Dusan Berek
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Biography
Dusan Berek graduated with an honour Master of Chemical Engineering from the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. He completed his PhD Thesis at Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czecho Slovak Academy of Sciences in Prague. He did his DSc Thesis at Slovak Academy of Sciences and Slovak Technical University Bratislava. He is working at Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences (PI SAS) in Bratislava since 1960. From 1992-1995 he was an elected member of the Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He served as President of the Slovak Chemical Society, Chairman of the Czecho-Slovak and Slovak National Committee of Chemistry for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and as Member of the Board of the Federation of European Chemical Societies. He is the author of five original methods for separation of complex polymer systems; preparation and application of microporous carbon fibers. Author or co-author of two monographs on liquid chromatography and 250+ scientific papers in extenso published in refereed periodicals, and in proceedings and chapters of books, as well as 60+ patents - cited more than 2,000 times in SCI journals and monographs. He has presented over one hundred and ten invited plenary, keyand main lectures, as well as over 900 lectures short communications and poster contributions during congresses, symposia and conferences and during lecturing tours to over fourty countries. He was elected Slovak Scientist of the year 1999 and Slovak Innovator of the year 2001.