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The Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy has five permanent and three part-time faculty members, all of whom are actively involved in both the Master's and the Ph.D. programs:
Brandon Anthony, PhD, MSc (both from Central European University): social impacts of protected areas; linkages between rural development and biodiversity conservation; local resource management; biological monitoring; amphibian ecology and monitoring.
Alexios Antypas, Ph.D. (University of Washington, Seattle), MSc (State University of New York): Director of Center for Environmental Policy and Law: international and transboundary environmental governance, natural resources policy and environmental justice.
Ed Bellinger, Ph.D., BSc (both London University), FRSA, part-time : Transboundary problems of environmental standards harmonization; problems of water quality.
Aleh Cherp, Ph.D., MSc (both University of Manchester): Coordinator of MESPOM Consortium: Environmental assessment; sustainable development strategies; environment in transition; corporate environmental management.
Zoltan Illes, Ph.D. (BME, Budapest), part-time: Soil contamination by industrial chemicals; analysis of pesticide and heavy metal content in water and soil; influence of pesticides on soil bacteria; soil ecosystems; environmental protection, management and policies.
Ruben Mnatsakanian, Ph.D. (Moscow State University): Head of Department, Director of UNEP GEO Collaborating Center: State of the environment and pollution problems in the countries of the region; environmental policy; global environmental issues, sources of environmental information.
Tamara Steger, Ph.D. (Syracuse University), MSc (University of Washington): Director of the Environmental Justice Program (EJP): Environmental Protection, Human Rights, and Health; Environment and Poverty; Environmental Conflict Management; and Environmental Civic Engagement
Diana Urge-Vorsatz, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley and UCLA), MSc (ELTE, Budapest), Energy efficiency and renewable energy sources; energy policies for economies in transition; CO2 emission mitigation; climate change policy; EU enlargement and sustainable energy policy.
Alan Watt, Director of PhD program, Ph.D. (Warwick University): environmental philosophy and political theory; academic writing for environmental sciences and policy.
Prominent visiting professors participate in research and teaching at the Department.
The department also employs administrative as well as research and teaching staff: Krisztina Szabados (Coordinator), Irina Herczeg (Administrative Assistant) and Viktor Lagutov (Systems Laboratory Manager and Instructor).
