Educational history
| 1999 – 2004 | Mgr. (=MSc.) degree (Catholic Theology) | Komenský University, Institute of Theology, Košice (1999 –2003); Catholic University, Faculty of Theology, Košice, Slovakia (2003 – 2004) | Thesis: Theophanic character of nature. New actuality of the dogma of the I. concil of Vatican about the possibility of cognition of God from created things. |
| 1999 – 2000 | RNDr. degree (Biology) | Komenský University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia | Thesis: Contemporary stage of the phytogenetic resources in the city of Bratislava demonstrated by the example of selected localities and taxa of higher plants. |
| 1998 – 1999 | noviciate | Order of Preachers (Dominicans) – Slovak Province, Dunajská Lužná, Zvolen | simple order vows: 21.08.1999; perpetual order vows: 29.06.2002 |
| 1992 – 1998 | Ph.D. Studies (Botany) | Komenský University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia | Thesis: Selected problems of taxonomic differentiation of the genera Sempervivum and Jovibarba in Europe. |
| 1987 – 1992 | Mgr. (=MSc.) degree (Biology) | Komenský University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia | Thesis (Animal physiology): Influence of testosterone and triiodthyronine on embryonal myoblasts of Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) in vitro. |
Fellowships
| 1996 | Fellowship of the Ministry for Science and Research, Vienna, Austria; Programme Austria-Slovakia | Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, Austria |
Teaching experience
| Department of Botany, Komenský University, Bratislava, Slovakia | 1993 - 1998 | Practical in Higher plant systematics |
| Department of Botany, P. J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia | 2001 - 2003 2001 - 2002 |
Lower plant systematics |
| Department of Biology, Faculty of Education, Catholic University, Ružomberok, Slovakia | 2002 - 2003 | Plant phylogeny and taxonomy |
Membership in societies
Member of the Slovak Botanical Society
Personal details
Order name: brother Dominik
Date of the perpetual vows in the Order of Preachers (Dominicans): 29. 06. 2002
Date of catholic priest ordination: 13. 06. 2004
Languages: native - Slovak, other - English, German, French, Russia
Others
Master of the novices of the Slovak province of Dominican order
Priest ministry in the Roman-catholic Parish Zvolen – Západ
Member of the Environmental subcommittee of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Slovakia