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Biography: |
Gábor Kocsy was born in Devecser, Hungary in 1964. He is married, and father of 3 children. He obtained his M.Sc. in biology at the Loránd E?tv?s University of Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences in Budapest, Hungary in 1989. The topic of the M.Sc. thesis was the study of the effect of osmotic stress in wheat tissue culture. He prepared his PhD in plant physiology between 1992-1995 at the University of Berne, Institute of Plant Physiology in Switzerland. He studied the role of the antioxidants in the response of maize to chilling. He obtained the degree doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2009. In his thesis for this degree he investigated the abiotic stress response in cereals using physiological, biochemical and molecular biological approaches. He is working at the Agricultural Institute of the Centre for Agricultural Research of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Martonvásár, Hungary, since 1989 where he is a scientific consultant since 1989. His research field is the study of the redox control of development and stress response in plants by physiological, biochemical and molecular biological methods. He has the following scientific parameters: cumulative IF – 72.45, independent citations – 790, H-index – 18. He received the following professional prizes: 2nd prize at the National Conference of Students in 1988; 2nd prize of the Veszprem Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1991; prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for Young Scientists in 1998; 1st prize of the Frank-Helianthus Fund in 2002. He participated in the practical education of the students at the Institute of Plant Physiology of the University of Berne (1992-1995) and at the Agricultural Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1995-). He gives seminars in stress physiology at the University of Veszprém (1998-). He was the supervisor of 3 BSc-, 9 MSc and 2 PhD-students since 2001. He received a Ph.D.-scholarship at the University of Berne, Switzerland (C. Brunold, 1992-1995), a COST-scholarship at the University of Berne, Switzerland (C. Brunold, 1995, 1 month), a DAAD-scholarship at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (L. Nover, 1998, 3 months), a Bolyai János Research Fellowship (1998-2001), a TéT-fellowship at ARC Roodeplaat, South Africa (J. A. de Ronde, 2000 an 2001, each 1 month), an E?tv?s scholarship at the University of Tucson, USA (J.-K. Zhu, 2005, 3 months) and a fellowship from the Plant Resource Program, IPK, Gatersleben, Germany (N. Stein, 2005, 10 months). He was the president of the Biothechnological and Plant Physiological Working Group of the Veszprém Committee of Hung. Acad. Sciences between 2000 and 2011. He is member of the Society of Hungarian Plant Biologists, the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biologists and the Society of Hungarian Entomologists. He was principal investigator in 6 national scientific grants and in 6 bilateral international research projects. He is editor in the “Advances in Agriculture” and “The Scientific World Journal”. He is regularly reviewer of national and international research grants and scientific publications. |