UNIZA Training School

Session:

• DAY 1: Opening and Session Chair (morning session)
• DAY 2: Session Chair (afternoon session)
• DAY 3: Closing

In 2016, she was nominated a National delegate for H2020 PC on Smart, Green and Integrated Transport. She has been active in standardisation for many years, currently she represents Slovakia in CEN TC 278 on ITS.

From June 2013 till October 2015, she hold the position of the Head of Science Operations at the COST Association in Brussels.

In 2013, she was appointed Full Professor in the Applied Informatics. From 2009 to 2013 she was the Head of the Department of InfoCom Networks at the University of Zilina, Slovakia. Her research interests include Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), in particular network architectures, services and applications. She has been involved in a number national and international research projects including COPERNICUS, INCO-COPERNICUS, EURESCOM and EC FP projects.

From 2002 to 2013, she was involved in the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) as a leader or member of Specialist Task Forces for CLOUD, TISPAN (Telecommunications and Internet converged Services and Protocols for Advanced Networking) and ITS Technical Committees. In 2003, she got the SIEMENS AWARD for leading the research group in the field of IP telephony.

In 1996, she received her PhD in telecommunication systems from the University of Transport and Telecommunications in Zilina, former Czechoslovakia. She received her diploma in telecommunication engineering from the same university.

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• DAY 1: Opening

He had the opportunity to develop international activities in research and education abroad, e.g. at the York University Canada, Northern Telecom and Bell Canada in 1993, at the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm in 1990 and at the Vienna University of Technology in 1981-1982. He has visited many other foreign institutions during the last 25 years.

Prof. Dado has been actively involved in European research and education programmes (TEMPUS, COST, LEONARDO, Socrates, 5th, 6th and 7th Framework Programme, Horizon 2020, European University Association projects…) and has managed national projects related to information and communication technologies, intelligent transportation systems, regional innovation strategies and e-learning.

He has been a member of several international committees and is currently COST programme national coordinator, member of COST Committee of Senior Officials as well as Executive Board member of COST.

As project coordinator of ERAdiate, Prof. Dado is responsible for the project implementation as foreseen in the Grant Agreement with the European Commission (EC). He chairs project meetings and is responsible for progress and final reports to the EC.

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• DAY 1: Keynote speaker

Prior to joining CEITEC, Dr. Dettenhofer was Project Leader in pre-clinical development for viral vaccine and antibody discovery at Crucell (Johnson & Johnson). His previous work at Harvard Medical School was in the field of genetics and developmental biology, including studies on genes which control bone development and memory function. He led a study analyzing the development of the biomedical economy in Panama. His most recent work is on governance practices in higher education institutions and their contribution to performance.

Dr. Dettenhofer was a visiting scholar at the Institut de Biologie Molécularie et Cellularie in Strasbourg, France, and is frequently a Visiting Scientist with the Joint Research Centre of European Commission. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. from UC Berkeley.

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• DAY 1: Keynote speaker

He also has experience with the preparation and implementation of international projects, organization of several international conferences in Slovakia and Belgium. Since 2011 till 2013 he worked as an analyst and executive director for the Slovak Organization for Research and Development Activities (SOVVA). He coordinated support of the FP7 in Slovakia and was a member of several programme committees and national contact point for SSH and Research infrastructures.

He worked at the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic and at the Government Office of the Slovak Republic in the field of research, innovation and knowledge society. He has experience from working with EU affairs, R&D policy analyses and science communication. He is member of Horizon 2020 Strategic Configuration Program Committee. Daniel was also in charge of organizing Researcher´s Night in Slovakia in 2012 and 2013 and Kick-off Conference of Horizon 2020 in Slovakia. Daniel holds M.A. from the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.

• DAY 1: Keynote speaker on “Academic Publishing in Transport Science” and training on “Peer review process”

Her areas of expertise include: discrete choice analysis, decision making process, bounded rationality, user benefits, data collection (revealed and stated preference data, panel data, virtual reality experiments), mode choice,  electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles.

She is member of several transport research committees including Area Editor of Transportation (Springer) and member of the Editorial Board of Transportation Research Part B (Elsevier), Transport Policy (Elsevier) and Transportation Letter (Francis & Taylor). Elisabetta has an extensive experience as a leader of research projects and as a reviewer for international conferences and journals.

From 2011 to 2015 she has held a course on “Publishing Research in Transportation Science” to PhD students of the Department of Transport a the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

Session:

• DAY 1: Session Chair (afternoon session)
• DAY 2: Session Chair (afternoon session)
• DAY 2: Session Chair (morning session)

As a researcher, Giuseppe contributed to the R&D activities of ICT multinationals such as TeliaSonera (2004-2008) and Nokia (2010). His scientific interests span a wide range of topics in conceptual and application-specific areas of social computing such as digital community design, mobile social networks, social robotics, educational technologies, green ICT and smart mobility solutions.

Some of his publications received broad international attention: “Mobile social networking in theory and practice” is one of the reference publications in its area and the ~5.000 downloads of his PhD thesis on “Digital Community Design” make this dissertation one of the most popular ones from the series “Jyväskylä studies in computing”. In 2009 he received an Award nomination as best Early Stage Researcher in the COST Action 298 “Participation in Broadband Society”.

Giuseppe holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Jyväskylä, in Finland, and a MSc in Computer Science from the University of Bologna, in Italy.

Session:

• DAY 1: Training on Structuring an academic paper

To support scientific development of PhD students at the University of Žilina, in 2015 Lenka began instruction of academic writing courses. She is an active member of the Technical Board of the Crisis Management Journal at the Faculty of Security Engineering.

Currently, she is expanding her education by taking doctoral classes at the Department of Journalism, Catholic University in Ružomberok. Her interdisciplinary research explores the image of Slovakia in the British press.

Her other professional fields of interest include Information Communication Technology support of academic writing and blogging as a tool for building relationships with students.

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• DAY 3: Session Chair (morning session)

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• DAY 2: Keynote speaker

1) COST Action PEERE, a European-wide scientific collaboration network which aims to assess and improve the current state of scientific peer review;

2) ProHealth , a project which aims to define and improve teaching of professionalism in biomedicine.

His other interests include publication ethics, psychology of hope and medical education.

Session:

• DAY 2: Training on successful writing habits
• DAY 3: Workshops on “Dos and Don’ts of academic writing” and “delivering an attractive presentation”

She was awarded a Fulbright grant (2012-2013) to do her research in Academic Writing and Public speaking fields at Monterey Institute of International Studies, CA, USA. In 2013, she published a book on Academic writing for EFL learners.

In 2014-2015, Dr Hundarenko was conducting a research on Positive Discourse Analysis: Language for Peace at Vienna University, Austria, as a part of OeAD scholarship. It was followed by the grant from Slovak Academic Information Agency (SAIA) to proceed with the project on Building European Scholarly Cooperation through Effective Writing Discourse (August 2015-July 2016). Since June 2017, Dr Hundarenko has been working as an assistant professor at the faculty of Humanities, at the University of Zilina, Slovakia.

Dr. Hundarenko’s research areas include but not limited to the fields of English text and discourse analysis, stylistics and academic writing areas. She also offers courses of Russian for A1-C2 levels for both school and university teachers as well as general public.

Session:

• DAY 2: Training on “Publishing in high-impact journals”

He worked as researcher for several academic institutions: University of Barcelona (2014-2015) ETH Zurich (2007-2009) and TU Dresden (2005-2007), where he participated in FP6 project IRRIIS and FP7 project LASAGNE. He attained his PhD degree in 2003 from the University of Zilina in the doctoral study program “Transportation and Communication Technology”.

His research is focused on the development of optimization algorithms and simulation models that are applicable in transportation networks, and more generally, in complex systems.

He coauthored more than 40 publications, among them 15 in peer-reviewed international scientific journals. In 2013, he received award from Literarny fond for the response to his publications.

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• DAY 3: Workshop on “Structuring an academic paper”

Her academic interests include academic writing, history, gothic literature and 19th century British and American literature.

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• DAY 3: Panel Discussion

Pavol Rafajus received the MSc. degree in electrical engineering and the PhD from University of Žilina, Slovakia, in 1995 and 2002, respectively. At present he is professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Žilina.

His research is focused on the electrical machines, mainly switched reluctance motors and other electrical machine properties. He is devoted in the design of individual types of electrical machines, especially the type of reluctance, which was also the principal investigator of the several projects in this field. He is the author or coauthor of more than 150 scientific publications published in national or international conferences and symposia and national and international journals. A detailed list of all publications of the responsible person referred to in (http://www.kves.uniza.sk). He is the author of a scientific monograph: Switched reluctance motor, which is also closely related to his professional topic. He is co-author of 4 university textbooks, dealing with issues of modern electrical machines, measurement and modeling of electrical machines and the theory and examples of electrical machines.

He is a supervisor of undergraduate and Master’s theses, as well as PhD supervisor of two students who successfully completed their doctoral dissertation. He cooperates closely with businesses and companies in projects or through active consultation and training employees. He regularly visits several foreign European universities (including University of Helsinki in Finland, University of Catania and Roma La Sapienza in Italy, and TU Cluj in Romania). He regularly participates in the Erasmus+ project, lecturing at various European universities in the field of electrical machines.

Her academic interests include academic writing, history, gothic literature and 19th century British and American literature.

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• DAY 3: Panel Discussion

Ladislav Janoušek is a head of the Department of Electromagnetic and Biomedical Engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. He finished his master and PhD. degrees at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Žilina, in the field of Power Electrical Systems. His professional career started at the Electrotechnical Research and Projecting Company in Nová Dubnica, Slovakia. Later he took a chance to join a research company IIU Int. in Tokyo, Japan, where he worked as researcher in the field of non-destructive evaluation of materials for three years. After returning back to Slovakia in 2005 he joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

His current research and innovation activities focus on electromagnetic non-destructive evaluation of conductive materials and impact of electromagnetic filed on living organisms. He is author/co-author of three patents and more than 150 research articles published in scientific journals and conference proceedings. He has been principal investigator of seven research projects and actively contributed to implementation of another ten projects funded from national and international resources. He got several prestigious awards for his achievements and innovative solutions.