doc. RNDr. Lenka Demková, PhD. 

- associated professor - 
 

e-mail: lenka.demkova@unipo.sk

 

RESEARCH AREA

• Environmental loads
• Risk elements in the environment
• The influence of risk elements on biological and chemical soil parameters
• GIS – change of landscape structure
• Biomonitoring
   

RECENT PROJECTS

• VEGA č. 1/0213/22  Old mining bodies as a source of environmental pollution
• VEGA č. 1/0602/22 Possibilities of eliminating xenobiotics in edible forest fruits from environmentally stressed areas.
• APVV-20-0140 Possibilities of obtaining critical raw materials using progressive methods of mine waste processing were accepted. 

 

SUCCESSFULLY REALIZED PROJECTS

• KEGA no. 005PU-4/2019 Scientific teaching in the ecology education: The collaborative „Fieldwork – Lab – Application to Practice“ approach
• VEGAno.1/0326/18The assessment of environmental load of the environment in former mining area using traditional and alternative bioindication methods. 
• VEGA no. 1/0147/17 Evaluating the health risks arising from the consumption of edible forest fruits collected in various environmentally polluted areas of Slovakia
• University science park TECHNICOM for innovation applications supported by knowledge technologies – Phase II, ITMS 313011D232"
• GaPU 27/2018 Evaluation of the quality of environmental components in the vicinity of the Nižná Slaná tailings pond
• GaPU 23/2017 Biomonitoring of heavy metals from traffic in Prešov city (Slovakia)
• GaPU 19/2019 Evaluation of the quality of environmental components in the vicinity of the Nižná Slaná tailings pond
• INTERREG V-A PL-SK „Modern education without borders opens the countryside to business. ”(Assistant project coordinator).

 

PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES

• Demková, L., Árvay, J. Soil and ambient air pollution by mercury in former mining area Gelnica (Slovakia). In SUITMA12. (04.-07.9.2023) Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• Demková, L., Bobuľská, L. Air quality inside university building environment. In 19th International multidisciplinary scientific geoconference SGEM 2019. (30.6-6.7.2019) Albena, Bulgaria
• Demková, L., Bobuľská, L., The influence of old mining wastes to the biological and chemical soil properties. In  Wageningen soil conference, Understanding soil functions. (27 – 30.8.2019). Wageningen, Netherlands
• Demková, L., The influence of risk elements to the soil quality at the former mining areas in Slovakia. In International Scientific Symposium: Horticulture, Food, and Environment (25. -26.10 2018). Craiova, Romania. 
• Demková, L., Bobuľská, L. Implementation of ICT tools in soil science education. In Soil Classification and Education (30.6 - 4.7. 2018). Toruń, Poland. 
• Demková, L. - Bobuľská, L. Two centuries of land use changes influenced by intensive mining and smelting activities (Middle Spiš, Slovakia). In AgroSym 2017, Jahorina mountain, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Angelovičová, L. - Bobuľská, L. Changes of the landscape structure under the influence of long-term mining activities during two centuries. In Environmine 2015, 4th International Seminar on Environmental Issues in Mining. Lima, Peru
• Angelovičová, L. - Fazekašová, D. The effect of heavy metals contamination to the biological and chemical soil properties in the mining region of Middle Spis (Slovakia). In 3rd International Conference of Ecosystems (ICE 2013), Tirana, Albania
• Angelovičová, L., - Fazekašová, D. Effect of heavy metals on enzyme activity of agricultural soils. In NewEnviro, 2012, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia

 

PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIPS AND GRANTS

• June 2023 University of Novi Sad (Serbia) (CEEPUS)
• June 2022 University of Monastir (Tunisia) (Erasmus KA171)
• November 2022 Mendel University in Brno (Czech Republic) (European structural funds)
• November 2021 Mendel University in Brno (Czech Republic) (Erasmus+ staff mobility)
• October 2019 University of Belgrade (Serbia) 
• April 2019 Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities (Poland)(Erasmus+ teaching mobility)
• April 2018 University of Craiova (Romania) (Erasmus+ teaching mobility)
• January 2015 – February 2015 University of Helsinki (Finland), Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences 
• April 2013 – Jule 2013  University of Helsinki (Finland), Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Department of Environmental Science 

 

TEACHING SUBJECTS

• Geoecology 1
• Geoecology 2
• Physical geography
• Statistics for ecologists
• Chemistry of the environment
• GIS
   

HOBBIES

• tourism
• music
• books

 

PUBLICATIONS

research  gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lenka_Demkova2