Alida Timar-Gabor

Professor of environmental radioactivity, Babeș-Bolyai University (BBU), Romania.

Alida Timar-Gabor is a professor of environmental radioactivity at the Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babeș-Bolyai University (BBU), Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She earned her PhD in Physics in 2010 and her Habilitation in Environmental Science in 2015 at BBU. She pioneered the application of absolute dating methods for sediments in Romania and established the Luminescence Dating, Electron Spin Resonance Dating, and Cathodoluminescence Scanning Electron Microscopy Laboratories, which she currently leads. Her research focuses on trapped charge dating methods and their geological applications. To date, she has successfully supervised over a dozen PhD students in environmental science. In 2015, she was awarded a ERC Starting Grant for the INTERTRAP project, which conducted geochronological investigations of past climate records across four continents. This work significantly improved the understanding of both the potential and limitations of trapped charge dating methods. She is currently leading the PROGRESS project, funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant, which focuses on developing fingerprinting methods based on defects in quartz.