Orsolya Bajer-Molnár

Orsolya Bajer-Molnár Ph.D. is an evolutionary biologist at Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research. She received her Master’s diploma from Eötvös Loránd University in Evolutionary biology, Ecology and Systematics. Five years later she completed her PhD in Behavioural ecology and Evolutionary biology. She then won a postdoctoral scholarship at Dartmouth College, NH, after which she continued research at UFRN in Brazil. Upon returning, she turned her attention towards the evolutionary dynamics of emerging infectious diseases, which she is currently working on in collaboration with the University of Nebraska (USA) and Centre for Ecology Research (Hungary).

Throughout her research, she had always been interested in science communication. Overseas she organized networking events, conferences and outreach programmes, and taught graduate and undergraduate students. She took an active role in science communication, and after numerous appearances, she just recently gave a TEDx talk.

Her current project focuses on the interface between science and policy, where she is working on facilitating a combined effort to prevent emerging infectious diseases.