CURRICULUM VITAE Kálmán Géza VÁNKY   

 

 

 

 

 

 Personal Details 

 

 Name Kálmán Géza VÁNKY
 Postal address Gabriel-Biel-Str. 5, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
 Telephone

 +49 7071 67876   Mobile: +49 160 2379849

 Email dr.kalman@vanky.se
 Date of birth 15 June, 1930
 Nationality Szekely-Hungarian, with Hungarian and Swedish citizenship
 Marital status married, 3 children

 

  

 Education 

 

 1953 B.Sc & M.Sc. Biology, University of Bucharest, Romania
 1961 M.D. Faculty of Medicine, Tîrgu-Mureş, Romania

 1985 Ph.D.

 Taxonomic botany, Uppsala University, Sweden                

 

  

 Employment History

 

1953–1957                         

Researcher at the Department of Phytopathology of the Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR), Bucharest, Romania

1961–1969Physician, Odorhei and Borsec, Romania

 

1970–1986

 

 

Family physician (GP, half time), and researcher in the field of smut fungus taxonomy (half time, self-financed), Gagnef, Sweden

1986–1995

 

 

 

Researcher in the field of smut fungus taxonomy, University of Tübingen, Institute of Botany, Dept. of Special Botany and Mycology, Tübingen, Germany (Prof. F. Oberwinkler)

 

1995-todayRetired. Continuing to work at home until 2014.

 

 

 Awards

 2001                     

 2012

 

 

 2014

 

 2020

 

Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science

 

"Pázmány Dénes award" & "Laudatio" of the 'Kálmán László' Mycological Society, Transylvania (Romania)

 

Arany János-Medal of the Hungarian Academy of Science

 

Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit

(Magyar Érdemrend Tisztikeresztje)

 

 

 Honoured by the names

 

 Orphanomyces vankyi  Savile (1974)

 

 Antracoidea vankyi Nannfeldt (1977) 

 

 Vankya  Ershad (2000)

 

 Uromyces vankyorum  R. Berndt (2002)

 

 Kalmanomyza Q.M. Wang, F.Y.Bay, Begerow & Boekhout (2015)

 

 Kalmanago  Teodor T. Denchev, Cvetomir M. Denchev, Martin Kemler & Dominik   Begerow (2020)