Curriculum vitae

Given name: Peter
Surname: Vďačný
Personal webpage: https://fns.uniba.sk/en/vdacny/

2015

• Associated Professor (Assoc.-Prof.). Department of Zoology. Faculty of Natural Sciences. Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.

2011

• Doctor rerum naturalium (Dr.rer.nat.). Department of Organismal Biology. Faculty of Natural Sciences. University of Salzburg. Austria.
• Doctoral Thesis: Monograph of the dileptids.
• Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Foissner.

2010

• Philosophiae doctor (PhD). Department of Zoology. Faculty of Natural Sciences. Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.
• PhD Thesis: Taxonomy and morphology of soil haptorid ciliates (Protista, Ciliophora).
• Supervisor: Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Milada Holecová.

2006

• Master in Sciences (MSc). Department of Zoology. Faculty of Natural Sciences. Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.
• Diploma Thesis: Soil gymnostomate ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from Slovakia. Obtaining “cum laude” qualification.
• Supervisor: Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Eva Tirjaková.

2004

• Bachelor in Sciences (BSc). Department of Zoology. Faculty of Natural Sciences. Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia. Obtaining “cum laude” qualification.

2015-present

Associated Professor, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.

2010-2015

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.

2008-2010

Research Fellow, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Salzburg, Austria.

2006-2008

Research Associate, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.

2013

Stay in Protozoological laboratory of Prof. Mann Kyoon Shin, Department of Biological Science, College of Natural Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea.

2010

Stay in Microbiological laboratory of Prof. Slava Epstein, Biology Department, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

2007-2010

Stay in Protozoological laboratory of Prof. Wilhelm Foissner, Department of Organismal Biology. Faculty of Natural Sciences. University of Salzburg. Austria.

• Member of the International Society of Protistology.
• Peer reviewer for Acta Protozoologica, Biological Journal of Linean Society, Environmental Micro-biology, European Journal of Protistology, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Micriobiology, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Research in Microbiology, Zoologica Scripta.

2013         

Medal of Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava for excellent scientific results.

2011

Award of Excellence, Vienna, Austria.

2011

Wilhelm and Ilse Foissner-Award, Berlin, Germany.