Attila Ősi (born 12 May 1980) is a Hungarian geologist and paleontologist.Ősi, Attila, dnb.de He is one of the discoverers of the Iharkút Cretaceous vertebrate site in the Bakony Mountains and has led its excavations since 2000. He is currently a research fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Hungarian Natural History Museum Paleontology Research Group.
Career Ősi became interested in paleontology as a high school student in Ajka, where he and friends collected fossils in the Bakony region. After winning a national geology competition, he entered Eötvös Loránd University in 1999 without entrance exams. In 2000, he and a colleague discovered vertebrate remains in the Iharkút bauxite mine, leading to the identification of a rich Late Cretaceous vertebrate site. He organized annual excavations, which continue under his leadership. He received his MSc in geology in 2003, with a thesis on the Late Cretaceous dinosaur fauna of Hungary, and earned his PhD in 2006 with a dissertation on heterodont crocodiles.;
In 2010, Ősi and his team unearthed an 85-million-year-old ceratopsian, later named Ajkaceratops.
Awards (2010, science category)
References
External links MTA – Attila Ősi profile