name

Lajos ROZSA

nationality

Hungarian

born

Budapest, 1961

family

 

married to Judit VEGH,

children: Luca (1986), Jakab (1988) and Vilmos (2000)

Institute for Advanced Study – Collegium Budapest, fellowship

2006-2007

Széchenyi professorship

1999-2002

PhD in biology

1995

MSc in biology, Kossuth University, Debrecen

1985

Animal Ecology Research Group of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences & the Hungarian Natural History Museum

2003-

 

Veszprem University, Department of Zoology

1998-2003

Central Veterinary Institute

1998

University of Veterinary Science, Department of Parasitology and Zoology 

1987-1998

Veszprem University

gradual courses

 

Zootaxonomy,    2000-03

Comparative anatomy,    1998-2003

Evolution and ecology of parasites,    1998-2003

Biology,    1998-2003

Eötvös Loránd University

PhD course

Evolution and ecology of parasites,    1998-

 

University of Veterinary Science,

gradual courses

 

Zoology (in Hungarian),    1989-1998

Zoology (in English),    1993-1998

Zootaxonomy,    1995-1997

Evolution and ecology of parasites,    1998

Voted to be the 'best lecturer' by students 3 times

focus of interest:

• evolution and ecology of interactions between host animals – such as birds or humans – and their contagious pathogens, and bird-lice interactions in particular;

• transmission of contagious pathogens to conspecifics as a form of aggression ('spite') in animals and humans, the history of biological warfare;

• mechanisms of human evolution: eg. fetal/maternal conflict in placental mammals, the evolution of human intelligence under selective pressure exerted by pathogens.

methods: developing hypotheses, individual-based simulations, comparative analyses

list of publications

Hungarian Biological Society, president of the Ecology Section

2006-

Hungarian Acedemy of Sciences, Dept of Biology, member of the Zoological Committee

1999-

Hungarian Society of Parasitologists, member of the presidency

1999-