RNDr. Michal Rendoš, PhD.

RNDr. Michal Rendoš, PhD.

- assistant professor -

e.mail: michal.rendos@unipo.sk

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8948-3314

Scopus Author ID: 55426972300

ResearchGate:http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michal-Rendos

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Ecology and evolution of invertebrates in subsurface subterranean habitats
Systematics and morphology of crustaceans (Crustacea), with an emphasis on subterranean taxa
Biospeleology

TEACHING OF SUBJECTS

EDUCATION

CURRENTLY IMPLEMENTED SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS

2023–2025 IDUB UniLodz NR4/ML/2022: Biodiversity of springs from DNA barcoding perspective - reference library for future monitoring schemes (BioSprings) (co-investigator)
2001–2023 APVV SK-PL-21-0023: Springs as potential hotspots of Carpathian biodiversity (principal investigator)

COMPLETED SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS

2019–2023 FAN (B): First insight into diversity of invertebrates in the Slovak epikarst (principal investigator)

STUDY AND RESEARCH STAY ABROAD

University of Łódź, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Poland (September 2021–August 2023 and February 2020)
Nature Research Centre, Laboratory of Evolutionary Ecology of Hydrobionts, Vilnius, Lithuania (April 2019)
Federal University of Lavras, Center of studies on subterranean biology, Minas Gerais, Brazil (July–August 2015)
University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, SubBioLab, Slovenia (February–June 2013 and June–July 2019)
Adnan Menderes University, Faculty of Art and Science, Aydin, Turkey (September 2010–January 2011)
Palacký University, Faculty of Science, Olomouc, Czech Republic (April 2009)

SCHOLARSHIPS, TRAVEL GRANTS AND AWARDS

2020 Ulam post-doc fellowship, Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA)
2020 Scholarship, Central European Exchange Program for University Studies (CEEPUS)
2019 Scholarship, Research Council of Lithuania
2016 Travel grant for students and young scientists, International Society for Subterranean Biology
2015 Scholarship, National Scholarship Program of the Slovak Republic
2014 Best Student Lecture Award, 22nd International Conference on Subterranean Biology, Juriquilla, Querétaro, Mexico
2013 Scholarship, Central European Exchange Program for University Studies (CEEPUS)
2010 Travel grant for students and young scientists, International Society for Subterranean Biology
2009 Hlavička program scholarship, Slovak Gas Industry Foundation

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Rendoš M, Parimuchová A, Klímová Hřívová D, Karpowicz M, Papáč V, Jabłońska A, Płóciennik M, Haviarová D, Grabowski M. 2023. First insight into molecular diversity and DNA barcode library of epikarst-dwelling invertebrates in the Western Carpathians. Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology, published online.
Rendoš M, Delić T, Copilaș-Ciocianu D, Fišer C. 2021. First insight into cryptic diversity of a Caucasian subterranean amphipod of the genus Niphargus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Niphargidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 290: 1–11.
Rendoš M, Miklisová D, Kováč Ľ. Mock A. 2020. Dynamics of Collembola (Hexapoda) in a forested limestone scree slope, Western Carpathians, Slovakia. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82: 18–29.
Delić T, Trontelj P, Rendoš M, Fišer C. 2017. The importance of naming cryptic species and the conservation of endemic subterranean amphipods. Scientific Reports 7: 3391.
Rendoš M, Raschmanová N, Kováč Ľ, Miklisová D, Mock A, Ľuptáčik P. 2016. Organic carbon content and temperature as substantial factors affecting diversity and vertical distribution of Collembola on forested scree slopes. European Journal of Soil Biology 75: 180–187.

SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION

Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Lodz, Poland
Department of Zoology, P.J. Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia
Nature Research Centre, Laboratory of Evolutionary Ecology of Hydrobionts, Vilnius, Lithuania
Slovak caves administration, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia
SubBioLab, Department of Biology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Updated by: Lenka Demková, 18.10.2023