Research interests

• structural geology
• paleostress field, fault geometry in field and on seismic sections
• paleomagnetism and deformation
• neotectonics, landscape evolution
• geological mapping
• tectonic evolution of the Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic belts
• geochronology applied to structural analysis
• basin analysis
• interaction of tectonics and sedimentation
  

Research projects (Ongoing projects)

• 2014-2018 Correlation of tectonic units, deformation events and facies belts in the Pannonian-Alpine-Dinaridic domain: first step towards quantitative tectonic reconstruction, OTKA K 113013. Project leader
• 2013-2017 The Balaton Line: geophysical surveys of a young strike-slip fault zone and their geodynamic interpretation, OTKA K 109255. Participant
• 2013-2016 Time relations of large scale displacements and internal deformations of tectonic units as manifested in paleomagnetic rotations, brittle structures and magnetic fabric, OTKA K 105245. Participant
• 2012-2016 Complex geochemical, paleoclimatological and tectonic investigations on continental carbonate deposits in Hungary, OTKA NK 101664. Participant
• 2011-2016 SourceSink Hungary - Quantification of mass transfer from mountain ranges to active sedimentary basins of Hungary: integrated source-to-sink studies, OTKA NK 83400. Participant

Closed research projects (Hungarian Science Found OTKA)

• 2010-2014 Miocene-Pliocene deformation and sedimentation of the Pannonian Basin: constraints from structural, sedimentological and geochronological studies. OTKA K 81530. Project leader
• 2005-2008 Structural geological research of the Rudabánya and Aggtelek Hills, OTKA K 48824. Project leader.
• 2005-2008 Motion history of the Transdanubian Range and its neighbourhood between 50 and 160 million years: integrated paleomagnetic, structural and sedimentological-paleogeographical research, OTKA K 49616. Participant
• 2003-2007 Cenozoic structural evolution and its connection to sedimentation in the Vértes and in its forelands, OTKA K T42799. Project leader.
• 2001-2003 Post-Badenian horizontal motions in the Carpathian basin: complex paleomagnetic and structural study, OTKA K 34364. Participant
• 1999-2003 Late Neogene – Quaternary structural evolution and landscape evolution in the Gödöllő Hills and their neighbourhood. OTKA K T029798. Project leader.
• 1997-2000 Structural and magmatic processes in the evolution of the sedimentary basins: quantitative modelling and hydrocarbon potential in the Pannonian Basin, Felsőoktatási Kutatási és Fejlesztési Pályázat. Project leader. 
• 1997-2000 Cenozoic motions of the Transdanubian Range with respect to their neighbouring units: complex paleomagnetic and microtectonic study. OTKA K 022119. Participant
• 1996-1999 Palaeozoic - Mesozoic geodynamic evolution of the structural units in the Bükk – South Gemer region, OTKA K T019431. Participant
• 1996-1998 Quantitative neotectonics, OTKA K T019393. Participant
• 1995-1997 Global and regional researches for preparation of mono- and multimedia educational packages, softwares, Felsőoktatási Programfinanszírozási Pályázat.
• 1994-1996 Cenozoic stress fields in Hungary and their connections to the geodynamics of the Carpathian-Pannonian region, OTKA F014186. Project leader.
• 1994-1996 Application of GIS methods in the structural research of the Gerecse Hills, Alapítvány a Magyar Felsőoktatásért és Kutatásért. Project leader.
• 1994-1995 Structural geological mapping of the Gerecse Hills, Művelődési és Közoktatási Minisztérium K+F pályázat. Project leader.

Research in international co-operation

• 2009–2010 Fault-controlled diagenetic stages at the base of Silica, Martonyi and Telekesoldal Nappes, Inner Western Carpathians, Bilateral Cooperation S&T with Slovakian Akademy of Sciences. Participant
• 2008-2009 Role of deflation in the Quaternary landscape evolution of the Transdanubian Range and its foreland – age determinations using terrestrial in situ produced cosmogenic nuclides. Bilateral Scientific and Technological Co-operation France-Hungary. Participant
• 2007-2009 Structural analysis of the Carpathians and the Pannonian Basin. Polish-Hungarian Inter-academic Scientific Exchange Program. Participant
• 2007-2009 Stratigraphy and evolution of the Thrace Basin, Turkey, Bilateral S&T Co-operation, Slovenia–Hungary., Turkey-Hungary. Participant
• 2006-2007 Structural geological investigations in the Sultanat of Oman, MOL Ltd., Hungary. Participant
• 2002 Workshop on „Application of GPS in plate tectonics, in research on fossil energy resources and in earthquake hazard assessment”. Nemzeti Kutatási és Technológiai Hivatal. Participant
• 2001-2003 Magmatizmus, metamorfózis és deformáció ÉK Szlovéniában és DNy Magyarországon. Bilateral Cooperation, Slovenia–Hungary, Bilateral S&T Co-operation, Slovenia–Hungary TÉT, SLO-15/2000. Project leader. Project leader.
• 2000-2004 Integrated Solid Earth Sciences (ISES). Participant, visiting researcher at VU, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1999-2000 Miocene-Pliocene geology in Slovenia and Hungary. Bilateral Cooperation, Slovenia Structural and magmatic processes in the evolution of the sedimentary basins: quantitative modelling and hydrocarbon potential in the Pannonian Basin Hungary, Bilateral S&T Co-operation, Slovenia–Hungary TÉT, SLO 6-98. Project leader.
• 1995-1996 Paleomagnetic, tectonic, stratigraphic correlation of Tertiary formations in Slovenia and Hungary along the Periadriatic-mid-Hungarian tectonic zone. Bilateral S&T Co-operation, Slovenia–Hungary. Participant
• 1994-1996 Environmental changes in Nigeria. Wolkswagen Foundation. Participant
• 1994-1995 Integrated Basin Studies (IBS). Participant

Professional affiliations

• Geological Society of America GSA
• American Geophysical Union AGU
• International Association of Sedimentologists IAS
• Central European Tectonic Studies Groups CETEG
• Geological Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Hungarian Geological Society MFT
• Union of Hungarian Geophysicists MGE
• Editorial board of the Földtani Közlöny (Bulletin of the Hungarian Geological Society)
• Hungarian Stratigraphical Committee
  

Awards

• 1987 Tokody László award for publication, Eötvös University
• 1992 Semsey Andor award for publication, Hungarian Geological Society
• 1993 Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Foundation, award for publication
• 1995 Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Foundation, award for publication
• 2000 Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Foundation, award for publication
• 1997–2001 Széchenyi Professorial Fellowship
• 2001–2004 Bolyai János Fellowship, HAS
• 2006–2009 Bolyai János Fellowship, HAS
• 2006 Bohdan Świderski Award for 2005, Galicia Tectonic Group
• 2009 Szabó József award, Map and explanatory booklet of the Vértes Hills, Geological Society of Hungary, Hungarian Geological Society
• 2014 Hungarian Academy of Sciences Publication Award
  
  

Selected publications

Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Braucher, R., Novothny, Á., Csillag, G., Fodor, L., Molnár, G., Madarász, B., Arnold, M., Aumaître, G., Bourlès, D., Keddadouche, K. (2016): Tectonic and climatic forcing on terrace formation: coupling in situ produced 10Be depth profiles and luminescence approach, Danube River, Central Europe, Hungary. Quaternary Science Reviews 131, 127–147.       

Danisík, M., Fodor, L. Dunkl, I., Gerdes, A., Csizmeg, J., Hámor-Vidó, M., Evans, N.J. (2015): A multi-system geochronology in the Ad-3 borehole, Pannonian Basin (Hungary) with implications for dating volcanic rocks by low-temperature thermochronology and for interpretation of (U–Th)/He data. — Terra Nova, 4, 258–269, 29 May 2015, doi: 10.1111/ter.12155.       

Lukács, R., Harangi Sz., Bachmann, O., Guillong, M., Danišík, M., Buret, Y., von Quadt, A., Dunkl, I., Fodor, L., Sliwinski, J., Soós, I., Szepesi, J. (2015): Zircon geochronology and geochemistry to constrain the youngest eruption events and magma evolution of the Mid-Miocene ignimbrite flare-up in the Pannonian basin, eastern-central Europe. — Contribution to Mineralogy and Petrology, 170, 52, 26pp. DOI 10.1007/s00410-015-1206-8       

Petrik, A., Beke, B., Fodor, L. (2014): Combined analysis of faults and deformation bands reveals the Cenozoic structural evolution of the southern Bükk foreland (Hungary). — Tectonophysics 633, 43–62.       

Fodor, L., Sztanó, O., Kövér, Sz. (2013): Pre-conference field trip: Mesozoic deformation of the northern Transdanubian Range (Gerecse and Vértes Hills). — Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica, Field Guide Series, Vol. 31, pp. 1–34. (Department of Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Petrology, University of Szeged.       

Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger Zs., Braucher, R., Csillag, G. Fodor, L. I., Dunai, T. J., Bada, G., Bourlés, D., Müller, P. (2011): Dating Pleistocene aeolian landforms in Hungary, Central Europe, using in situ produced cosmogenic 10Be. — Quaternary Geochronology, 6, 6, 515–529. doi:10.1016/j.quageo.       

Sebe, K., Csillag, G., Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Fodor, L., Thamó-Bozsó, E., Müller, P., Braucher, R. (2011): Wind erosion under cold climate: A Pleistocene periglacial mega-yardang system in Central Europe (Western Pannonian Basin, Hungary). — Geomorphology, 134, 3-4, 470–482 doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.08.003       

Haas J., Budai T., Csontos L., Fodor L., Konrád Gy. (2010): Magyarország pre-kainozoos földtani térképe 1:500000 (Pre-Cenozoic geological map of Hungary, 1:5000000). — Magyar Állami Földtan Intézet.       

Kövér, Sz., Fodor, L., Judik, K., Németh, T., Balogh, K., Kovács, S. (2009): Deformation history and nappe stacking in Rudabánya Hills (Inner Western Carpathians) unravelled by structural geological, metamorphic petrological and geochronological studies. — Geodinamica Acta 22, 3–29.       

Fodor, L. I., Gerdes, A., Dunkl, I., Koroknai, B., Pécskay, Z., Trajanova, M., Horváth, P., Vrabec, M., Jelen, B., Balogh, K., Frisch, W. (2008): Miocene emplacement and rapid cooling of the Pohorje pluton at the Alpine-Pannonian-Dinaric junction: a geochronological and structural study. — Swiss Journal of Earth Sciences 101 Supplement 1, 255–271. DOI 10.1007/s00015-008-1286-9       

Fodor L., Csillag G., Lantos Z., Budai T., Kercsmár Zs., Selmeczi I. (2008): A Vértes hegység földtani térképe, 1:50000. (Geological Map of the Vértes Hills, 1:50000) — Magyar Állami Földtani Intézet, Budapest.       

Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs., Fodor, L. I., Horváth, E. (2007): Neotectonics and Quaternary landscape evolution of the Gödöllő Hills, Central Pannonian Basin, Hungary. — Global and Planetary Change 58 (1–4), 181–196.       

Fodor, L., Bada, G., Csillag, G., Horváth, E., Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zs. Palotás, K., Síkhegyi, F., Timár, G., Cloetingh, S., Horváth, F. (2005): An outline of neotectonic structures and morphotectonics of the western and central Pannonian basin. — Tectonophysics 410, 15–41.       

Fodor L., Turki, S. M., Dalob H., Al-Gerbi A. (2005): Fault-related folds and along-dip segmentation of breaching faults: syn-diagenetic deformation in the south-western Sirt basin, Libya. — Terra Nova 17, 2, 121–128.       

Márton, E. & Fodor, L. (2003): Tertiary paleomagnetic results and structural analysis from the Transdanubian Range (Hungary); sign for rotational disintegration of the Alcapa unit. — Tectonophysics 363, 201–224.       

Fodor, L. & Koroknai, B. (2000): Ductile deformation and revised lithostratigraphy of the Martonyi Subunit (Torna Unit, Rudabánya Mts.), northeastern Hungary. — Geologica Carpathica 51, 6, 355–369.       

Fodor, L., Csontos, L., Bada, G., Györfi, I. & Benkovics, L. (1999): Tertiary tectonic evolution of the Pannonian basin system and neighbouring orogens: a new synthesis of paleostress data. – In: Durand, B., Jolivet, L., Horváth, F. & Séranne, M. (eds): The Mediterranean Basins: Tertiary extension within the Alpine Orogen. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 156, 295–334.       

Fodor, L., Jelen, B., Márton, E., Skaberne, D., Čar, J. & Vrabec, M. (1998). Miocene-Pliocene tectonic evolution of the Slovenian Periadriatic Line and surrounding area – implication for Alpine Carpathian extrusion models. — Tectonics 17, 690–709.       

Fodor, L. (1995): From transpression to transtension: Oligocene-Miocene structural evolution of the Vienna basin and the Eastern Alpine-Western Carpathian junction. — Tectonophysics 242, 151–182.       

Fodor, L., Magyari, A., Kázmér, M. & Fogarasi, A. (1992): Gravity-flow dominated sedimentation on the Buda paleoslope (Hungary). Record of Late Eocene continental escape of the Bakony Unit. — Geologische Rundschau 81, 695–716.