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Dr. Lóránd Silye

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Room:	MARUM II, 1030

Research Interests

• Red Sea (palaeo)oceanography via benthic foraminiferal proxies
• Nummulite banks in the Paleogen of the Transylvanian Basin
• Lower Jurassic foraminiferal assemblages
• Sedimentology of deep-water depositional (palaeo)environments

Current Project
Quaternary environmental changes reflected by central Red Sea deep-water benthic foraminifera more...

Professional Experience

• since September 2015
  Postdoc (Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers)
  AG Micropaleontology-Paleoceanography, MARUM, University of Bremen
• October 2013 - September 2014
  Postdoc (Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers)
  AG Micropaleontology-Paleoceanography, MARUM, University of Bremen
• since October 2012
  Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• February 2009 - October 2012
  Teaching Assistant, Department of Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• October 2008 - February 2009
  Research assistant, Integrated Geological Research Center, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• October 2004 - October 2008
  PhD student (with teaching duties), Department of Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Academic Background

• PhD in Micropaleontology/Geology, Department of Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 2010
• Affiliate Student for 1 term, Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, UK, January - June 2004
• M.Sc. in Integrated Geological Studies, Department of Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 2004
• B.Sc. in Geology-Geography, Department of Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 2003

Selected Publications

• Kövecsi, Sz.-A., Silye, L., Less, Gy., Filipescu, S., 2016. Odd partnerships among middle Eocene (Bartonian) Nummulites: Examples from the Transylvanian (Romania) and Dorog (Hungary) Basins. Marine Micropaleontology, 127: 86-98.
• Silye, L., Colin, J.-P.; Codrea, V., 2014. Globotalicypridea mirabilis sp. nov. – the first non-marine ostracod taxon from the Upper Cretaceous of the Haţeg Basin, Romania. Annales de Paléontologie 100(3): 273-280.
• Szakács, A., Pécskay, Z., Silye, L., Balogh, K., Vlad, D., Fülöp, A., 2012. On the age of the Dej Tuff, Transylvanian Basin (Romania). Geologica Carpathica 63(2): 139-148.
• Bălc, R., Silye, L., Zaharia, L., 2012. Calcareous nannofossils and sedimentary facies in the Upper Cretaceous Bozeş Formation (Southern Apuseni Mountains, Romania). Studia UBB Geologia 57(1): 23-32.
• Silye, L., Nagy, J., Filipescu, S., 2011. Ammodiscus aff. gullmarensis in the Sarmatian (Middle Miocene) of the Transylvanian Basin, Romania. In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera, Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication 16, 311-315.
• Krézsek, C., Filipescu, S., Silye, L., Maţenco, L, Doust, H., 2010. Miocene facies associations and sedimentary evolution of the Southern Transylvanian Basin (Romania): Implications for hydrocarbon exploration. Marine and Petroleum Geology 27(1): 191-214.
• Kaminski, M. A., Silye, L., Kender, S., 2009. Miocene deep-water agglutinated foraminifera from the Lomonosov Ridge and the opening of the Fram Strait. Micropaleontology 55(2-3): 117-135.
• Filipescu, S., Silye, L., 2008. New Paratethyan biozones of planktonic foraminifera described from the Middle Miocene of the Transylvanian Basin (Romania). Geologica Carpathica 59(6): 537-544.
• Kaminski, M.A., Silye, L., Kender, S., 2005. Miocene deep-water agglutinated foraminifera from ODP Hole 909C: Implications for the paleoceanography of the Fram Strait area, Greenland Sea. Micropaleontology 51(5): 373-403.

Scholarships

• German Language Fellowship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, June - September, 2013
• PhD scholarship awarded by the Romanian Ministry of Education, October 1, 2004 - October 1, 2008
• CEEPUS Scholarship for research stay at the Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, April, 2006
• Stanislaw Geroch Memorial Stipend (Stypendium im. S. Gerocha) awarded by the Grzybowski Foundation, Poland, 2004
• Erasmus Scholarship - exchange student at the Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, UK, 12/01/2004- 12/06/2004
• Study in another Higher Education Institute Stipend awarded by the Hungarian Government for the period of 01/04/2002-01/06/2002 - visiting student at the Department of Physical and Historical Geology, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest

Awards

• William V. Sliter Research Award offered by the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research in 2005
• Special prize, National Scientific Conference of Students, Paleontology Section, organized by the University of Miskolc, April 14-16, 2003, Miskolc, Hungary
• 3rd Prize, 4th National Meeting of Geologist Students, Paleontology – Stratigraphy Section, organized by the Cluj Student Chapter of AAPG, May 9-10, 2003, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 1st Prize, 4th Scientific Meeting of the Hungarian Students from Transylvania, Geology Section, organized by the Hungarian Student Union of Kolozsvár, December 7-8, 2001, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 2nd Prize, 2nd National Meeting of Geologist Students, Paleontology – Stratigraphy Section, organized by the Cluj Student Chapter of AAPG, March 23-25, 2001, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Memberships

• Antal Koch Geological Society
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists
• Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research
• Romanian Society of Paleontologists
• Romanian Geological Society
• The Grzybowski Foundation