Education and examination record:

1979 – 1983: Grammar and high school, Čadca

1983 – 1988: Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Virology (Ms.D. in Microbiology)

1988 – 1993: Postgraduate study

1994:  CSc. degree (equal to PhD. in Microbiology)

2001: Habilitation for the degree of Associate Professor

Awards, prizes and invited lectures:

1995: award from the Federation of European Microbiological Societies spent in 2 month’s stay at Institute of Hygiene, University of Innsbruck, Austria

1998: award from The European Societies of Chemotherapy for the participation at 2^nd European Congress of Chemotherapy in Hamburg, 1998

1998: award for the young scientists from the European Societies of Chemotherapy-study stay in Innsbruck, Austria

1999: distinction as excellent young scientist conceded by the Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

2000: Fulbright fellowship for 4-month research/teaching stay at Ohio State Univ., USA

2003: JSPS fellowship for 2-month’s stay at Research Center for Pathogenic Fungi and Microbial Toxicoses at Chiba University, Japan

2009: invited lecture to 37th Annual Conference on Yeasts, Smolenice, Slovakia

2012: invited lecture to CESAR (Central European Symposium on Antimicrobials and Antimicrobial Resistance), Primošten, Croatia

2013: invited lecture to Power of Microbes in Industry and Environment, Primošten, Croatia; plenary session on the 26th Congress of the Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology

2015: invited lecture to ECCMID, Copenhagen, Denmark; invited lecture to Fourth Congress on Microbial Biofilm – Eurobiofilm, Brno, Czech Republic

Other:            

2008 – 2010: member of the Executive Committee of the Czechoslovak Society of Microbiology

2010 – present: vice-president of the Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology

2012 –  present: member of the ISHAM (International Society for Human and Animal Mycology)

Organization of the national conferences “What the new in Microbiology” (2012, 2013, 2014)

Organization of the international conference “Hot Topics of Microbiology” included in the FEMS events (2015)

Member of the Commission for Education in Microbiology created by FEMS

Published more than 50 articles in CC journals cited about 300 times

Employment record:

1989 – present: Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Virology

Since September 2010: the head of the Department of Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University