Role at ANSTO
Dr. Reka-H Fulop is an Earth Scientist specialising in cosmogenic nuclide geochronology. She completed her PhD at The University of Glasgow in Scotland, UK, and spent three years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Universität zu Köln, Germany, before moving to Australia in 2013. She worked at ANSTO through several research positions at the University of Wollongong since 2015 where she established an in-situ cosmogenic C-14 laboratory. In 2020 she joined ANSTO as a Research Scientist in an ongoing position. Reka is involved in several projects spanning a range of disciplines, including studying Quaternary deglaciation histories – including those of Antarctic glaciers, quantifying sediment transit times and landscape denudation rates across the Australian continent, and dating the formation of rock-art shelters in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Reka enjoys participating in remote fieldtrips and believes that these are an integral and important part in the development of an Earth Scientist.
Expertise
Cosmogenic exposure age dating (10Be, 26Al and in-situ 14C), landscape evolution, glacial chronologies, radiocarbon dating, Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
Qualifications & Achievements
· Doctor of Philosophy in Earth Sciences (2012), Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, The University of Glasgow.
· Graduate Certificate of Graduate Teaching Assistant (2008), The Higher Education Academy, UK
· MSc in Geography (2006), Graduate Certificate in Hydrological Sciences, Graduate Certificate in Regional Planning, Faculty of Science, Eötvös-Loránd University, Hungary.
Committees, Affiliations & memberships
- Honorary Senior Research Fellow of University of Wollongong since 2020
- Organising Committee Member for AMS-15 International Conference in 2022
- Guest Editor of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Journal in 2022
- Invited talks
- 2015: The National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City Campus at the Institute of Geology, and at the Juriquilla Campus at the Centre of Geosciences.
- 2022: Goldschmidt Conference , Hawaii
- Supervisor of two current PhD students (and one completed).
- Member of GSA (since 2007), Geochemical Society (since 2008), AQUA (since 2015)
- Since 2014 she secured 65,000 AUD in several small grants through ANSTO and UOW
- Outreach
- Member of the AINSE Mentorship Program in 2021, 2022
In 2020, she featured in ABC Illawarra Radio interview with Jake Cupitt discussing sediment transit times in the Murray Darling Basin.
In 2012, she participated in a television science documentary titled Geheimnisseim Eis der Erde - Expedition in die sibirische Arktis, 2012, on an expedition to the Lena Delta produced by German broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg RBB (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anqG2vyr8-Q).
In 2012, she co-authored a newspaper article for the Cape Times, a South African morning newspaper with a daily readership of over 200,000. The article (Mountain vs. Cape Doctor by Codilean, Fülöp, and de Wit) presents the results of a study investigating erosion rates on Table Mountain