András Báldi

András Báldi is a Hungarian academician focusing on the fields of ecology and conservation biology. His research group focuses on studying the impact of land use and management practices on pollination, biological pest control, and soil decomposition, mostly in agricultural settings. Báldi holds a prominent position in conservation biology on a European scale. He served as the president of the Society for Conservation Biology – Europe, chaired the organizing committee for the inaugural European Congress for Conservation Biology in 2006, and the scientific committee for the ECCB in 2012 and 2022. Báldi currently holds the position of Chair of the Advisory Board for the European Biodiversity Partnership (Biodiversa+) and is also the Section Chair for Ecology and Evolution at Academia Europaea. He served as a member of the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel for the Intergovernmental Science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). He held the position of the first director of the Centre for Ecological Research at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Báldi published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, including some in leading journals like Science, Nature Communications or Conservation Biology. More information: https://ecosystem-services.ecolres.hu/people/baldi-andras