MINSPEC - Izabella Farkas

Chair of Mineral Spectroscopy
(Marie Curie Chair of Excellence)

Mag. Izabella Farkas
(Short-term visiting Ph.D. student)

Roomnummer: 2C379
Phone number: (+431) 4277 53280
farkasizabella[at]yahoo.com

2005 -	PhD student, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
2004-2005	MSc studies in Applied Mineralogy and Gemmology, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Biology-Geology
2000-2005	Biology-Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Biology-Geology
1998-2002	Geography, specialization in Geomorphology-Pedology, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Geography

Scholarships:
2008	CEEPUS Scholarship at the Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography, University of Vienna (1^st March - 30^th June)
2004 - 2005	Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary, at the Department of Mineralogy, Eötvös L. University, Budapest (30^th September - 30^th July)
2004	Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary, at the Department of Mineralogy, Eötvös L. University, Budapest (1^st March - 30^th April)

Publications and Abstracts:

Farkas, I. M., Pekker, P., Weiszburg, T., Kuzmann, E. (2007): Environmental mineral formation on an old pyrite bearing mine waste dump in Mátra Mts., Hungary; Frontiers in Mineral Sciences 2007, Cambridge, 26–28 June (Great Britain)

Farkas, I. M., Pekker, P., Földing, G. (2007): Environmental effects of Bányabérc pyritiferous waste dump by mineralogical analysis, Symposium of Young Researchers, 30–31th of March, 2007, Bakonybél (Hungary)

Farkas, I. M., Weiszburg, T.G. (2006): Mineralogical investigation of settled and airborne dust collected from Cluj County, Romania. Bulletin of Hungarian Geological Society, 136/4, pp. 547–572. (in Hungarian with English abstract).

Farkas, I. M., Weiszburg, G. T. & Simihaian, M. (2005): Mineralogical composition and heavy metal content of settled dust from industrial areas and roadsides of Cluj County, Romania. Environmental Research, Protection and Management Conference, 13–15th October 2005, Agnita-Sibiu (Romania), Abstract Book, p. 57.

Farkas, Izabella M., Weiszburg, Tamás G. (2005): Compositional investigation on settled and airborne dusts with mineralogical methods. XII. Hungarian–Italian Symposium on Spectrochemistry: Environmental Pollution and Human Health, 23–27 October 2005, Pécs (Hungary), Abstract Book, p. 100.

Links:

Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie

Universität Wien

Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung

FP6 program: Marie Curie actions NEW: FP7 program