Zoltán Barta - Biography#

Zoltan Barta has a wide ranging interest from social foraging, through parental care and cooperation to state-dependent life history theory. A unique aspect of his research is the combination of theoretical and empirical approaches.

Currently, his work focuses on social organisation of bird flocks, gene expression regulation of parental care in a new model system, the Lethrus apterus beetle and theoretical investigation of parental care concentrating the origin of sex role differences.

He publishes in the major journals of his field, like Am. Nat., Anim. Behav., Behav. Ecol., Nature, Phil. Trans. and Proc. of the Roy. Soc.

Zoltan Barta is an internationally recognised expert of state dependent modelling, social foraging, cooperation and parental care.

He has a leading role in Hungarian evolutionary biology and behavioural ecology. He organised several successful national and international workshops and PhD courses in these fields. Many PhD and master students completed his/her thesis under his supervision. He serves/served his profession in several ways, currently he is the chair of the Ecology and Evolution panel of the National Office of Research, Development and Innovation.

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