Helena Bujdáková

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia

Prof. Helena Bujdáková, PhD, is a full professor of Microbiology and the Head of the Department of Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia. She is an expert in long-standing research focused on microbial biofilms, particularly those formed by yeasts of Candida spp. and bacteria of Staphylococcus aureus. In recent years, her work expanded to a study of photodynamic inactivation, an alternative strategy against microbial biofilms. She has led numerous national and international projects through bilateral EU partnerships. She was the principal investigator on the Horizon 2020 project CEMBO (WIDESPREAD-05‑2020; project No. 952398): “Excellence in the research area of Combating and Evaluation of Mixed Biofilms”. She has also been awarded Fulbright and JSPS fellowships for research and teaching stays in the USA and Japan. Since 2016, she has served as President of the Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology (CSSM), a joint organization of microbiologists from the Slovak and Czech Republic that is affiliated with FEMS. Currently, she represents CSSM as a delegate to FEMS. Most recently, she was elected to the Executive Committee of the ESCMID Study Group for Biofilms. She has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles indexed in Web of Science.

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