Personal

• Place and date of birth: Budapest, 12th, February 1981.
• Nationality: Hungarian
• E-mail: dora.drexler [at] uni-corvinus.hu

Education

• 1987: Started inBudapest (in Hungarian language)
• 1987-1989: Followed in NewYork (mother got a grant as research fellow in the USA, where attended the firsttwo classes in English).
• 1989-1995: Rest of theelementary school in Budapest
• 1995-1999: TáncsicsSecondary School in Budapest, in a class specialised in biology and Germanlanguage
• 1999: Maturation,in Hungarian language, with golden degree of the Táncsics Medal
• 1999-2004: Faculty ofLandscape Architecture, Protection and Development of the University ofHorticulture in Budapest. Diploma in Landscape Architecture with excellentgrading.
• 2000-2004: Grant of theHungarian Republic
• 2001-2002:Ten months studyat the Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning of theTechnische Universität in Munich, at the branch of environmental planning withthe grant of the German Academic Service of Student Exchange (DeutscheAkademische Austauschdienst – DAAD).
• 2003:Scholarshipfor Ecological Sciences of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and WaterConservancy.
• 2004- Beginning ofPh.D. research. Topic: Analysis of the correlations between landscapeperceptions and actual landscape development tendencies in different Europeancountries.

Research work

• 2001: Interdisciplinary research of microelements, to study the protectiveeffect of wines against oxidative stress at the microelement level, performed incooperation between the Department of Applied Chemistry of the University ofHorticulture (with the aim of Prof. Peter Fodor, Ph.D., D.Sc.) and the2nd Department of Internal Medicine of the Semmelweis University(with leadership of Prof. Janos Feher, Md., D.Sc.), Budapest.
• 2001- Specialstudies at Department of Landscape Planning and Regional Development. Leader:Prof. Dr. Attila Csemez.
• 2001-2002: Participation inthe project Landscape and Landscape Evaluation (Landschaft undLandschaftsbildbewertung) at the Faculty of Landscape Architecture and LandscapePlanning of the Technische Universität in Munich. Specialisation at the branchof environmental planning, passing the exams with best results. Written adissertation on the international relations of landscape aesthetics (Differencesof Landscape Perception, A comparison of the French, the German and theHungarian interpretation of Landscape – Unterschiede der Landschaftswahrnehmung,Komparative Betrachtung des Landschaftsverständnisses in Deutschland, Frankreichund Ungarn) that arouse the interest of the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
• 2002: Researching the relations betweenthe symbolic meaning of landscape and methods of landscape evaluation based on acomparison between France and Germany (Untersuchung des Zusammenhanges vonsymbolischen Bedeutungszuweisungen der Landschaft und Methodik derLandschaftsbewertung anhand des Vergleichs von Frankreich undDeutschland).
• 2002: Coordinatorin the work of the landscape image design for the settlement named Tököl(Hungary).
• 2002-2004: Undergraduateassistant at the Department of Landscape Planning and Regional Development.
• 2003:Participation in the Savaria Summer Course of Urban Studies with thesupport of the University. Actively working in the development of tourism at theLower-Ipoly Micro-Region.
• 2004:Participation in the planning of the park of the Hungarian WasteReduction Alliance (HUMUSZ).
• 2004- Participation in the INTERREG III.B LOTO Project(leader partner: Anna Rossi, Regione Lombardia) which aims to develop a newlandscape planning methodology for the Central-European region.

Prizes

• 1999: Goldendegree of the Táncsics Medal at maturation
• 2000-2004: Grant of theHungarian Republic (Result of the very excellent rigorosa of universitystudies)
• 2002: Nominationfor the “Best exchange student of the year”, Department for Landscape Ecology inthe Technische Universität München (with recommendation of Professor Dr. LudwigTrepl)
• 2002: Specialprize of the Section of Environmental Economy and Nature Protection at the 26th Hungarian NationalConference of students’ scientific circles
• 2003: Scholarshipfor Ecological Sciences of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and WaterConservancy.
• 2004: Specialprize of the Section of Landscape Protection and Landscape Architecture at the9th Hungarian National Conference for Students of EnvironmentSciences.
• 2004: Diploma-Prize of the Section for Landscape and Garden Architecture of theHungarian Chamber of Architecture.

Editorial work:

• 2002- Co-workerto the editorial staff of ‘Sport and Health Sciences’ with the help ofeditor-in-chief, Professor Dr. János Fehér.
• 2003: Organiserof the first village conference of the Micro-Region in October 2003 on thesubject of Village Tourism and Wine Tourism
  

Publications

1. Dr. János Fehér and Dóra Drexler 2001: Polyphenols in Wine. Borbarát.VI/2.
2. Dóra Drexler 2002: Unterschiede der Landschaftswahrnehmung,Komparative Betrachtung des Landschaftsverständnisses in Deutschland, Frankreichund Ungarn. In: Projekt „Landschaft und Landschaftsbildbewertung“Studentische Projektarbeit am Studiengang Landschaftsplanung, TechnischeUniversität München. Munich.
   URL: http://www.loek.agrar.tu-münchen.de/studium/ws_01/bericht_landschaftsbild.pdf
3. Dóra Drexler 2002: Untersuchung des Zusammenhanges vonsymbolischen Bedeutungszuweisungen der Landschaft und Methodik derLandschaftsbewertung anhand des Vergleichs von Frankreich und Deutschland.In: Projekt „Landschaft und Landschaftsbildbewertung“ Studentische Projektarbeitam Studiengang Landschaftsplanung, Technische Universität München. Munich. URL: http://www.loek.agrar.tu-münchen.de/studium/ws_01/bericht_landschaftsbild.pdf
4. Dóra Drexler 2002: Landscape’s Beauty – an AbsorbingEnjoyment… Sport and Health Sciences I/1.
5. Dóra Drexler 2003: Wilderness in the City – ConferenceReview. Sport and Health Sciences, II/1.
6. Dóra Drexler 2003: Landscape and its Evaluation. A Study of theRelationship of the Symbolical Meaning of Landscape and the Methods forLandscape Evaluation based on a Comparison of France, Germany and Hungary.26th National Conference of Students’ Scientific Circles, Hungarian-Englishsummary book of the lectures in the agrarian sciences section, University ofKaposvár, Kaposvár.
7. Dóra Drexler 2004: About the Beauty of ourLandscape. The Perception and Aesthetic Evaluation of the Complex EnvironmentalSystem of Landscape in France, Germany and Hungary. 9th NationalStudent Conference for Environmental Studies, Summary book of lectures, EötvösLoránd University, Budapest.
8. Dóra Drexler 2004: We, Landscape Architects?! Review. Sportand Health Sciences, III/1. (publication in process)
9. Dóra Drexler 2004: Age and Environment. Sport and HealthSciences, III/1. (publication in process
10. Drexler Dóra 2004: Landscape Perceptions – The Symbolic Meaningof Landscape and its Role in Mental Well-being. Full-paper at the OpenSpace: People Space Conference (27-30. October),Edinburgh.
11. Poster:
    • Petra Dollmayer, Dóra Drexler, DóraFöldesi, Márton Kéthelyi, András Prokopp, Lili Sziráki, Zsombor Tatai 2003: Park of the Waste Reduction Alliance,Hungary. 3rd European Landscape Biennial, Barcelona.
    • Dóra Drexler 2004: Landscape Design of the Danube Plaza.MKTSZ Youth Section. Exhibition We, Landscape Architects?!,Budapes
12. Part of a book: Dóra Drexler 2003: Landscape’s Beauty – an AbsorbingEnjoyment…In: Enjoyment of Life, Way of Living, Építésügyi TájékoztatásiKözpont, Budapest.

Lectures

1. Landscape’s Beauty – an AbsorbingEnjoyment… Conference‘Enjoyment of Life, Way of Living 2002’, Bükfürdő, 2002.
2. Landscape and its Evaluation. A Study of theRelationship of the Symbolical Meaning of Landscape and the Methods forLandscape Evaluation based on a Comparison of France, Germany andHungary. 26th NationalConference of Students’ Scientific Circles, Kaposvár,2003.
3. Essence and Possibilities of WineTourism. 1st Festive VillageConference of the Lower-Ipoly Micro-Region, Ipolyszalka, Slovakia2003.
4. Development Possibilities of Tourism in the Ister-GranumEuroregion. (in Germanlanguage) Danubian Touristic Regions Commission, Esztergom,2003.
5. Ageand Environment. Conference‘Enjoyment of Life, Way of Living 2003’, Bükfürdő, 2003.
6. About the beauty of our Landscape. 9th National Student Conferencefor Environmental Studies, Budapest, 2004.
7. Landscape Perceptions. INTERREG III. B CADSES LOTO Project Seminar,Tolentino, Italy, 2004.
8. TheSymbolic Meaning of Landscape and its Role in Mental Well-being. Open Space: People SpaceConference, Edinburgh, (27-30. October) 2004.
9. TheRole of Landscape Architecture in the Health of Children andYouth. Conference ‘Enjoymentof Life, Way of Living 2004’, Bükfürdő (10-12. November)2004.
10. TheRelations between Landscape Perception and the Picture ofLandscape. LandscapeConference of the Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, (18. November)2004.

Society activities

• 2002: Member ofthe Hungarian Association for Urban Studies
• 2003: Member ofthe Youth Section of the Society of Hungarian Garden Architects and LandscapePlanners
• 2003: Member ofthe the Bolyai Self-educating Workshop

Hobby

• 1998- Contractwith the agency Attractive Elite Models, fashion agency, modeling in Paris andMilan