ISTVÁN FÓRIZS
PhD
senior research fellow
Contacts
  • +36 1 319 2600 / 1151
  • +36 1 319 3137
  • forizs.istvan at csfk.hun-ren.hu
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Place and date of birth
    Vasad, 1958
Qualifications
  • 1996 PhD Isotope Hydrogeochemistry, Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen. Title: Origin of groundwaters and determination of recent shallow groundwater component by stable isotope measurements (in Hungarian with English abstract)
  • 1983 MSc physicist, Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen
Employment
  • Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, since 1983
Main fields of research
  • Isotope hydrogeochemistry:
    • The origin and mixing processes of groundwaters determined by environmental isotopes and chemical data
    • Investigation of the origin of thermal waters in Hungary
    • Study the dynamics of the bank filtered water resources of the Danube River by means of stable isotope measurements
    • Vulnerability study of water resources in geologically vulnerable environment
  • Archaeometry (archaeological geochemistry):
    • Provenance and making technology of glass objects from the Scythian, Celtic, Sarmatian, Avar and Hungarian Period; identification of the applied raw materials, colorants and decolorants
Research projects
  • NKFI K128237; 2018-2023; investigator; The Late Roman fortress at Ságvár – Archaeological research 1971–1979 (archaeometric study of glass)
  • 2020-2020; principal investigator; Archaeometric analysis of glass beads from the Ápádian age cemetry at Mesteri-Intapuszta. Part I
  • 2014- ; co-principal investigator; Archaeometric study of the Seuso treasure, Hungary
  • RER/8/016; 2009-2011; scientific coordinator; Using Environmental Isotopes for Evaluation of Streamwater/ Groundwater Interactions in Selected Aquifers in the Danube Basin (International Atomic Energy Agency)
  • OTKA K 60921; 2006-2011; principal investigator; Origin of water and carbon dioxide of the thermal karst waters around Budapest
  • 1998-2002; principal investigator; The origin and dynamics of the bank filtered water resources of the Danube River by means of environmental isotopes
  • OTKA T 035032; 2001-2004; principal investigator; Stable isotope study of recent and fossil shells of alluvial molluscs in Hungary
  • 1997-2001; principal investigator; Study of water movements related to salinization on the area of Hortobágy (Hungary)
  • OTKA T 025119; 1997-2002; investigator; Provenance study of glass beads from the Avar Period (6th-7th c. AD)
  • 1991-1995; PhD research; Stable isotope study of the origin of deep groundwater and its mixing with shallow groundwater
Study trips
  • Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA (1995)
Membership of scientific and professional organizations
  • Member of Editorial Board: Isotopes for Environmental and Health Studies (Taylor and Frances)
  • Founder member of the European Society for Isotope Research (ESIR)
  • Chair of ESIR: 2009-2011; secretary of ESIR: 1994-1996. Now member of the Advisory Board.
  • Membership: Roland Eötvös Physical Society, Hungarian Geological Society, Hungarian Chemical Society, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, International Association of Hydrogeologists, International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry.
Research grants, scholarships
  • Fulbright Research Scholarship (Sept-Dec 1995, Cleveland, USA)
  • János Bolyai Research Scholarship (1998-2001, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Awards
  • 1992 Elemér Szádeczky-Kardoss Award (shared)
  • 2013 Certificate of Recognition. International Association of GeoChemistry
Teaching
  • 1998- special courses (Eötvös University) "Stable isotope geochemistry" together with Attila Demény; and "Isotope hydrogeochemistry"
  • MSc. and M.A. students:
    • Five M.Sc. students at the Eötvös University: isotope hydrology
    • One M.A. student at the Szeged University: archaeometry of glass beads
  • PhD. students:
    • Tamás Berecz, 1997-2002, Eötvös University, Department of Applied and Environmental Geology
Publications
Selected publications of the last 5 years
  • Isotope geochemistry:
    • Fórizs István, Deák József, Csiszár Endre, Palcsu László, Czuppon György (2025) Az albertirsai Minera ásványvíz jégkorszaki eredetének bizonyítása környezeti-izotóp vizsgálatokkal. XIX. Nemzetközi Tudományos Konferencia a Kárpát-medence Ásványvizeiről. Kassa, Szlovákia, 2025. augusztus 28-29. Konferenciakötet, pp. 101-116
    • Czuppon Gy., Andrea Tóth, Eszter Fekete, István Fórizs, Attila Engloner, Krisztina Kármán, Péter Dobosy, Gábor Nyiri, Tamás Madarász, Péter Szűcs (2025) Stable isotope and hydrogeological measurements: Implications for transit time and mixing ratio in a riparian system of the Danube River. Journal of Hydrology 650: 132412
    • Fórizs, I.; Zoltán Kern; József Csicsák; Gergely Csurgó; Gábor Földing; Zoltán Máthé; János Ország; Géza Szreda; Roland Vendégh (2020) Monthly data of stable isotopic composition (δ18O, δ2H) and tritium activity in precipitation from 2004 to 2017 in the Mecsek Hills, Hungary. Data in Brief 32:106206
    • Kern Z., István Gábor Hatvani, György Czuppon, István Fórizs, Dániel Erdélyi, Tjaša Kanduč, László Palcsu, Polona Vreča (2020): Isotopic ‘altitude’ effect and ‘continental’ effect in modern precipitation across the Adriatic-Pannonian region. Water (MDPI) 2020, 12, 1797
    • Kern Z., István Gábor Hatvani, Dániel Erdélyi, Polona Vreča, Ines Krajcar Bronić, Tjaša Kanduč, Marko Štrok, István Fórizs, László Palcsu, Miklós Süveges, György Czuppon, and Balázs Kohán (2020) Isoscape of amount-weighted annual mean precipitation tritium (3H) activity from 1976 to 2017 for the Adriatic-Pannonian region –AP3H_v1 database. Earth System Science Data 12:2061-2073
  • Archaeometry
    • Mészáros Orsolya, Fórizs István (2024) A visegrádi késő középkori üvegműhely (Rév u. 5.): az üvegleletanyag áttekintése és archeometriai vizsgálata. Glass artefacts from a 15th-century glassmaking workshop at Rév utca 5. in Visegrád and their archaeometric analysis. In: A tudománynak gazdag ágai... Szerk.: Kovács Gyöngyi – Zatykó Csilla. Archaeolingua, Budapest, pp. 261-284
    • Fórizs I., István Gábor Hatvani, Géza Nagy, Zoltán Tóth, Adrien Pásztor (2024) Dataset of chemical composition of Avar age glass beads. Data in Brief 56:110796
    • Dévai K., István Fórizs (2024) Facet-cut vessels from Gorsium, Pannonia: Style, distribution and chemical composition. In: Annales du 22e Congrès de l’Association Internationale pour l’Histoire du Verre, pp. 131-140
    • Fórizs István, Wolf Mária, Mester Edit (2022) Archaeometric study of two glass fragments from the 13th c. Hejőkeresztúr-Vizekköze archaeological site (in Hungarian) A Hejőkeresztúr-Vizekköze lelőhelyről származó két 13. századi üvegedény-töredék archeometriai vizsgálata. In: Wolf M. Hejőkeresztúr-Vizekköze. A tatárjárás régészeti emlékei 1. Opitz, Budapest, pp. 129-138
    • Dévai K., Fórizs I., Leskó M. Zs. (2021) The tradition of facet-cut bowls from Pannonia: style, distribution and chemical composition. Archeometriai Műhely XVIII(2):123-133
    • Fórizs István, Ferencz Eszter, Ilon Gábor (2020): A Mesteri-intapusztai Árpád-kori temető gyöngyeinek archeometriai vizsgálata I. (Archaeometric analysis of glass beads from the Arpadian Age cemetery at Mesteri-Intapuszta. Part I.) Archeometriai Műhely XVII(2):129-156
Last update 2025.09.10.