Prior to joining UNU-EHS, Dr. Zita Sebesvari worked on environmental monitoring and remediation projects in the Institute for Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany as well as on chemical and microbial signalling processes in the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment in Oldenburg.
Dr. Sebesvari gained more than seven years of fieldwork experience in Vietnam in the frame of the German-Vietnamese WISDOM. She was involved in the IWQGES project which aims to develop International Water Quality Guidelines for Ecosystems on behalf of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP). Currently she executes UNU-EHS’ activities for the Belmont Forum and DFG funded DELTAS project aiming to develop a global delta vulnerability index (GDVI) with case studies in Vietnam, Bangladesh and Brazil and the German-Vietnamese DeltAdapt project aiming to find sustainable solutions for agricultural adaptation to salinity intrusion in delta systems.