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Dr. Lóránd Silye

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This web page has not been updated since the former colleague left MARUM.

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