I was born in Brezno, the Slovak Republic (at that time part of the
former Czechoslovakia), in 1965.
I studied astronomy at the
Comenius University in Bratislava
(
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics).
Since that time I have been working at the
Astronomical Institute of the
Slovak Academy of Sciences
in
Tatranska Lomnica.
Apart from my home institute, I was lucky to gain more experience
during a few long term positions abroad:
1999-2000, ULO and
University College London
NLTE abundances and NLTE radiative accelerations
in the atmospheres of hot stars (host: Mike Dworetsky).
2003-2006,
Penn State University
synthetic spectra and Doppler tomography of
interacting binaries (host: Mercedes Richards).
2006-2007,
University of Arizona
extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs
(host: Adam Burrows, Ivan Hubeny).
2013-2014,
Australian National University
dust and protoplanetary disks
(host: Raquel Salmeron).
My research interests are chemically peculiar stars,
interacting binaries, and most recently mainly
exoplanets and dusty objects/disks.
Apart from astronomy, mountains and any outdoor activity used to be
my major hobby.
I have a lovely daughter Barborka, son Kubko and wife Anicka.