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## Meet the editor

Dr. Levente Hufnagel is an associate professor and the head of the Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Ecotheology, John Wesley Theological College, Budapest, Hungary, working on ecology, biogeography, ecological research methodology, and sustainability. He has more than 20 years of experience in leading Hungarian academic institutions teaching Ph.D., MSc, and BSc students from various social and cultural backgrounds. He

has more than 300 scientific publications (in both aquatic and terrestrial ecological aspects of plants, animals, and microbes at both the community and population levels) and more than 1100 independent citations to his credit. As a participant in several big ecological research and development projects, Dr. Hufnagel has significant experience in multidisciplinary collaborations (with more than 200 coauthors in different publications). He has supervised several Ph.D., BSc, and MSc theses, and served as editor in chief of an international scientific journal. Dr. Hufnagel graduated from Eötvös Lorand University with a master's degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a Ph.D. in Hydrobiology. He also has a Ph.D. in Agricultural Science from Szent István University, Hungary, and several other degrees from the Corvinus University of Budapest and Adventist Theological College.

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