CURRICULUM VITAE. 11. Years in the field: 17 years analytical laboratory and 12 years project management

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1 1. Family name: RUZSA 2. First names: GYONGYI 3. Date of birth: 23 rd of February, Nationality: Romanian citizen 5. Civil status: Single, 1 child 6. Education: UNIVERSITY GRADUATED CURRICULUM VITAE Institution Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: [Date from - Date to] University of Bucharest ( ) BSc in Chemistry (1988) MSc in Chemistry (1989) 7. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 - excellent; 5 - basic) Language Reading Speaking Writing English German Romanian Hungarian mother tongue 8. Membership of professional bodies: Voting member of Scientific Council of the National Research and Development Institute for Environmental Protection of the Romanian Ministry for Environment and Water Management, Bucharest ( ); Expert for the National Commission for Nuclear Accidents and Radiological Emergencies, Bucharest ( ); Member of International Commission for the Scientific Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea (Commission Internationale pour l Exploration Scientifique de la mer Méditerranée - CIESM), since 1994; Member of the Romanian Society for Radiation Protection, since Other skills: (e.g. Computer literacy, etc.): MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); Internet software: Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer 10. Qualification and level: Senior research scientist / mid level management 11. Years in the field: 17 years analytical laboratory and 12 years project management 12. Key qualifications: Management of projects in controlled environment; Practical experience in coordination of national reference laboratory for analysis of environmental samples (under ISO 9001/2000 accreditation); Excellent experience in co-ordination of national and international working groups; Excellent organizational abilities; Practical experience in working with international organisation (EC, IAEA, NATO/CCMS); Excellent experience in environmental monitoring programmes (source related and widespread pollutants) design, development and implementation; High expertise in performing sampling strategies, sample preparation and measurement methodologies under routine and emergency conditions; QA/QC in environmental analytical laboratories (ISO 9001, ISO 17025) planning and implementation; qualified internal auditor under ISO 17025; Excellent experience in elaboration and management of national and international technical assistance and research programmes; Extended experience in biogeochemical cycling of pollutants in terrestrial and aquatic environments; Excellent practical knowledge of the European Union and Romanian environmental research, monitoring and legal framework; Capability to carry out off-site emergency planning, preparedness and response development and operation of emergency response programmes for national environmental network; Good performance in environmental impact assessment and environmental auditing, also pre-operational studies for facilities. 13. Specific experience in the region: Country Date from - Date to Romania National Reference Laboratory for Environmental Radioactivity (Ministry of Environment and Water Management), (May 1990 December 2005); EC Phare 2003 project Implementation of an adequate national environmental radioactivity monitoring and reporting system (June 2002 December 2005); EC Phare multi-country project zz 6.01/99 Enhancement of Romania s off-site emergency preparedness, related to Cernavoda and Kozlodui NPP s (January 2001-December 2005); 1

2 EU-FP6 Harmonization of techniques and methodologies for monitoring of radioactivity levels in the environment ( ). Model project - Regional technical assistance programme of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): IAEA TC-RER/2/003 Marine Environmental Assessment of the Black Sea Region ( ); IAEA national technical assistance project: TC-ROM/9/012 Upgrading of environmental radioactivity lab ( ); EC Phare EU/AR/103 project Impact of radionuclides on water and sediment from the lower Danube basin ( ); EC Phare EU/AR/302/91 The European River-Ocean System EROS Danube Research ( ); NATO/CCMS Pilot study Radioactive contamination of rivers and transport through rivers, deltas and estuaries to the sea ( ); IAEA national research project: IAEA RC 5786/rb Monitoring of gamma emitter radionuclides in sediment and water sampled along the Romanian sector on the Danube, in the Danube Delta and the Black Sea ( ); IAEA regional research progarmme: IAEA RC 7331/rb Study on the behavior of natural and artificial radionuclides in the North-Western Black Sea Region. Source term and inventory evaluation ( ); EU FP5 project QLRT Placental uptake and transfer of environmental chemicals relating to allergy in childhood years (March 2001 March 2006). Ukraine IAEA, National expert for analysis of marine environment samples (November 2002) European Union EURDEP (European Data Exchange Platform) National contact point for environmental data reporting at European Commission (June December 2005) Republic of Moldova DOEN Foundation - WWW International Danube-Carpathian Programme Ecological Rehabilitation of the Lower Prut Scientific Reserve in Moldova (January October World Wide Found for Nature Intl. 2006) UNDP-GEF 1.4 Danube Regional Integrated Land Use Assessment and Inventory of Protected Areas for Elan/Prut, Romania (January-October 2006); MAVA Foundation The Lower Danube Green Corridor (January-October 2006). 14. Professional experience Date Location Company Position Description March present November 2005 February 2008 January October 2006 Bucharest GeoEcoMar Head of Management Office Bucharest RADAL ltd. Head of Environmental Research and Consultancy Department Vienna WWF International DCP Consultant- Fresh Water Programme Coordinator for Romania and Republic of Moldova Co-ordinate and supervise of the management of project portofolio Provide strategy and leadership toward implementation of companies objectives; Planning and day by day supervision of work; reporting to the board; Set-up of analytical laboratory for determination of pollutants level in water, soil, air and biota; Direct co-ordination of international projects. Responsible for WWF s freshwater related works in Romania; Responsible for initiation of WWF s conservation activities in the Republic of Moldova; Key person for policy work on national and regional level; regular contacts with Romanian and Moldavian governments. November December 2005 Bucharest Environmental Radioactivity Laboratory NEPA Head of national reference laboratory Day by day co-ordination and supervise of work at the national reference laboratory; Co-ordinator of the National Environmental Radioactivity Surveillance Network (comprising 37 territorial laboratories and operated under the authority of the Ministry of Environment and Water Management ( ); Establish the required expertise and infrastructure to provide accurate measurement for environmental monitoring; Setting priorities for equipment investment (establish the technical specification and supervise preparation of tender documentation for equipment acquiring; establish acceptance criteria for equipment); Identification and definition of training needs (target group and number of personnel; type of 2

3 May 1990 October 2000 Senior research scientist course, workshops and scientific visits); Responsible for regular reporting of environmental data to decision makers at national and international level; Co-ordination of the working group for elaboration of Quality Assurance Manual according to ISO for the national reference laboratory for measurement of radioactivity in the environment; Design and implementation of national monitoring programmes for widespread radionuclides and of source-related surveillance programmes (NORM s, TENORM s and nuclear facilities); Elaboration of legal gap analyses and legislative framework (elaboration of ministerial order for establishment of organizational procedures of NERSN); Management of national and international research projects on study of dynamics, transfer and biogeochemical cycling of radionuclides; Elaboration of methodological guidelines and generic procedures for NERSN operation under both routine and emergency conditions; Participation in IAEA and EC international intercomparison exercises; Organization and coordination of national intercomparison exercises; Development and implementation of measurement procedures for determination of transuranics in environmental samples; High-resolution gamma spectrometry and alpha spectrometry on environmental samples. 15. Other relevant information Participation in selected projects financed from international or foreign sources: Position/ Activities performed Period EC, Phare 2003 The implementation of an adequate environmental radioactivity monitoring network and reporting system Technical Coordinator The objective of the project was to improve the technical capacity of the existing National Environmental Radioactivity Surveillance Network and of the national reference laboratory to fulfil the national and EU requirements related to radiological surveillance, both under routine and emergency conditions; to provide adequate training in order to ensure the expertise required to carry-out the activities related to the operation of the radioactivity monitoring and reporting. June 2002 May 2005 Identification of the needs to align the Romanian environmental radioactivity network according to requirements of Euratom Treaty and in compliance with the basic safety standards established by the EU; Design the necessary network (grid density of measurement stations, necessary equipment, informational system, data acquisition, storage and transmission) including design of an early-warning system for Romania; Establish the required expertise and infrastructure to provide accurate measurement for environmental monitoring; Setting priorities for equipment investment; Identification and definition of training needs (target group and number of personnel; type of course, workshops and scientific visits); Identification and definition of needs for dissemination of environmental information at national level (target groups, decision makers, public information system, web-site design); Establishment of targets to be achieved and relevant performance indicators and identifiable success criteria; Preparation of the Phare standard fiche; Elaboration of the ToR s for TA and TS for supply of equipment for the implementation of an adequate environmental monitoring and reporting system. 3

4 August - November 2005 Member of Tenders Evaluation Commission for short-listing of applicant for technical assistance. Member of Tenders Evaluation Commission for supply of equipment. EC, Phare multicountry Enhancement of Romania s off-site emergency preparedness The project objective was the set-up of an early-warning system (comprising fully automatic, real-time gamma dose rate measuring stations) in the emergency planning zone related to the Bulgarian Kozloduy NPP and the Romanian Cernavoda NPP. Technical Coordinator May-July 2002 Technical expert September 2003 December 2005 Design of early-warning systems related to NPP s and establishment of locations for the gamma dose automatic stations; Elaboration of project and TS for equipment acquisition; Establishment of acceptance criteria for the equipment. Ensuring technical assistance for the contractor in the project implementation phase; Supervision of work performed by the contractor (system installation and commissioning). EC, Phare 2001 PPF Support with the preparation and identification of project specifications Technical assistance to Romania for preparation of the project: Upgrade and automation of the National Environmental Radioactivity Surveillance Network operated by the Ministry of Waters and Environmental Protection. Technical expert July-November 2001 January October 2002 Elaboration of the ToR s; Participation in evaluation of the tenders. Performing technical assistance for PPF experts. IAEA RER/2/003 Marine Environmental Assessment of the Black Sea Region This model project aimed to improve capabilities of laboratories from Black Sea countries to assess marine environmental pollution using nuclear techniques by providing equipment, expert service and training. Capability to analyse alpha-emitting radionuclides in marine samples were developed in selected laboratories in these countries, and once established this capability was applied to provide data on antrophogenic and natural alpha emitters. Commonly accepted methods were established and a regional QC programme was designed. Recommendations/guidelines were developed for an adequate monitoring strategy at regional level. A Black Sea radioactivity monitoring programme, co-ordinated at regional level was designed and implemented, being enforced by the1998 Monaco Declaration. The participating member states were: Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. manager for Romania ( ) Participation in developing and planning of project activities; Evaluation and co-ordination of national monitoring programmes existing in the Black Sea countries; Design and implementation of Black Sea regional monitoring programme; Co-ordination of the Task group Methodological guidelines for sampling and measurement of radionuclides in the Black Sea environment ; Define the needs of the national reference laboratory (Romania), both in terms of equipment and expertise; Implementation of high resolution alpha spectrometry at the National Reference Laboratory (Romania); Implementation of radiochemical procedures for Pu, Am and Po separation; Specific radioisotopic analyses on Danube and Black Sea samples (high resolution gamma spectrometry, Pu radioisotopes, Po 210 ); Planning and participation in the international scientific cruises organised by IAEA. Advisor to the Romanian Environmental Ministry for the Ministerial Declaration signed by Environmental Ministries from the Black Sea countries participating in the project, in 1998, under the auspices of IAEA. EC Phare EU/AR/103 project Impact of radionuclides on water and sediment from the lower Danube basin The general objective of this project was to assess whether or not potential upstream radionuclide sources in the countries of the lower part of the Danube basin have resulted in evidential downstream accumulation of radionuclides. A set of reference data for aquatic environmental radioactivity that indicates the level and distribution of radioactive manager for Romania ( ) Participation in developing the project activities planning; Determination of levels of natural and man made radionuclides in water and bottom sediments sampled at every 10 km along the lower Danube river and Danube Delta lakes; Intercomparison exercises between laboratories from riparian countries; Identification and inventory of potential sources of radioactive pollution in the Danube Basin (including a variety of industrial, medical and research applications of radioactive material, 4

5 contamination in the middle and lower Danube (Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine). Risk assessment was performed, in terms of the possible fate and pathways for further distribution of any accumulated radionuclides. Indisputable evidence was provided for accumulation of radionuclides from anthropogenic origin in (some of) the sedimentation areas of the lower Danube. including nuclear power stations); Recommendation for structure of monitoring networks of the Danube riparian states and concentrated actions to obtain regular reliable and comparable data on environmental contamination. Participants: Germany, Hungary, Romania. EC Phare EU/AR/302/91 The European River-Ocean System EROS Danube Research The goal of the project was to assess the environmental state of River Danube and its Delta and the interactions between the River Danube and the Black Sea. An almost exhaustive approach has been used for the first time in studying the Danube river and the Danube Delta ecosystems. The project focussed on the assessment of water, sediments and living matter quality, of the biotope characteristics, the study and the monitoring of water and sediment fluxes, the study of changes of all these elements under the impact of natural causes and anthropogenic activities, monitoring of the dynamics of the chemical and biological parameters within the year cycle to evaluate the basic trends in their annual variability. Director for Romanian subproject: Danube- Danube Delta radioactivity ( ) Participation in sampling cruises along the Danube and the Danube Delta; Specific radionuclidic analyses on water, sediment and biota sampled from 42 cross-sections along the River Danube, main 9 confluences with the main Romanian tributaries and the Danube and interdistributary depressions of the Danube Delta; Determination of sedimentation rates for Iron Gate reservoir lakes. Relevant seminars performed: Lecturer for the International School of Radioecology organized by the IUR, Romania (1996); Lecturer for Workshop on the off-site risk assessment for reactor accidents organized by IAEA and the University of Black Sea, Romania (1-6 July, 1996). Relevant postgraduate training attended: APM Group Change Ahead ltd Managing Successful s with Prince 2 TM, Dubai, UAE (December 5-13, 2006) Micron ltd Set-up and implementation of ISO 9001/2000 in analytical laboratories. Bucharest, Romania (October 11-12, 2004) EU-Phare 1996 Internal Auditors for Environmental Analytical Laboratories under ISO Bucharest, Romania (December 10-13, 2000) IAEA Workshop on assessment of alpha emitters in marine environmental samples. Istanbul, Turkey (November, 1996); IAEA Regional training course on strategies and methodologies for applied marine radioactivity and environmental isotope studies for the Black Sea region Istanbul, Turkey (November, 1994); USA National Academy of Science Romanian Academy twinning fellowship programme Practical training in use of radioactive tracers in oceanography - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (January-March, 1994); USA National Academy of Science Romanian Academy Summer school for young researchers in aquatic ecology Danube Delta, Romania (July, 1991) and Mississippi Delta, LUMCON, USA (July, 1992). 5