BRANISLAV PEŤKOEditorial Council
Assoc. Prof., D.V.M., D.Sc.
Professor of the Institute of Parasitology of Slovak Academy of Sciences (Košice, Slovak Republic)
Institute of Parasitology of Slovak Academy of Sciences SAS, Bratislava (Ecology, Parasitology, Chronobiology)
Date of birth: April 12, 1953
Assoc. Prof., D.V.M., D.Sc.
Work address: Institute of Parasitology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences Hlinkova 3, 040 01 Košice, Slovak Republic
Tel.: +421 55 6334455, Fax: +421 55 6334455, petko@saske.sk
+421 903 623 343 (cellular)
Background:
1968-1971 Grammar school
1971-1977 University of Veterinary Medicine, degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (M.V.D.)
1982-1987 Postgraduate study, Parasitological Institute SAS, degree Ph.D. in Parasitology
1992 1 month study stay : the Chair of Comparative Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, University of Munich, Germany
1994 1 month study stay, Pettenkofer-Institute for Hygiene and Clinical Microbiology of Ludwig Maximilians-University, Germany
2006 degree Assoc. Professor of the University of Veterinary Medicine in Košice
2011 degree Doctor of Biological Science, D.Sc.
Work experience:
1978 - 1989 Military Veterinary Institute, Košice
Head of Environmental Department (1981-1985) and Department of Airport Biological Protection (1985-1989)
1982 - 1988 Member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences Board for Basic Research on Environmental projects; Investigator of projects for military protection against zoonoses and projects for ecologico-ornitological monitoring of military airports.
1989 - to present Institute of Parasitology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Košice, Head of the Department of Natural-foci Diseases.
1992 - to present Member of Parasitological Institute Scientific Board
1993 - to present Member of Board for Defence of Theses in Parasitology
Research fields:
Parasitology, epidemiology, epizootiology, zoology, ecology, environment
Natural-foci diseases, Lyme borreliosis, ticks and tick-borne diseases
Professional Memberships:
1998-2007 Member of the Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences;
1998-2007 Head of Committee of SAS Presidium for Environment;
Coordinator of SAS environmental projects;
Guarantor of contractual cooperation of SAS Presidium and the
SR Ministry of Environment;
1999 - to present Member of Scientific Board of SAS Presidium for Biological and Ecological Sciences
2000-2001 Member of the Advisory Panel on Security-Related Civil Science
and Technology of the NATO Scientific Programme
2000-2001 Member of the External Advisory Group for Key Action 5 of the
European Commission
Foreign languages:
English and Russian languages - reading, written and basic spoken
Awards: Price of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for Popularisation of Science (2008, 2012)
Price of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for Developmnent of Biological Sciences (2013)