Borbala Biro


Borbala Biro married as Borbala Biro Pacsutan is a Hungarian biologist and agricultural scientist with a doctorate and habilitation from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a university lecturer in biological sciences at the Szent-István-University in Gödöllö. In the framework of numerous research programmes on scientific farming she is involved in the Biofector Projekt with the University of Hohenheim.

Life and work

Biro was educated at primary school in Szabolcs Szatmar from 1964–1972 and then at high school from 1972 to 1975, followed by studies at the vocational college in Kisvárda. From 1975 to 1980 she studied at the Natural Science Faculty of the University of Kossuth Lajos, finishing with a qualification in biology, specialising in terrestrial ecology. She then obtain a Dr. phil. in1983, a further qualification in biological science in 1989 and a PhD C.Sc. in 1997. Gödöllő University, habilitation with Venia Legendi for Plant Cultivation and Horticulture at the West Hungarian University in Mosonmagyaróvár, followed by a Doctorate of the Hungarian Academy of Science - Budapest 2006.
Borbala Biro is married to János Pacsuta and they have three children.
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