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2021 – present	Director of the Institute Technical University of Kosice, Faculty of materials, Metallurgy and Recycling, Institute of Recycling Technologies, Letná 9, 042 00 Košice
2014 – present	Associate Professor Technical University of Kosice, Faculty of materials, Metallurgy and Recycling (until 30.06.2017 Faculty of Metallurgy), Institute of Recycling Technologies( until 31.01.2016 epartment of Non-Ferrous Metals and Waste Treatment), Letná 9, 042 00 Košice Study field: Environmental engineering
2009 – 2014	Assistant Professor Technical University of Kosice, Faculty of Metallurgy, Department of Non-Ferrous Metals and Waste Treatment, Letna 9, 042 00 Kosice Study field: Environmental engineering
2007 – 2010	PhD. Technical University of Kosice, Faculty of Metallurgy, Department of Non-Ferrous Metals and Waste Treatment, Letna 9, 042 00 Kosice Study field: Environmental engineering
2002 – 2007	Master's study Department of Non-ferrous Metals and Waste Treatment, Faculty of Metallurgy, Technical University of Košice Study field: Environmental engineering
1994 – 2002	Gymnazium Jána Amosa Komenského, Košice

Scientific activities

• Web of Science:
• h-index = 7
• Number of publications: 16
• Number of citations: 374
• SCOPUS:
• h-index = 8
• Number of publications: 25
• Number of citations: 483

National projects

• UNIVNET – University and Industrial Research and Educational Platform of the Recycling Society, Research on battery recycling, 2020 – 2022.
• Treatment of industrial wastes based on zinc, tin and lead to obtain marketable products - RECWAZ (APVV-14-0591), member of the research team, duration 2015 – 2019.
• Material recycling of sorted components of municipal waste containing metals. Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Slovak Republic and SAS (VEGA)(VEGA) VEGA 1/0724/17, zodpovedný riešiteľ, duration 2017 – 2019.
• 2014 - 2016: Material waste recycling with critical materials content, scientific grant agency, Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of SR and Slovak Academy of Science, (VEGA) 1/0293/14
• 2011 - 2013: Treatment and recycling of steel-making dust with heavy non-ferrous metals content, project VEGA MŠ SR 1/0123/11.
• Complex processing of primary and secondary raw materials in order to obtain useful components, especially non-ferrous metals, Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Slovak Republic and SAS (VEGA) 1/0087/08, member of the research team, duration 2008 - 2010.
• 2006 - 2009: Utilizable substances recovery by effective aluminium by-products treatment – aluminium drosses, Project APVV

International projects

• Horizon 2020 – Research and Innovation Framework Programme: H2020-SC5-2016-OneStageB, member of the research team, duration 2016 – 2019.
• ReCoMet – Research Cooperation Metal Recycling, funded by BMBF (Federal Ministery of Education and Research) call within the framework of the Federal Government’s Strategy for the Internationalization of Science and Research in the funding program “Establishment and Expansion of Joint Research Structures in Europe”, member of the research team, 2015 – 2017.
• Recycling of printed circuit boards from used consumer equipment, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst a MŠVVaŠ SR, member of the research team, year 2015.
• Treatment of printed circuit boards, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst a MŠVVaŠ SR, member of the research team, year 2012.

Pedagogical activity

• Secondary Raw Materials and Waste
• Hydrometallurgical processes
• Precious and Rare Metals
• Recycling Technologies

Seminars and courses

• Padagogical course (the IGIP engineering education model)
• WISE – TC 2 - Substance Cycle waste management, 09. – 14. March 2008, Monschau, Germany.

Awards

• EKO 2011 – 3. miesto v národnom kole v kategórií: „Organizácie a zamestnanci organizácií“
• Best doctoral thesis in the framework of the "Week of science in Slovakia in the year 2008" at the Technical University in Košice, Slovakia

Stays abroad

• Exchange program of the Ministry of education, science, research and sport SR, Slovak Academy of Sciences and the German Academic Exchange service, (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst– DAAD), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, 19.10. – 18.11. 2015.
• Exchange program of the Ministry of education, science, research and sport SR, Slovak Academy of Sciences and the German Academic Exchange service, (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst– DAAD), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, 01.10 – 31.10 2012
• Erasmus mobility of teachers, National Technical University of Athens/ School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Atény, Grécko, 06. – 17. 09. 2010
• WISE – TC 2 – Substance Cycle Waste Management, 09. – 14. 04. 2008, Monschau, Germany.

Other professional activity

Membership

• President of the association Slovak Iron Trail – from 2019
• Vice-president of the Association of Mining Societies and Guilds of Slovakia – from 2022
• President of the associacion Mining and Metallurgical Guilt in Kosice – from 2020
• WASTE – Secondary Raw Materials 5, International conference, Liptovský Ján, jún 2013, Slovak Republic
• 6^th International Conference Kammel´s Quo Vadis Hydrometallurgy 6, Herlany, jún 2012, Slovenská republika - member of the Organizing Committee
• 5^th International Conference Kammel’s Quo Vadis Hydrometallurgy 5, Herľany, máj 2008, Slovenská republika – member of the Organizing Committee
• International conference: Recycling of spent portable batteries and accumulators, 21. – 24. April 2009, Sklene Teplice, Slovakia.
• Cechovácia KNKaSO/IRT - Permanent member of the Organizing Committee and active participation as the Famous High and Infallible Presidium (from 2007 to the present)

Publishing activities

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actualized: 7.7.2022