Katalin Csatadi

Position: Shape—Southeast Europe Committee Member

Katalin has been involved in zoo work since 1993 when she joined the Budapest Zoo as a volunteer zoo keeper at age 15. She spent over 10 years looking after marsupials, monkeys and nocturnal animals during her free time and these early years gave a firm foundation to her professional career. Katalin studied as a biologist and specialised as an animal behaviourist when doing her PhD. 

During her studies she spent four months studying the behaviour of captive bonobos at Planckendael Wild Animal Park in Belgium with relation to enrichment. Later on she started working as Research Assistant at Chester Zoo, UK and studied the behaviour of blue poison-dart frogs with relation to feeding enrichment. After Chester she took a field Research Assistant position at the Max Planck Institute and this time studied the behaviour of wild bonobos in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The experience at the different international institutions led her to the Jane Goodall Institute Hungary where she has been Vice-President since 2006. Her role is to oversee and coordinate the conservation and education related projects the institute implements and to lead the Africa program of the Institute that focuses on community centred conservation in Eastern DRC. She is also committee member at the ChimpanZoo project of JGI that works for the welfare of captive chimpanzees all around the world.

Katalin has been member of Shape-SEE since 2010 and would like to use her zoo/field experience in involving East European zoo keepers in applied envrionmental enrichment. 

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