Vladimír Falťan

doc. RNDr. Vladimír Falťan, PhD.

e-mail vladimir.faltan (at) uniba.sk

telefón +421 2 9014 9431 
kancelária B1-458
www fns.uniba.sk/faltan

adresa
Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Prírodovedecká fakulta
Katedra fyzickej geografie a geoekológie
Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6
842 15 Bratislava 4

Academic Profile

Study 

1994 – 1999 master degree in biology and geography at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

1999 – 2002 PhD. in physical geography and geoecology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia


Work experiences

2002 – 2003 researcher at the Department of Landscape Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

since 2004 teacher at the Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

since 2013 Assoc. Professor of Physical Geography and Geoecology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia


International experiences

Bavarian Forest National Park (2005) – World Wildlife Found

Queen’s University Belfast (2006) – Socrates/Erasmus 

Prielbrusye National Park (2008)


Memberships

Member of executive committee of the Slovak Geographical Society

Research

  • Land Cover
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Terroir

Projects

The analysis of changes of chosen parameters in landscape system in the Tatra National Park area impacted by the wind disasters 
supported by Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of Slovak Republic and Slovak Academy of Science [grant number VEGA 1/3052/06]

Analysis of land cover changes in the context of environmental drivers 
supported by Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of Slovak Republic and Slovak Academy of Science [grant number VEGA 1/0421/16]

Creation of academic textbook "Methods of land cover research"
supported by Cultural and Educational Grant Agency of the Slovak Republic [grant number KEGA 080UK-4/2016].

Assessment of land use dynamics and land cover changes
supported by Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of Slovak Republic and Slovak Academy of Science [grant number VEGA 1/0247/19]

Teaching

  • Geographical regionalisation and systematics
  • Applied geography
  • Landscape protection
  • Methods of geoecological research
  • Regional geoecology of the Earth
  • Geoecological fieldworks

PhD students

Current PhD students

Mgr. Vladimír Šagát

Mgr. Matej Hruška


PhD students successfully completing

Mgr. Marián Gábor, PhD.

Mgr. Šárka Horáčková, PhD.

Mgr. Marek Súľovský, PhD.