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 Personal informations:
Name: Péter Pongrácz
Citizenship: Hungarian
Positions and Employment:
1999-2006 Research Fellow, Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
2006-2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
2009- Associate Professor, Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Education:
MSc (biology), (Eötvös Loránd University 1994): The ontogeny of predator avoidance behaviour in pradise fish (Macropodus opercularis) larvae. (in Hungarian)
PhD (biology, ethology), (Eötvös Loránd University , 2000): The dynamic representation of the living elements of the environment - predator avoidance and conspecific recognition in the rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) (in Hungarian)
Teaching:
The ethology of predation (2+2)
Social learning (2+0)
Animal welfare (2+0)
Animal protection (2+0)
Ethology of wild animals of Hungary (2+0)
Applied ethology (2+0)
Applied ethology practice (0+2)
The evolution of communication (2+0)
Cognitive ethology (2+0)
Evolution of Canidae (2+0)
Human-animal interactions (2+0)
Ethology in practice (0+2)
Honors:
2002-2004 Post-doctoral Grant ‘Békéssy György’
2006-2008 Research Grant ‘Bolyai János’
2010-2013 Research Grant ‘Bolyai János’ (second time, only for the most excellent candidates)
Research Grants:
OTKA K82020 2010-2013 Dog vocalization – investigation of the structure, function and genetic background of an unusually variable communicative system. (Supported by the Ministry of Education of Hungary through the National Fund of Scientific Research) (as Project Manager)
OTKA T049615 2005-2008 Possibilities and restraints of inter- and heterospecific communication in dogs. (Supported by the Ministry of Education of Hungary through the National Fund of Scientific Research) (as co-investigator)
OTKA T047235 2004-2007 Dog vocalizations as specific means of communication evolved through domestication. (Supported by the Ministry of Education of Hungary through the National Fund of Scientific Research) (as Project Manager)
OTKA T043763 2003-2006 The dog as a model for human personality. (Supported by the Ministry of Education of Hungary through the National Fund of Scientific Research) (as co-investigator)
FKFP 0127/2001 2001-2003 Acoustic communication between humans and dogs. (Supported by the Fund for Research and Innovation of the Ministry of Education of Hungary) (as Project Manager)
EÜ261/2000 2000-2002 Social intelligence in assistant dogs. (Supported by the Ministry of Public Health of Hungary) (as co-investigator)
OTKA T029705 1999-2002 Social intelligence in dogs. (Supported by the Ministry of Education of Hungary through the National Fund of Scientific Research) (as co-investigator)
OTKA 1997-2000 The ontogeny of predator avoidance in rabbits. (Supported by the Ministry of Education of Hungary through the National Fund of Scientific Research) (as co-investigator)
Language skills:
Hungarian (native)
English
Russian
Membership:
1992- Hungarian Ethological Society, member
2006- Lecturer, Doctoral School of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University
2008- Member, Editorial board, J. of Vet. Behav.: Clinical Applications and Research (Elsevier)
2010- Member, Editorial board, Applied Animal Behaviour Science (Elsevier)
Office address:
Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Ethology
Budapest, Pázmány Péter s. 1/c, H-1117, Hungary
Tel: +36 1 3812179, Fax: +36 1 3812180,
e-mail: peter.celeste.pongracz(at)gmail(dot)com
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