Our colleagues

Dr. Sándor Hornok

Dr. Sándor Hornok graduated as a veterinarian in 1994. Currently he is a full professor at the Department of Parasitology and Zoology of the University of Veterinary Medicine (Budapest, Hungary). His main research interests include the taxonomy and molecular phylogenetics of ticks and other blood-sucking arthropods, their spatiotemporal occurrence, and the epidemiology of vector-borne pathogens.

Dr. Attila D. Sándor

Dr. Attila D. Sándor graduated as a biologist in 1998. Currently he is a principal investigator at the Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases of the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj, Romania. His main research interests include the ecology and biogeography of ticks and other ectoparasites, their host-parasite relationships with vertebrates and the epidemiology of vector-borne pathogens.

Dr. Sándor Szekeres

Dr. Sándor Szekeres graduated as a biologist in 2013. Currently, he is a senior lecturer at the Department of Parasitology and Zoology of the University of Veterinary Medicine (Budapest, Hungary). His main research topic is the tick diversity and tick-borne pathogens of predatory and other middle-sized mammals.

Dr. Gergő Keve

Dr. Gergő Keve graduated as a veterinarian in 2021. He currently works at the Department of Parasitology and Zoology of the University of Veterinary Medicine (Budapest, Hungary) as a veterinary scientist. He is also doing his PhD studies there. His primary research area is the epidemiology of bloodsuckers that enter Hungary with migratory birds and the pathogens they transmit.

Dr. Zsuzsa Kalmár

Dr. Zsuzsa Kalmár graduated as a molecular biologist and in 2015 obtained a doctoral degree in Veterinary Medicine. She currently works as a Scientific Researcher at the Department of Microbiology of the Veterinary University from Cluj-Napoca (Romania). At the same time, she is involved in various research projects at the Medical University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) and at the Department of Parasitology and Zoology of the University of Veterinary Medicine (Budapest, Hungary). Her main research interests include the study of ticks and tick-borne pathogens, as well as the study of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Denis Fedorov

Denis Fedorov graduated as a veterinarian in 2019. Currently he works in the "HUN-REN–UVMB Climate Change: New Blood-Sucking Parasites and Vector-Borne Pathogens" Research Group, Budapest, Hungary. He is also a PhD student at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ZIN-RAS: St. Petersburg, Russia). His main research interests include taxonomy and molecular phylogenetics of ticks, their geographical, biotopic distribution, and host-parasite relations, and the epidemiology of vector-borne pathogens.

Nóra Takács

Nóra Takács graduated as a biochemical engineer MSc. in 2012. Currently she is working as departmental engineer at the Department of Parasitology and Zoology of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest, Hungary since 2013. She has practical experience in molecular biological methods. Her research interests are epidemiology and ecology of hard ticks and tick-borne pathogens and other vectors and vector-borne diseases of domesticated and wild animals.

Regina Kovács

Regina Kovács graduated in 2022 at János Selye University as German Language and Reformed Religious Education teacher. She is currently an administrator at the University of Veterinary Medicine, as well as the main liaison and administrator in the HUN-REN–UVMB Climate Change: New Blood-sucking Parasites and Vector-borne Pathogens Research Group. In her free time she likes to attend on Children Camps, and she works as volunteer at the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid.

Dr. Andor Pitó

Dr. Andor Pitó graduated as a veterinarian in 2024. Currently works at the Department of Parasitology and Zoology of the University of Veterinary Medicine (Budapest, Hungary) as a veterinary scientist and doing his PhD studies there. His primary research area is the epidemiology of bloodsuckers of wild birds furthermore the pathogens that they transmit. In his free time, he ringing wild birds for scientific purposes all over Hungary.

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