Profiled graduates

  • Brandon P. Anthony
    Associate Professor
    Director, Remote/Rural Communities & the Environment
    Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy
    Center for Environment and Security (CENSE)

    Prior to joining CEU faculty, Brandon Anthony worked as advisor to the Hungarian Nature Conservation Institute, as a park supervisor/biologist with the Otonabee Regional Conservation Authority (Canada), and as an agricultural habitat biologist with the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (Canada). He has conducted research on nature conservation and community livelihoods in Canada, South Africa, Malawi, Romania and Hungary.

  • Fiona Borthwick
    Programme director of the Masters in Food Security at the University of Edinburgh

    Fiona studied at CEU from 2003-2010. She then took up a position as Lecturer in Environmental Management at the Scottish Agricultural College in Edinburgh. Fiona lectures in rural land use, environmental management systems, corporate social responsibility and environmental impact assessment. In 2011 she became programme director of the MSc in Food Security, at the school of Geoscience, University of Edinburgh. She is also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

    Her research interests include environmental and resource security, network analysis for assessing bio security risks, and education for sustainable development.

  • Richard Filcak

    Professor/Researcher

    Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute for Forecasting Studies, Bratislava

  • Maia Gachechiladze-Bozhesku
    Research Associate
    Center for Environment and Security (CENSE)
    Year of enrollment: 2005/2006

    Dr. Maia Gachechiladze-Bozhesku is an Associate Researcher at Center for Environment and Security, Environmental Sciences and Policy Department, Central European University, Hungary. She is also an EIA quality advisor with the Environmental Assessment Centre in Moscow, Russia. Since 2000 she has been a part of EA consulting team of Scientific-research firm “Gamma” Ltd, Georgia. Since 2007 she has worked as a freelance analyst for environmental and social impacts with “Exclusive Analysis” Ltd., UK. She worked on SEA while being a visiting scholar at the Department of Geography, University of Saskatchewan, Canada in fall 2007.

  • Katarina Korytarova
    Researcher

    Dr. Korytarova completed her PhD in May 2010. Her dissertation focuses on energy efficiency in public buildings, case study Hungary and presents several alternative low-energy pathways for 2030. The thesis shows the importance of deep retrofits, the planning of the transition towards low-energy future through gradual improvement of minimum requirements for building renovation as well as the risk related to the massive renovation to the suboptimal level of retrofit, which is demonstrated by quantifying the lock-in effect.

  • Viktor Lagutov
    Head, Environmental Systems Laboratory
    Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy
    Environmental Systems Laboratory
    UNEP Global Environment Outlook (GEO) Collaborating Center
    Center for Environment and Security (CENSE)

    Viktor Lagutov joined CEU in 1997.

  • Julia Leventon
    Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

    Julia Leventon is a PhD candidate interested in the interactions between science, society and governance. Her position at CEU is supported by AquaTRAIN, a Marie Curie Research Training Network) under the 6th Framework Programme of the EU.
    Through her PhD, Julia is examining implementation gaps in EU policy. The work draws on evidence from a case study of the management of groundwater with high levels of geogenic arsenic in Hungary.

  • Farhad Mukhtarov
    Researcher

    Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Aleksandra Novikova
    Senior Analyst
    Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG)
    Year of enrollment: 2003/2004

    Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), German Institute of Economic Research (DIW) Berlin, Germany; Lead Author of the Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)which has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, 2007; Lead Analyst of the forthcoming Global Energy Assessment (GEA), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

  • Victoria Novikova
  • Silvia Rezessy
    Junior researcher

    Insitute for Energy, DG Joint Research Centre, European Commission.  Italy.

  • Yuliya Voytenko
    Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS), Graz, Austria
    Year of enrollment: 2007/2008

    Yuliya Voytenko is a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS) in Graz, Austria. She holds PhD in Environmental Sciences and Policy from CEU, a MSc in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management (MESPOM) and a BSc in Ecology from the National University of 'Kyiv-Mohyla Academy' (Kyiv, Ukraine). Yuliya has been working in the area of bioenergy for more than four years. In 2007/2008 she was a co-developer and a lecturer for Business and the Environment course at CEU Business School. She has been also involved in projects with international organisations such as UN FAO, OSCE, UNEP, UNDP, EEA, etc. Throughout 2009/2010 Yuliya has been a visiting PhD researcher at the Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University (Lund, Sweden).

Alumni 

2010

  • Fiona Borthwick - Lecturer, Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh, Scotland. Dissertation: 'Environment and security: setting an agenda for international action and co-operation'
  • Maia Gachechiladze - 'Strategic environmental assessment follow-up: from promise to practice.Case studies from the UK and Canada'
  • Katarina Korytarova - 'Energy efficiency potential for space heating in Hungarian public buildings: towards a low-carbon economy'
  • Victoria Novikova - 'The economic potential of carbon dioxide emission mitigation from efficiency improvements in electricity end-use in the Hungarian tertiary sector'
    Strategic Environmental Assessment Follow-up: from Promise to Practice.
    Case studies from the UK and Canada
     

2009

  • Viktor Lagutov - 'Theory and practice of sturgeon species restoration: the prospects for natural reproduction in the Ural river'
  • Pawel Banas - 'Local authorities in implementation of environmental policy: evidence from Poland'
  • Silvia Rezessy - Researcher, European Commission's Joint Research Council.  Dissertation: 'Energy saving obligations in the context of Hungary's end-use energy efficiency policy and energy market'
  • Farhad Mukhtarov - 'The hegemony of integrated water resources management: a study of policy translation in England, Turkey, and Kazakhstan'

2008

  • Gergana Miladinova - 'Developing sustainable energy systems: policies, barriers and prospects for distributed energy generation in Bulgaria'
  • Aleksandra Novikova - 'Carbon dioxide mitigation potential in the Hungarian residential sector'

2007

  • Richard Filcak - Institute of Forecasting Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences. Dissertation: 'Environmental justice in the Slovak Republic: the case of the Roma ethnic minority'
  • Dora Kulauzov - 'Strengthening the synergies of desertification and climate change policy subsystems in the Southern-Mediterranean region in the context of international development co-operation'

2006

  • Brandon Anthony - Associate Professor, Central European University.  Dissertation: 'A view from the other side of the fence: Tsonga communities and the Kruger National Park, South Africa'