Artur Ionescu

Research Group Leader

The deep-fluid detective, connecting gases, waters and rocks to understand how processes deep underground leave their signature at the surface, through a holistic approach on research. PhD in Environmnetal Science. Researcher at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Associated Researcher at Section of Palermo of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) and Visiting Professor at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB).

Botond-Csanád Kurucz

Research Group Coordinator and BSc student in Environmental Science

The right hand of the group, keeping people, projects and fieldwork moving in the same direction. Also the speedster, chasing diffuse CO₂ emissions and testing how low-cost sensors can help us map degassing landscapes.

Flavia Migliaccio

Postdoc at the Giovannelli Lab, PhD in Environmental Microbiology, MSc in Molecular Biology and BSc in Biological Sciences

The microbe hunter, exploring the microbial communities that thrive around hydrothermal fluids and what they are doing there.

Claudia De Luca

MSc in Scientific Communication and Advanced Chemical Engineering and a BSc in Chemical Engineering

The geeky science communicator, turning fieldwork and research into stories that make people curious about science and share the stories behind the work.

Botond Holinka

MSc in both Plant- and Medical Biology, BSc in both Biology and Environmental Science

The group’s botanist, investigating how plants and other organisms survive in CO₂-rich environments and what elements they bioaccumulate along the way.

Daniela Matias

PhD student in Volcanology, BSc in both Chemistry and Geology with MSc in Environmental Geochemistry and Geological Risk

The fluid mixer, chasing gases through volcanic lakes and exploring what free and dissolved gases reveal about the systems below.

Anamaria Muntean-Sarlea

BSc in Environmental Science and MSc in Environmental Managment and Protection

The traveller, loving nature and science in all of his aspects, especially multidisciplinary approaches to study the environment.

Kamilla Toth

BSc Animal Husbandry, Finance and Banks and in Environmental Science

The microbe explorer, looking for life in extreme environments and investigating how microorganisms interact with fluids moving through the geosphere.

Ioan Chiș

BSc in Environmental Management and Audit

The tech builder, developing low-cost multi-gas instruments to track natural gases and their impact on air quality.

Cătălin-George Cîrje

BSc Environmental Management and Audit

The carbon mapper, exploring natural CO₂ emissions in populated areas and bringing citizen science into the field.

Efthymia Efstathiou

BSc student in Geology and Geoenvironment

The Greek alchemist, combining fluid geochemistry with igneous petrology to decode fluid–rock interactions in different geodynamic settings.

Attila Ferencz

BSc in Geology

The mountain explorer, uncovering where mineral waters and gas manifestations occur and how people have used them through time.

Francesco Guerra

BSc in Photography, Cinema and Television

The visual explorer, professional photographer and filmaker, documenting science wherever it happens from volcanoes to underwater, there's no place he won't go with his camera.

Andrei Huminic

BSc in Environmental Engineering, MSc student in Sustainable Development and Environmental Management

The field engineer, building DIY instruments that turn water chemistry into something we can measure directly in the field.

Attila-Sándor Jakab

BSc student in Environmental Science with a BSc Food Products Engineering

The trace-element detective, following hidden elements through mineral waters and exploring what they might mean for environmental and human health.

Andrei Moldoveanu

BSc student in Film and Television Image Production

The team storyteller, capturing field science through photography and film and showing what research actually looks like behind the scenes.

Iulia-Georgiana Ungur

BSc in Environmental Management and Audit

The mineral/rock girl, combining field observations and experiments to reconstruct gas-water-rock interactions below the surface.

Balázs-Zoltán Veress

BSc in Environmental Science

The mineral maker, exploring what happens when gases react with their surroundings and leave new minerals behind.

József-Szilárd Baló

BSc student in Environmental Science

The time traveller, using mineral springs and travertines as proxys to reconstruct ancient fluids and environmental conditions.

Gergő Bokor

BSc student in Environmental Science

The radiation scout, exploring how natural radioactivity can reveal hidden geothermal systems and subsurface fluid pathways.

Raluca Andreea Ciur

BSc student in Environmental Engineering

The radon girl, following how radon moves between rocks, water, soil and the geospheres.

Kata Gergely

BSc student in Environmental Science

The group’s diver, taking fluid geochemistry underwater to explore volcanic and marine environments from a different perspective.

Tudor-Ștefan Hilma

BSc student in Environmental Engineering

The hydro guy, exploring groundwater and surface-water systems while developing new ways to measure gases dissolved in water.

Daria-Ștefania Marghiolu

BSc student in Environmental Engineering

The rock reactor of the group, fascinated by how ophiolitic rocks can naturally produce hydrogen while capturing carbon dioxide through water–rock interactions.

Raluca-Otilia Pintea

BSc student in Environmental Engineering

The fault finder of the group, interested in how geological discontinuities guide fluids toward the surface and how these evolve through secondary reactions along the way.

Matei Rogozan

BSc student in Environmental Engineering

The soil guy, investigating how gases rising from depth transform the soils they encounter on their way to the atmosphere.

Ádam-Márton Vitos

BSc student in Environmental Science

The modeller, turning complex geochemical processes into numbers, simulations and models that help us understand what happens below the surface.

Ionuț-Dragoș Muntean

The expedition backbone, keeping the team moving, prepared and safe wherever the field takes us.