Emese Bordy is a Full Professor of Geology at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She received her PhD from Rhodes University, after an MSc from Eötvös University, Hungary. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the Evolutionary Science Institute in Johannesburg, following which she lectured geology at Rhodes University until 2011.

Her research in clastic sedimentology focuses on quantifying biogeographic and palaeoecological processes as archived primarily in the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic depositional record of southern Africa. She appreciates the opportunities her expertise in sedimentary geology, stratigraphy and continental ichnology affords for collaborations with experts from various Earth Science fields. She enjoys her editorial work at academic journals and is passionate about mentoring the next generation of Earth scientists, having supervised >50 postgraduate students, including PhDs and postdocs.

To-date, Professor Bordy published >90 ISI-listed research papers and book chapters, which attracted >2300 citations. After two decades in academia, her h-index is 28 in Google Scholar and 24 in Scopus. For the list of papers, see her ORCID profile (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4699-0823).