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Edit Éva Farkas
Birth Date:1 May 1959
Birth Place:Budapest
Nationality:Hungarian
Fields:lichenology
Workplaces:Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research
Alma Mater:Eötvös Loránd University
Thesis Title:Lichenológiai vizsgálatok Budapesten éa a Pilis bioszféra Rezervátumban - elterjedés, bioindikáció (Lichenological investigations in the Pilis Biosphere Reserve in Budapest - distribution, bioindication)
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Thesis Year:1991
Author Abbrev Bot:Farkas
Spouse:László Sándor Lőkös
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Children:2

Edit Éva Farkas is a Hungarian lichenologist and mycologist at the Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research in Hungary. She is the author of at least 14 taxon names and author or co-author of over 148 scientific publications.

Education and personal life

She studied at Eötvös Loránd University public research university in Budapest.[1] She was awarded an MSc degree in 1982, with a thesis about the effects of air pollution on lichens, supervised by Klára Verseghy and her doctorate in 1987 for the thesis Lichenológiai vizsgálatok Budapesten éa a Pilis bioszféra Rezervátumban - elterjedés, bioindikáció (Lichenological investigations in the Pilis Biosphere Reserve in Budapest - distribution, bioindication). In 2013 she was awarded Dr. habil by Eötvös Loránd University. In 2016, she defended her academic doctoral title to become a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc); her thesis was titled Hungarian: A bioindikáció, a biodiverzitás és a kémiai diverzitás összefüggései a lichenológiában. Akadémiai nagydoktori értekezés .

She is married to László Sándor Lőkös, who is also a lichenologist. They have two children together.[2]

Research career

Since 1982 she has worked the Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary being promoted from a junior to senior researcher. She was part of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1982 and 2011.[3]

She is a lichenologist, predominantly a taxonomist using molecular, morphological and chemotaxonomic methods, and has identified many new species and taxa as well as new nomenclature combinations. Throughout her career she has also undertaken fieldwork especially on the effects of the environment, especially pollution, on lichens around Europe. During the 1980s she undertook fieldwork on foliose lichens in the (now) Czech Republic and Tanzania. She has also studied other tropical lichens. In the 1990s and early 2000s she worked extensively on crustose lichens. She spent 1992 at the Natural History Museum, London, collaborating with David J. Galloway and others.[4] In addition, her research concerns secondary metabolites within the lichen symbiosis, adopting new analytical methodologies as they became available during her career.[5] Together with Lőkös, they have characterised 17 new genera and 139 new taxa, and proposed more than 120 new nomenclature combinations. Edit Farkas is publishing the exsiccata Lichenes delicati exsiccati editae in memoriam Antonín Vězda (1920–2008).[6]

Honours

Calopadia editiae is a leaf-dwelling lichen that was named in her honour by former mentor Antonín Vězda.[7] In 2016 she was awarded the Boros Ádám Award jointly with Lőkös for their contribution to mapping and identification methods of lichens in Hungary, as well as teaching younger scientists.

Scientific publications

Farkas is the author or co-author of at least 148 scientific publications concerning lichens and lichenologists. The most significant include:

Notes and References

  1. Hertel . Hannes . Gartner . Georg . Lokos . Laszlo . Farkas . Edit . Forscher an Osterrichers Fletchtenflora/ Investigators of Austria's lichen flora . Stapfia . 2017 . 104 . 2 . 40 . 3 November 2023.
  2. Hertel . Hannes . Gartner . Georg . Lokos . Laszlo . Farkas . Edit . Forscher an Osterrichers Fletchtenflora/ Investigators of Austria's lichen flora . Stapfia . 2017 . 104 . 2 . 89 . 3 November 2023.
  3. Web site: Edit Farkas . Researchgate . 3 November 2023.
  4. Varga . N . Pifko . D . Kondratyuk . Sergij Y. . Kärnefelt . Ingvar . Thell . Arne . Hungarian lichenologists – a 60th birthday tribute. . Studia botanica hungarica . 2019 . 50 . 261–292 .
  5. Web site: FARKAS, EDIT, DSc . HUNREN . ELKH Centre for Ecological Research . 3 November 2023.
  6. Web site: Lichenes delicati exsiccati editae in memoriam Antonín Vězda (1920–2008): IndExs ExsiccataID=2147199807 . IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae . Botanische Staatssammlung München . 29 April 2024.
  7. 6 . Lumbsch . H.T. . Ahti . T. . Altermann . S. . De Paz . G.A. . Aptroot . A. . Arup . U. . Pena . A.B. . Bawingan . P.A. . Benatti . M.N. . Betancourt . L. . Bjork . C.R. . Boonpragob . K. . Brand . M. . Bungartz . F. . Caceres . M.E.S. . Candan . M. . Chaves . J.L. . Clerc . P. . Common . R. . Coppins . B.J. . Crespo . A. . Dal-Forno . M. . Divakar . P.K. . Duya . M.V. . Elix . J.A. . Elvebakk . A. . Fankhauser . J.D. . Farkas . E. . Ferraro . L.I. . Fischer . E. . Galloway . D.J. . Gaya . E. . Giralt . M. . Goward . T. . Grube . M. . Hafellner . J. . Hernandez . J.E. . Campos . M. D.H. . Kalb . K. . Karnefelt . I. . Kantvilas . G. . Killmann . D. . Kirika . P. . Knudsen . K. . Komposch . H. . Kondratyuk . S. . Lawrey . J.D. . Mangold . A. . Marcelli . M.P. . Mccune . B. . Messuti . M.I. . Michlig . A. . Gonzalez . R.M. . Moncada . B. . Naikatini . A. . Nelsen . M.P. . Ovstedal . D.O. . Palice . Z. . Papong . K. . Parnmen . S. . Perez-Ortega . S. . Printzen . C. . Rico . V.J. . Plata . E.R. . Robayo . J. . Rosabal . D. . Ruprecht . U. . Allen . N.S. . Sancho . L. . De Jesus . L.S. . Vieira . T.S. . Schultz . M. . Seaward . M.R.D. . Serusiaux . E. . Schmitt . I. . Sipman . H.J.M. . Sohrabi . M. . Sochting . U. . Sogaard . M.Z. . Sparrius . L.B. . Spielmann . A. . Spribille . T. . Sutjaritturakan . J. . Thammathaworn . A. . Thell . A. . Thor . G. . Thus . H. . Timdal . E. . Truong . C. . Turk . R. . Tenorio . L.U. . Upreti . D.K. . Van den Boom . P. . Rebuelta . M.V. . Wedin . M. . Will-Wolf . S. . Wirth . V. . Wirtz . N. . Yahr . R. . Yeshitela . K. . Ziemmeck . F. . Wheeler . T. . Lucking . R. . One hundred new species of lichenized fungi: a signature of undiscovered global diversity . Phytotaxa . 18 . 1 . 2011 . 10.11646/phytotaxa.18.1.1 . 27–28 .

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