The preliminary programme, the planned scientific sections and everything you need to know about presenting at GeoMATES 2027.
Subject to change. The detailed scientific programme and exact schedule will be announced at a later date.
László L. KISS
Google Scholar ↗Free and open to everyone — the talk will be streamed on YouTube
Followed by parallel section talks
Maurizio PETRELLI
Google Scholar ↗Followed by parallel section talks and the closing ceremony
Rita KISS
Vice-President for Natural Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences · Welcome address
Stephen J. MOJZSIS
Google Scholar ↗Charles J. VÖRÖSMARTY
Google Scholar ↗Excursion
Between the plenary talks the congress runs parallel section talks in the four thematic groups listed below. The detailed scientific programme and the exact schedule will be announced at a later date.
On the evening of 20 May, participants are invited to a guided tour of Buda Castle, followed by the gala evening at the Institute for Musicology (HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities). The gala programme is optional and is not included in the registration fee; it can be booked for an additional EUR 20 on the online registration form.
Five plenary talks and one short course. The titles of the talks will be announced together with the detailed programme.
Research Professor, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth; Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado Boulder
Stephen Mojzsis works on the isotope geochemistry and geochronology of the oldest rocks and minerals on Earth, using uranium–lead zircon dating and stable isotopes to reconstruct the Hadean and Eoarchean world: the first crust, the first oceans and atmosphere, and the conditions under which life could begin. He is one of three principal investigators of the ERC Synergy project Geoastronomy, which carries the methods of terrestrial geology over to rocky exoplanets. He was elected to Academia Europaea in 2024.
Founding Director, Environmental Sciences Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY Graduate Center; Professor of Geography and Environmental Science, Hunter College, New York
Charles Vörösmarty studies the global water cycle with computer models and geospatial datasets, linking water, climate, biogeochemistry and human activity. He originated the Water Balance Model, a gridded global hydrological model still developed today as open-source software, and co-chaired the Global Water System Project. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and of the AAAS, and in 2019 received the Commander’s Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit.
Director General, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest; full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
László Kiss is an astronomer whose everyday tool is the same as that of many geomathematicians: time-series analysis. He studies pulsating red giants, red dwarfs, transiting exoplanets and exomoons through brightness variations — from century-old visual observations to the ultra-precise photometry of space telescopes. He received the Széchenyi Prize in 2019 and was named Hungary’s science communicator of the year in 2020. This talk is open to everyone, not only to registered participants.
Distinguished Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University; honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Sierd Cloetingh is a geodynamicist working on intraplate deformation, the dynamics of the lithosphere and the evolution of sedimentary basins, with numerical models calibrated against earthquake, gravity and heat-flow data. He founded and chairs TOPO-EUROPE and served as President of Academia Europaea. His honours include the Arthur Holmes Medal of the EGU and the International Distinguished Career Award of the Geological Society of America.
Professor of Petrology and Volcanology, Department of Physics and Geology, University of Perugia
Maurizio Petrelli works on magma dynamics and the processes that shape volcanic plumbing systems, integrating insights from natural samples, experimental petrology, numerical modelling and machine learning. He is the author of two widely used textbooks, Introduction to Python in Earth Science Data Analysis (2021) and Machine Learning for Earth Sciences (2023), which reach readers across the geosciences. He also coordinates two large collaborative Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions projects: REALISE, a Doctoral Network that trains early-career researchers at the interface of petrology and machine learning, and the REALI3SE Staff Exchanges project.
Founder of Climate Risk Analysis, Bad Gandersheim, Germany
Manfred Mudelsee works on the statistics of climate and weather extremes. His 2003 paper in Mathematical Geology introduced bootstrap confidence intervals for Pearson’s correlation coefficient for serially dependent time series — the backbone of the short course he gives here. He is the author of Climate Time Series Analysis (Springer, 2nd ed. 2014) and Statistical Analysis of Climate Extremes (Cambridge, 2020), and distributes free software for persistence estimation and correlation with bootstrap intervals.
As of March 2026.
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