PÉTER SIPOS

PhD

senior research fellow

scientific secretary

phone: +361 309 2600 / ext 1104

fax: +361 319 3137

e-mail: sipos@geochem.hu

room:  210

Research interest

Environmental geochemistry, soil geochemistry:

- Distribution and mobility of heavy metals in soils

- Sorption of heavy metals in soils

- Sorption capacity of soil mineral phases

- Fe-rich nodules in soils

- Geochemistry of urban dust 

Curriculum vitae

Birth date and place: 1975, Gyöngyös

Employment: Institute for Geochemical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1998

Present position: senior research fellow

Education:

-M.Sc., geology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1998; dissertation topic: Mineralogical and petrographical studies of epithermal ore indications at Aranyosbérc, Mátrakeresztes, W Mátra Mts., NE Hungary

-Ph.D., geology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2005; theses topic: Study of geochemical factors controlling the migration and immobilization of heavy metals in soils (Theses PDF)

Current professional affiliations:

Member of the Hungarian Geological Society from 1993

Member of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health from 2000

Member of the European Clay Group Association from 2002

Member of the Environmental Geochemical Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 2003

Member of the Hungarian Society of Soil Science from 2005

Awards and honours:

2005: Young Scientist Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2005: Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér award 

Publications

Full list of publications

Sipos P, Németh T, Kovács Kis V, Mohai I Sorption of copper, zinc and lead on soil mineral phases. Chemosphere 73: 461-469 2008

Sipos P Mobilization conditions of lead in forest soils from the Cserhát Mts, NE Hungary. Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica 47: 53-59 2007

Németh T, Sipos P Characterization of clay minerals in brown forest soil profiles (Luvisols) of Cserhát Mountains (North Hungary). Agrokémia és Talajtan 55: 39-48 2006

Sipos P, Németh T, Mohai I, Dódony I Effect of soil composition on adsorption of lead as reflected by a study on a natural forest soil profile. Geoderma 124: 363-374 2005

Sipos P, Németh T, Mohai I Distribution and possible immobilization of lead in a forest soil (Luvisol) profile. Environmental Geochemistry and Health 27: 1-10 2005

Sipos P Geological and pedogenic effects on heavy metal distributions in forest soils from the Cserhát Mts. and the Karancs area, NE Hungary. Acta Geologica Hungarica 47: 411-429 2004