Dr. Árpád Ferincz - MATE Research
Overview
Dr. Árpád Ferincz initially focused on distribution pattern analysis and ecological risk assessment of non-indigenous fish species. Later on, in parallel with participating (H2020, NVKP) and coordinating (GINOP) 'applied' research project he became experienced in fishery management and anthropogenic loads (nutrient, micropollutant) on surface waters, especially fish assemblages.He pioneered the introduction and continued application of experimental auctions—an increasingly important tool in experimental economics—in Hungary and Central Europe. He remains the key researcher using this method, including the first field experiment and the first nationally representative experimental auction. His research spans diverse food and agricultural products, analyzing consumer and market behavior, and uses modern data analytics, AI, and machine learning.Dr. László Sipos is a horticultural engineer (MSc), landscape architect (MSc), food safety and quality engineer (MSc). He received his PhD degree from Corvinus University in the field of management and economics, and his dissertation was on the analysis of mineral water consumption habits and the sensory analysis of mineral waters. He is currently Associate Professor at the Sensory Laboratory of the Institute of Food Science and Technology of the Hungarian University of Agricultural and Life Sciences. One of his main research interests is the design of consumer and expert sensory test experiments, development and validation of methodologies, development of colour masking and odour perception methods, performance measurement of sensory assessors, apiculture products, functional foods, chemometrics and sensometrics. Another main research area is light perception in plants, impact assessment of quantitative and qualitative parameters of light, development of light recipes.
He is the head of the Research Ethical Committee of the Doctoral School of Economic and Regional Sciences. Also, he is head of the Doctoral Program of Business Administration.
He serves as guest editor, associate editor and scientific advisory board member is various international journals: Guest editor (Discover Food, Frontiers in Nutrition); Associate editor (Frontiers in Nutrition); Scientific advisory board member (Economia Agro-alimentare).Research keywords:
Publications
Micropollutants
Pharmaceuticals in water and sediment of small streams under the pressure of urbanization: Concentrations, interactions, and risks
Effects of pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) on fish body and scale shape in natural waters
Occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the danube and drinking water wells: Efficiency of riverbank filtration
Ecology of invasive fish
Risk assessment of non-native fishes in the catchment of the largest Central-European shallow lake (Lake Balaton, Hungary)
Desiccation frequency drives local invasions of non-native gibel carp (Carassius gibelio) in the catchment of a large, shallow lake (Lake Balaton, Hungary)
Non-native fish species in Hungarian waters: historical overview, potential sources and recent trends in their distribution
Fishery management
Testing the efficiency of artificial spawning nests for pikeperch (Sander lucioperca L.) under natural conditions (Lake Balaton, Hungary)
Speaking their language – Development of a multilingual decision-support tool for communicating invasive species risks to decision makers and stakeholders
A global-scale screening of non-native aquatic organisms to identify potentially invasive species under current and future climate conditions
Hidden diversity: cryptic fish species
Increased spatial resolution of sampling in the Carpathian basin helps to understand the phylogeny of central European stream-dwelling gudgeons
The mixed phylogenetic origin of northern pike (Esox lucius Linnaeus 1758) populations in the Middle Danubian drainage
Mitochondrial sequence diversity reveals the hybrid origin of invasive gibel carp (Carassius gibelio) populations in Hungary
Geometric morphometric studies on fish
The role of ontogenetic development in fish scale shape changes
The role of ontogenetic development in fish scale shape changes
Repeatability, reproducibility, separative power and subjectivity of different fish morphometric analysis methods
Projects
Tools for Assessment and Planning Aquaculture Sustainability (TAPAS)



