Research Interests: Fluid inclusions in mantle xenoliths, Raman microspectroscopy, FIB-SEM technique on fluid inclusion studies

Degree

Ph.D. Earth Sciences (Petrology and Geochemistry, qualification: summa cum laude Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Sciences, 2011).

Current position

• postdoc researcher – OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund), Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary (2012-)

Former positions

• 2012: postdoc researcher, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
• 2010-2012: research associate, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary under the framework of TÁMOP-4.2.1/B-09/1/KMR-2010-0003 project

 Memberships

• Hungarian Geological Society (2004-);
• Eötvös Lorand University Student Chapter of the Society of Economic Geology (2005-);
• European Geosciences Union (2008-)

Awards

• 1st place at the Annual Conference of Young Hungarian Earth Scientist, Balatonkenese (Hungary), 2006;
• Outstanding Student of the Faculty, Eötvös University, Budapest, 2006;
• 1st place at Scientific Conference of Students held at Faculty of Science, Eötvös University, Budapest, 2006;
• 2nd place at National Scientific Conference of Students held at University of Szeged, Szeged, 2007;
• Goldschmidt Student Travel Grant by the Geochemical Society for financially supporting the participation at the 17th Goldschmidt conference, Cologne 2007;
• “Kriván Pál Commemorative Medallion” of the Hungarian Geological Society for the Master Thesis, Budapest, 2008;
• Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences covering the participation at the 20th IMA meeting, Budapest, 2010;
• Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for the best paper of young researchers in 2012;

Scholarships

• Visiting Student for 7 days at the Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg (USA), 2007;
• Visiting Student for 1 month at the Gestion des Ressources Minérales et Energétiques (G2R), Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France (supported by the French Institute Budapest and the French Embassy), 2008;
• Visiting Students for 4 months at the Gestion des Ressources Minérales et Energétiques (G2R), Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France (supported by the French Embassy in Budapest and the Hungarian-French Bilateral Science and Technology Foundation), 2009;
• Visiting Students for 6 weeks at the Gestion des Ressources Minérales et Energétiques (G2R), Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France (supported by the French Embassy in Budapest and the Hungarian-French Bilateral Science and Technology Foundation), 2010;
• Visiting student for 4 days at the SISSI beamline, ELETTRA Synchrotron Light Laboratory, Trieste, Italy, 2010;
• Visiting student for 9 days at the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy (Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences) Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia (supported by the Hungarian and Russian Academy of Sciences), 2010;
• Visiting student for 8 days at the SISSI beamline, ELETTRA Synchrotron Light Laboratory. May 12-19, 2011, Trieste (Italy);
• Eighteen-months TAMOP scholarship (4.2.1./B-09/1/KMR-2010-0003) at the Eötvös University, October 01, 2010 – May 31, 2012, Budapest (Hungary);
• Visiting researcher for 7 days at the SISSI beamline, ELETTRA Synchrotron Light Laboratory. March 29-April 05, 2012, Trieste (Italy);

Workshops and short courses

• Advances in Petrology: a Meeting in Honor of Ezio Callegari, October 08-09, 2006, Turin, Italy;
• Geological History of CO2: Carbon cycle and natural sequestration of CO2 by Alain-Yves Huc, March 2, 2006, Budapest, Hungary;
• Fluids Inclusions short course by Ronald J. Bakker, September 04-06, 2006, Szeged, Hungary;
• Fluids in the Earth short course by Robert J. Bodnar, October 09-13, 2006, Budapest, Hungary;
• Vibration Spectroscopy (Infrared Absorption and Raman): Applications in Geosciences” short course by Lutz Nasdala, Eugen Libowitzky and Anton Beran, March 05-09, 2007, Vienna, Austria;
• European Mantle Workshop, Petrological Evolution of the European Lithospheric Mantle: from Archean to Present Day, August 29-31, 2007, Ferrara, Italy;
• Diffusion – Theoretical Background and Case Studies short course by Rainer Abart, Ralf Milke (Free University of Berlin, Germany) and Wilhelm Heinrich (GeoForschrungZentrum, Potsdam, Germany), October 24-28, 2007, Budapest, Hungary;
• European Intensive Seminars of Petrology (EURISPET), Petrology of the lithosphere in extensional settings, August 21-31, 2008, Budapest, Hungary;
• High-Pressure Experimental Techniques and Applications to the Earth’s Interior DMG short course, February 16-20, 2009, Bayreuth, Germany;
• European Intensive Seminars of Petrology (EURISPET), High-pressure metamorphism and subduction zones, June 27- July 05, 2009, Granada (Spain);
• The use of fluid inclusion properties to understand fluids in the Earth; short course by Jean Dubessy and Jacques Pironon. October 26-28, 2009, Budapest (Hungary);
• European Intensive Seminars of Petrology (EURISPET), High-temperature metamorphism and crustal melting , 01-10 June 2010, Padova (Italy);
• Pre-conference short course (no.WSC1) in the framework of the IMA 2010: Raman spectroscopy and imaging: Applications in the Earth sciences, August 20-21, 2010, Vienna, Austria.

Papers

1. Berkesi, M., Hidas, K.J. & Szabó, Cs. (2007) Fossil geotherm estimation of spinel peridotite xenoliths from Tihany (Bakony-Balaton Highland Volcanic Field) based on CO2 fluid inclusions (in Hungarian with English abstract). Magyar Geofizika, 48, 31-37.
2. Berkesi, M., Hidas, K., Guzmics, T., Dubessy, J., Bodnar, R.J., Szabó, Cs., Vajna, B., & Tsunogae, T. (2009) Detection of small amounts of H2O in CO2-rich fluid inclusions using Raman spectroscopy. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 40, 1461-1463.
3. Guzmics, T., Mitchell, R.H., Szabó, Cs., Berkesi, M., Milke, R. & Abart, R. (2011) Carbonatite melt inclusions in coexisting magnetite, apatite and monticellite in Kerimasi calciocarbonatite, Tanzania: melt evolution and petrogenesis. Contribution to Mineralogy and Petrology, 161, 177-196.
4. Berkesi, M., Guzmics, T., Szabó, Cs., Dubessy, J., Bodnar, R.J., Hidas, K. & Ratter, K. (2012) The role of CO2-rich fluids in trace element transport and metasomatism in the lithospheric mantle beneath the Central Pannonian Basin, Hungary, based on fluid inclusions in mantle xenoliths. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 331-332, 8–20.
5. Guzmics, T., Mitchell, R.H., Szabó, Cs., Berkesi, M., Milke, R. & Ratter, K. (2012) Liquid immiscibility between silicate, carbonate and sulfide melts in melt inclusions hosted in co-precipitated minerals from Kerimasi volcano (Tanzania): evolution of carbonated nephelinitic magma. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 164, 101-122.
6. Ferrero, S., Braga, R., Berkesi, M., Cesare, B. & Ouazaa, N.L. (2014) Production of metaluminous melt during fluid-present anatexis: an example from the Maghrebian basement, La Galite Archipelago, central Mediterranean. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 32, 209-225.
7. Czuppon, Gy., Ramsay, R.R., Özgenc, I., Demény, A., Gwalani, L.G., Rogers, K., Eves, A., Papp, L., Palcsu, L., Berkesi, M. & Downes, P.J. (2014) Stable (H, O, C) and noble-gas (He and Ar) isotopic compositions from calcite and fluorite in the Speewah Dome, Kimberley Region, Western Australia: implications for the conditions of crystallization and evidence for the influence of crustal-mantle fluid mixing. Mineralogy and Petrology, 108, 759–775.

Manuscripts

• Berkesi, M. (2006) Fossil pressure estimation for spinel peridotites, based on CO2 fluid inclusions, Tihany (western Hungary) (in Hungarian). Thesis of the National Scientific Conference of Students, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest (Hungary), pp: 59.
• Berkesi, M. (2007) Complex study on CO2–rich fluid inclusions of upper mantle peridotite xenoliths from Tihany (western Hungary) (in Hungarian). M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest (Hungary), pp. 90.
• Berkesi, M. (2011) The role of fluids in the lithospheric mantle (Central Pannonian Basin, western Hungary): detailed fluid inclusion study in mantle xenoliths. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest (Hungary), pp. 168.

Abstracts

• Berkesi, M. (2006) CO2-fluid inclusion in Tihany peridotite xenoliths: fossil pressure estimation for upper mantle, Bakony-Balaton Highland Volcanic Field (W-Hungary). (in Hungarian) Balatonkenese, Associations of Hungarian Geophysics, XXXVII. Conference of Young Earth Scientists, Abstract series, p. 48.
• Berkesi, M. (2007) Fossil pressure estimation based on CO2-fluid inclusion study in Tihany peridotite xenoliths (Bakony-Balaton Highland Volcanic Field, W-Hungary). (in Hungarian) Szeged, In: National Scientific Conference of Students, Abstract series, p. 203.
• Hidas, K., Yang, K., Berkesi, M., Eom, Y., Nam, B. & Szabó, Cs. (2007) Paleo-geotherm reconstruction of the upper mantle: a CO2 case study from Jeju Island (South Korea). The 5th International Symposium on the Volcanoes of the World, May 25-26, 2007, Jeju City, Jeju Island (South Korea), In.: Sung-Hyo Yun (Ed.) Proceedings of the 5th international Symposium (JeVI), 27-34.
• Hidas, K., Yang, K., Berkesi, M., Eom, Y., Nam, B. & Szabó, Cs. (2007) Significance of CO2 fluid inclusions in the upper mantle: a case study from Jeju Island (South Korea). Proceedings of the Annual Joint Conference, Mineralogical Society of Korea and Petrological Society of Korea. May 31, 2007, Andong, Korea, 35-37.
• Berkesi, M., Hidas, K. & Szabó, Cs. (2007) CO2-rich fluid inclusions in upper mantle derived xenoliths (Western Hungary, Tihany): microthermometry and Raman microspectroscopic study. European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ECROFI-XIX), Abstract Volume, p. 80.
• Berkesi, M., Szabó, Cs., Bodnar, R.J. & Fedele, L. (2007) CO2-bearing fluid inclusions in upper mantle xenoliths from Tihany (western Hungary): minimum trapping pressures and trace element compositions, Goldschmidt 2007 „atoms to planet” August 19 - 24, 2007 Cologne, Germany, Abstract series (A 83)
• Berkesi, M., Hidas, K. & Szabó, Cs. (2007) Pressure preserved by CO2-rich fluid inclusions: a case study from Tihany peridotites, western Hungary, European Mantle Workshop (EMAW 2007), Abstract series (unpaged)
• Nédli, Zs., Princivalle, F., Dobosi, G., Embey-Isztin, A., Hidas, K., Berkesi, M. & Szabó, Cs. (2007) Crystal chemistry of clinopyroxenes enclosed in upper mantle xenoliths from the Carpathian-Pannonian Region (Hungary): contributions to petrogenesis and pressure estimation, European Mantle Workshop (EMAW 2007), Abstract series (unpaged)
• Berkesi, M., Hidas, K. & Szabó, Cs. (2007) Pressure preserved by CO2-rich fluid inclusions in peridotite xenoliths: reconstructed paleogeotherm within the upper mantle beneath Tihany Peninsula, western Hungary HUNTEK Workshop, Sopron, Hungary, Abstract Volume, p. 24-25.
• Berkesi, M., Hidas, K. & Szabó, Cs. (2008) CO2-rich fluid inclusion study in upper mantle peridotites (Pannonian Basin, western Hungary); Geophysical Research Abstracts,Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-00318, SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU2008-A-00318
• Guzmics T., in collaboration with Bali, E., Audétat, A., Berkesi, M. & Szabó, Cs. (2008) Liquid immiscibility between a phosphorous carbonatite melt and a carbonate-bearing alkali aluminosiliceous melt, coexisting with apatite, K-feldspar and diopside at 1200 °C and 2.2 GPa: implications for carbonatite metasomatism in the mantle. EU RITA (Research Infrastructure Transnational Access, "The Structure and Properties of Materials at High Pressure") User workshop Abstract, Verbania, Italy, September 28 – October 01, 2008.
• Berkesi, M., Dubessy, J., Bali, E. & Szabó, Cs. (2008) Clinopyroxene-rich veins along subcontinental upper mantle material: a case study for a remnant of former migrating and interacting silicate melt (Pannonian Basin, western Hungary), Ninth Pan-American Conference on Research on Fluid Inclusions, Abstract Book, p.8.
• Guzmics T., in collaboration with Bali, E., Audétat, A., Berkesi, M. & Szabó, Cs. (2008) Liquid-liquid immiscibility between a phosphorous-bearing carbonatite melt and a potassic aluminosiliceous melt coexisting with apatite, K-feldspar and diopside at 2.2 GPa and 1200 oC. Annual Report 2008 Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Germany.
• Berkesi, M., Hidas, K., Guzmics, T., Dubessy, J., Bodnar, R.J., Szabó, C., Vajna, B., Pintér, Zs. & Tsunogae, T. (2009) Presence of H2O in deep lithospheric fluid inclusions: a combined method of Raman spectroscopy and heating-freezing stage. European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ECROFI-XX), 21-27 September, 2009, Granada, Spain, Programme and Abstracts, p. 29-30.
• Berkesi, M., Hidas, K., Bodnar, R.J. & Szabó, C. (2009) Multiple evolution history recorded in Tihany peridotite series: melt/rock interaction and cryptic fluid metasomatism. European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ECROFI-XX), 21-27 September, 2009, Granada, Spain, Programme and Abstracts, p. 27-28.
• Dubessy, J., Ding, J., Robert, P., Leisen, M., Giraud, A. & Berkesi, M. (2009) Capillary techniques combined with vibrational spectroscopies applied to fluid inclusions and phase equilibria. European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ECROFI-XX), 21-27 September, 2009, Granada, Spain, Programme and Abstracts, p. 67-68.
• Guzmics, T., Mitchell, R.H., Berkesi, M. & Szabó, C. (2009) Carbonatite melt inclusion study in coexisting magnetite, apatite and monticellite from Kerimasi carbonatite, Tanzania. European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ECROFI-XX), 21-27 September, 2009, Granada, Spain, Programme and Abstracts, p. 107-108.
• Dubessy, J., Ding, J., Robert, P., Leisen, M., Aparicio, B., Nguyen-Trung, Ch., Berkesi, M. & Uteyev, R. (2010) Raman spectroscopy in capillary cells to 400°C and 2 kbar applied to geochemistry. GeoRaman, 28 June–02 July, Sydney, Australia
• Berkesi, M., Hidas, K., Guzmics, T., Szabó, Cs., Dubessy, J., Bodnar, R. J. & Kovács, I. J. (2010) Fluid inclusions from mantle xenoliths, Central Pannonian Basin: a comparative study. Pan-American Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (PACROFI X), 07 -10 June, 2010, Las Vegas, USA,
• Szabó, Cs., Berkesi, M., Hidas, K., Guzmics, T., Bodnar, R.J. & Dubessy, J. (2010) Trace element transport by COHS fluids in the deep lithosphere: a fluid inclusion perspective. Goldschmidt 2010, 13-18 June, 2010, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, Abstract series (A 1016)
• Guzmics, T., Mitchell, R.H., Szabó, Cs. & Berkesi, M. (2010) Carbonatite melt inclusions in coexisting magnetite, apatite and monticellite in Kerimasi carbonatite, Tanzania: implications for melt evolution. 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, August 21-27, 2010, Budapest, Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica, Abstract Series, 559.
• Berkesi, M., Dubessy, J., Kovács, I., Szabó, Cs., Perucchi, A. & Vaccari, L. (2010) Using different methods to determine the composition of upper mantle fluid inclusions from the Central Pannon basin. 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, August 21-27, 2010, Budapest, Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica, Abstract Series, 189.
• Berkesi, M., Szabó, Cs., Dubessy, J., Kovács, I. & Bodnar, R.J. (2010) Mantle mineral- and glass-hosted fluid inclusions in mantle xenoliths from the Central Pannonia Basin, Hungary: The significance to determine the bulk composition in CO2-rich system. 3rd Biennial Conference on Asian Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ACROFI III) and International Conference on Thermobarogeochemistry (TBG-XIV), September 15-20, 2010, Novosibirsk, Russia, Abstracts, 28-29.
• Pintér, Zs., Kovács, I., Berkesi, M., Szabó, Cs., Tene Djoukam, J.F., Tchouankoue, J.-P. & Perucchi, A. (2011) Unique, phlogopite- and amphibole-bearing fluid inclusions in upper mantle xenoliths from Cameroon Volcanic Line, European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ECROFI-XXI) Montanuniversitat Leoben, Austria, 9-11 August, 2011, Abstracts, 158-159.
• Káldos, R., Berkesi, M., Hidas, K., Yang, K. & Szabó, Cs. (2011) CO2- SO2-H2O fluid inclusions in peridotite xenoliths from Jeju Island (South Korea), European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ECROFI-XXI) Montanuniversitat Leoben, Austria, 9-11 August, 2011, Abstract, 112-113.
• Guzmics, T., Berkesi, M., Mitchell, R.H., Milke, R. & Szabó, Cs. (2011) Melt inclusions in co-precipitated perovskite, nepheline and magnetite in Kerimasi pyroxene-nephelinite, Tanzania. European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ECROFI-XXI), 9-11 August, 2011, Leoben, Austria, Abstracts, 98-99.
• Berkesi, M., Guzmics, T., Szabó, C. and Dubessy, J. (2011): Advantage of the use of Focused Ion Beam technique to specify mantle fluid inclusions. ECROFI-XXI (European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions), Abstracts, 158-159.
• Guzmics, T., Mitchell, R.H., Berkesi, M., Szabó, Cs. & Milke, R. (2011) Melt inclusions in coexisting perovskite, nepheline, magnetite and clinopyroxene in pyroxene melilitolite from Kerimasi Volcano, Tanzania. Mineralogical Magazine, Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2011, 961.
• Berkesi, M., Guzmics, T., Szabó, C. and Dubessy, J. (2011): The advantage of the use of Focused Ion Beam technique to specify the mantle fluid inclusions. Mineralogical Magazine, Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2011, A518.
• Kovács, I., Falus, Gy., Szabó, Cs., Pintér, Zs., Mihály, J., Németh, Cs., Berkesi, M. & Völgyesi, P. (2012) Tracing the fossil lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary beneath the Carpathian-Pannonian region. European Mineralogical Conference 2012, Vol.1, EMC2012-665-1.
• Pintér, Zs., Kovács, I., Berkesi, M., Szabó, Cs., Németh, Cs., Mihály, J., Perucchi, A. & Vaccari, A. (2012) Multiple application of FTIR spectroscopy for nominally anhydrous mantle minerals and their fluid inclusions in mantle xenoliths from the Cameroon Volcanic Line, Cameroon. European Mineralogical Conference 2012, Vol.1, EMC2012-691.
• Berkesi, M., Pintér, Zs., Káldos, R., Park, M., Guzmics, T., Czuppon, Gy. & Szabó, Cs. (2012) CO2-rich fluids in the mantle: a comparative fluid inclusion study. 5th Mineral Sciences in the Carpathians Conference and 3rd Central-European Mineralogical Conference, 20–21 April, 2012, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary, Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica, Abstract Series, 16.
• Berkesi, M., Pintér, Zs., Káldos, R., Park, M., Szabó, Cs., Dubessy, J., Guzmics, T.& Czuppon, Gy. (2012) The significance of the use of Raman microspectroscopy on understanding CO2-rich fluids in the mantle: a comparative fluid inclusion study. GEORAMAN 10, June 11-13, 1012, Nancy, France, Abstract, 95-96.
• Berkesi, M., Szabó, Cs., Guzmics, T., Pintér, Zs., Káldos, R., Dubessy, J., Munjae, P. & Czuppon, Gy. (2012) CO2-rich fluids in the mantle: a comparative fluid inclusion study. 22nd V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, June 24-29, 2012, Montréal, Canada, Abstracts, 1477.
• Berkesi, M., Káldos, R., Park, M., Szabó, Cs., Török, K., Németh, B., & Czuppon, Gy. (2013) Raman spectroscopic behavior of nitrogen in CO2-rich fluid inclusions. European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ECROFI-XXII), June 7-9, 2013, Antalya, Turkey, Abstracts, 204-205.
• Pintér, Zs., Kovacs, I., Konc, Z., Berkesi, M., Szabó, C., Perucchi, A., Mihály, J., Németh, C. & Patkó, L. (2014) Multiple application of FTIR spectroscopy for nominally anhydrous mantle minerals and their fluid inclusions in mantle xenoliths from the Cameroon Volcanic Line, Cameroon. IMA, 1-5 September, Johannesburg (South-Africa), Abstracts, 55.