Head and shoulders passport photo of Dr. Zoltan (Zoli) Hajnal, professor of Geological Sciences.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Zoltan (Zoli) Hajnal was born in Cegled, Hungary, a small town 60 km from Budapest. He received his elementary and high school education in his homeland and was a fourth-year student at the University of Sopron in 1956 when the Hungary revolution broke out. After the revolution Dr. Hajnal left Hungary and made his way to Canada and Saskatchewan. He completed his post-secondary education at the University of Saskatchewan where he obtained a BEng in Geophysics in 1961, and an MA in Geophysics in 1963, both at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Hajnal then worked as an interpretation geophysicist for Chevron Standard in Calgary from 1963-1965 but went back to academia to obtain his PhD in Seismology from the University of Manitoba in 1970. On completion of his PhD. Dr. Hajnal returned to the U of S as a faculty member. Dr. Hajnal has authored or co-authored some 90 papers, about half of which have pertain to research carried out on surficial sediments or lithospheric and mantle materials underlying Saskatchewan (2021).