Márton Rabi
PhD
Sciences
Márton Rabi
PhD
Sciences
Address
Institute of Geosciences
University of Tübingen
Hölderlinstraße 12.
DE-72074, Tübingen
marton.rabi@uni-tuebingen.de
https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties/faculty-of-science/departments/geosciences/work-groups-contacts/palaeobiology/research-area/biogeologie/arbeitsgruppe/people/dr-marton-rabi/
Current Research Interests
Diversification and biogeographic history of vertebrates
Education
2009 – okleveles geológus (Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Budapest)
Scientific degrees
2014 – PhD (University of Tübingen, Germany); értekezés címe: New insights into the origins and phylogeny of Cryptodiran turtles based on key fossil taxa from the Mesozoic of Asia
Employment
2020 –
University of Tübingen, Institute of Geosciences
research assistant, lecturer
2017 – 2020
VW Stiftung Postdoctoral research fellow, Central Natural Science Collections, Martin-Luther University, Halle (Saale), Germany
postdoctoral researcher
2016 – 2017
Marie Curie-Train2Move research fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Turin, Italy
postdoctoral researcher
2015
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
postdoctoral researcher
2014
Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
doctoral researcher
2011 – 2013
Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen
doctoral researcher
Research grants and project leadership
2019 – 2022 (principal investigator)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (“Resolving the phylogeny and biogeographic history of early Crocodylia through total evidence analysis and exceptionally preserved Eocene fossils from Vietnam”)
2017 – 2020 (principal investigator)
Volkswagen Stiftung; Research in Museum grant (“Climatic drivers of diversity during the global warming events of the Eocene”)
2015 – 2016 (principal investigator)
Marie Curie – University of Turin co-fund (“Ecological diversity of marine ectothermic vertebrates across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction and the Palaeogene hyperthermal events”)
2015 (principal investigator)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (“Physical and biotic drivers of 220 million years of turtle evolution”)
2015 – 2019 (collaborator)
OTKA K116665 (“Mesozoic vertebrates of Hungary”). Hungarian Scientific Research Grant, PI: A. Ősi
2011 – 2016 (collaborator)
95102 Momentum grant (“Anatomical, histological and paleobiogeographical analysis of the 85 Ma Iharkút dinosaur fauna and its comparison to other Late Cretaceous European archipelago faunas”). Hungarian Academy of Sciences & Eötvös Lorand University, PI: A. Ősi
2011 – 2015 (collaborator)
OTKA NF 84193 (“A terrestrial refugee in the Late Cretaceous archipelago of the Western-Tethys: paleobiology and paleobiogeography of the Iharkút vertebrate fauna”). Hungarian Scientific Research Grant, PI: A. Ősi
2011 – 2013 (collaborator)
DFG 192208807 (“Morphological Variation and Phylogeny of “Xinjiangchelyid” Turtles”). Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, PI: W G. Joyce
Honors and Awards
2012
Best PhD student presentation, Annual Meeting of Hungarian Paleontologists, 3rd place
2011
Best PhD student presentation, Annual Meeting of Hungarian Paleontologists, 2nd place
2010
Best PhD student presentation, Annual Meeting of Hungarian Paleontologists, 2nd place
2009
Hungarian Scientific Student Conference, Paleontological section, 1st place
2008
Hungarian Meeting of young geoscientists, 3rd place
2007
Best student presentation, Annual Meeting of Hungarian Paleontologists, 1st place
2007
Hungarian Meeting of young geoscientists, special prize of the Geological Institute of Hungary
2007
Hungarian Scientific Student Conference, Paleontological section, 3rd place
2006
Best student presentation, Annual Meeting of Hungarian Paleontologists, 1st place
2005
Best student presentation, Annual Meeting of Hungarian Paleontologists, 2nd place
2004
Best student presentation, Annual Meeting of Hungarian Paleontologists, 2nd place
Fellowships
2016
SYNTHESYS (EU) grant (Natural History Museum of Brussels)
2015
DAAD Kongressreisenprogramm travel grant for participation at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists (Dallas, USA)
Transmitting Science Travel Grant for participation at the 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists (Opole, Poland)
2014
RTMCS Student Research Program Application (Royal Tyrrell Museum, Alberta, Canada).
SYNTHESYS (EU) grant (Natural History Museum of Brussels)
2013
Student travel grant of the Joint Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft and the Paleontological Society of China, Göttingen, Germany
Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of extinct European giant tortoises. DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), PPP-IKYDA (Greece).
SYNTHESYS (EU) grant (Natural History Museum of Paris)
2012
SYNTHESYS (EU) grant (Natural History Museum, Leiden, Netherlands)
2011
SYNTHESYS (EU) grant (Natural History Museum of London)
2010
Central European Exchange Program for University Studies, PhD scholarship
Fieldwork grant of the Pro Renovande Cultura Hungarie Foundation (Late Cretaceous vertebrates, Iharkút, Hungary)
SYNTHESYS (EU) grant Natural History Museum of Vienna)
2009 – 2011
Eötvös Lorand University, doctoral scholarship
2008
Fieldwork grant of the Pro Renovande Cultura Hungarie Foundation (Late Oligocene vertebrates, Máriahalom, Hungary)
2007
Raymond Rivoallan Fund (Conference travel, European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists)
2006
Fieldwork grant of the Pro Renovande Cultura Hungarie Foundation (Late Oligocene vertebrates, Máriahalom, Hungary)
Fieldwork grant of the Hantken Miksa Foundation, (Late Oligocene vertebrates, Máriahalom, Hungary)
2005
Raymond Rivoallan Fund (Conference travel grant, European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists)
Professional service
2012 – peer review of ca. 70 manuscripts (e.g., Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Scientific Reports, Gondwana Research, Naturwissenschaften, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, etc.)
Previous / current memberships:
Magyarhoni Földtani Társulat
European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists
Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists
Teaching experience
2013 –
‘Paleobiology’ course (contributor; University of Tübingen, Geology, Geoecology BSc, MSc)
2014 – ‘Paleoecology of terrestrial ecosystems’ course (contributor; University of Tübingen, Geology, Geoecology BSc, MSc)
2020 –
Erdgesichte´ course (contributor; University of Tübingen, Geology BSc)
Recent museum collection visits and field trips
2020
Jura-Museum Eichstätt, Germany
Malaysia, Sarawak (Borneo); fieldwork, Pleistocene vertebrates
2019
Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Germany
Melbourne Museum, Victoria, Australia
Malaysia, Sarawak (Borneo); fieldwork, Pleistocene vertebrates
2018
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany
Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Brunei (Borneo); fieldwork, Neogene vertebrates
