Who are we?

Modern volcanological and volcano-geomorphological research started at the Department of Physical Geography of ELTE in the 1990s. On this page, we present the colleagues who have been - and are still - involved in this research, as well as the most important research projects of the last years.

Traditionally, the science of volcanology includes understanding the processes leading to, and those operating during, volcanic activity, and the setting and palaeo-geography of volcanism. Within volcanology, the reconstruction of primary (original) volcanic landforms created during volcanic activity and inferring their surface evolution is the subject of volcanic geomorphology (or volcano morphology).  In our department, this latter line of research had already appeared a long ago, and was later developed and applied in more detail in our own research.

In the Carpathian Basin and, within that, Hungary, we study volcanoes that went extinct for millions of years - at Ciomadul (Csomád) volcano in the Harghita Mts, for tens of thousands of years -, while abroad we work mainly on volcanoes that are active. The most important areas of the research conducted are: the Börzsöny-Visegrád Mountains, the Mátra Mountains, and the Eastern Carpathians; Italy (Etna, Lipari Islands), France (Auvergne), Canary Islands, Japan, Mexico, USA (Arizona), New Zealand and Chile/Argentina (Central Andes).