Curriculum vitae
Personal data:
born on December 21, 1970 at Svidník, former Czechoslovakia, married since 1993, one son
Education:
- 1978-1989: elementary and grammar school, Svidník
- 1989, June - July: Public observatory, Roztoky (close to Svidník)
- 1989-1994: Comenius University Bratislava, Master of Science in Physics
- 1994-1997: Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, graduate studies
- 1998 March: Candidate of sciences - PhD equivalent
Work experience:
- 1997-2007: Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, researcher
- 2007-2008: University of Toronto, Canada, PDF through the Canadian Space Agency
- 2009-2010: Fridrich Schiller Universiteit Jena, Germany, M.Curie senior fellow
- since December 2010: Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, researcher
- since December 2013: Head of the Stellar Department
Foreign stays:
- 1997,2000,2001: three stays at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (1 month in total)
- 1998-2005: six stays at Osservatorio Astron. di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy (5 months in total)
- 2003,2004: two stays at Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium (5 weeks in total)
- 2005-2011: six stays at David Dunlap Obs., University of Toronto, Canada (10 months in total)
- 2007: Beijing Normal Univeristy, China, (1 week)
- 2011 Observatorie de Paris, Meudon, France (3 weeks)
- 2012: NRIAG Helwan, Egypt (2 weeks)
- 2012-2016: seven stays at Thueringen Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Germany (2 months in total)
- 2015: European Southern Observatory, Santiago de Chile (3 weeks)
Observing experience:
- 2005-2008: regular observing with 1.88m telescope, David Dunlap
Observatory, Toronto, Canada, long-slit spectroscopy od close binary stars
- 2008: 2 runs, 2.5m Du Pont telescope, Las Campanas Observatory, Chile, échelle spectroscopy
of MOST eclipsing binaries, contact binaries and components of visual stars
- 2009-2010: 3 runs, 1.5m Hexapod telescope, Cerro Armazones Observatory,
Chile, échelle spectroscopy of A-F main-sequence dwarfs
- 2010: 2.2m telescope, Calar Alto, Spain, photometry and long-slit
spectroscopy of an exoplanet candidate in Tr-37
Teaching:
- 1998 and 2002: lectures at University of P.J.Šafárik, Košice (theoretical astrophysics, double stars, variable stars)
- Supervisor of 3 master theses, 3 PhD theses
Publications/Refereeing:
- About 150 scientific publications, most of them in CC
- More than 1200 citations (about 850 registered in WOS)
- Referee of 40 papers submitted to international journals
- Referee of 4 Slovak grant projects, 3 international projects
Recent organization activities:
- Vice-president of IAU commission 42 (Close Binary Stars) until 2015
- Chair of LOC of IAUS282 (July 18-22, 2011, Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia)
- Chair of SOC of workshop "Observing techniques, instrumentation and science for metre class telescopes" (September 21-24, 2013,
Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia)
- Member of SOC of conference "Living together: Planets, Host Stars and binaries" (September 8-12, 2014,
Litomyšl, Czech Republic)
- 2012 - 2016: member of the VEGA grant agency commission No. 2
Prizes:
- Prize of Minister of education of Slovak republic for science and
technology in 2004
- Prize of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for young researchers (2004)
- Certificate of Appreciation awarded by the Canadian Space Agency (2014)
- Prize of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for developing of
infrastructure (2015, group: Svoreň, Kučera, Bobulová, Pribulla)