I was born in Brezno, the Slovak Republic (at that time part of the
former Czechoslovakia), in 1965.
After having finished the study at the
Comenius University in Bratislava
(
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics)
I have been working at the
Astronomical Institute of the
Slovak Academy of Sciences in
Tatranska Lomnica.
My main field of research were chemically peculiar stars.
During 1999-2000 I was working at ULO and
University College London
on NLTE abundance analysis and NLTE radiative accelerations
in the atmospheres of hot stars (host: Mike Dworetsky).
In 2003-2006 I was at
the Penn State University
working on synthetic spectra and Doppler tomography of
interacting binaries (host: Mercedes Richards).
In 2006-2007 I was studying brown dwarfs and extrasolar
planets at
the University of Arizona
(host: Adam Burrows, Ivan Hubeny).
Apart from astronomy, mountains and any outdoor activity used to be
my major hobby.
I have a lovely daughter Barborka, son Kubko and wife Anicka.