Department of Ecology

Staff

Head of the department

doc. RNDr. Lenka Demková, PhD. - lenka.demkova@unipo.sk
 

Deputy head of the department
doc.  Ing. Jozef Oboňa, PhD. - jozef.obona@unipo.sk
 
Administrative staff
Natália Mihoková - natalia.mihokova@unipo.sk
 
Professors

prof. PaedDr. Ján Koščo, PhD. - jan.kosco@unipo.sk

• Ichtyology – fish ecology
• The importance of polyploidy in evolution
• Biological invasions
• Fish protection

prof. RNDr. Ivan Šalamon, CSc. - ivan.salamon@unipo.sk

• General ecology and ecology of individuals and populations
• Ecophysiology of medicinal plants
• Botany
• Biodiversity and gene pool protection
• Environmental technologies
• Environmental chemistry
• GC, LC, AAS

 
Associated Professors

doc. Ing. Lenka Bobuľská, PhD. - lenka.bobulska@unipo.sk

• Soil ecology
• Environmental microbiology

doc. RNDr. Lenka Demková, PhD. - lenka.demkova@unipo.sk

• Environmental burdens
• Hazardous substances in the natural environment (heavy metals)
• The influence of risk elements on biological and chemical soil parameters
• GIS - change of landscape structure
• Biomonitoring

doc. Ing. Jozef Fejér, PhD. - jozef.fejer@unipo.sk

• Biodiversity and protection of plant gene pool with a focus on medicinal, aromatic and spice plants
• Plant genetics and breeding
• Isolation of natural substances from medicinal plants and their use

 doc. Mgr. Martin Hromada, PhD. - martin.hromada@unipo.sk

• Bird ecology
• Parasitology
• Behavioral ecology

 doc. Mgr. Peter Manko, PhD. - peter.manko@unipo.sk

• Ecology and faunistics of aquatic insects
• Feeding ecology of fish

 doc. Ruslan Mariychuk, CSc. - ruslan.mariychuk@unipo.sk

• Green chemistry
• Environmental technologies

doc.  Ing. Jozef Oboňa, PhD. - jozef.obona@unipo.sk

• Mapping the biodiversity of selected groups of invertebrates
• Field research

 
Lecturers

RNDr. Beáta Baranová, PhD. - beata.baranova@unipo.sk  

• Epigeic macrofauna of environmentally differently burdened areas with emphasis on Ground beetles (Coleoptera:Carabidae)
• Abandoned and unused areas with stands of invasive neophytes with emphasis on Canadian goldenrod (Solidago canadensis L.)
• Molecular analyzes of selected groups of invertebrates and fish

 RNDr. Adriana Eliašová, PhD. - adriana.eliasova@unipo.sk

• Biological and ecological aspects of the accumulation of secondary metabolites of plants
• Physiology of a plant individual under conditions of abiotic stress
• Analysis of natural substances by chromatographic methods

 RNDr. Daniela Gruľová, PhD. - daniela.grulova@unipo.sk

• Plant secondary metabolites
• Biological activity of secondary metabolites
• Isolation and determination of constituents from plant matrices (GC / MS)

 RNDr. Michal Rendoš, PhD. - michal.rendos@unipo.sk

• Ecology of invertebrates in shallow subterranean habitats
• Biospeleology
• Taxonomy and ecology of freshwater amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda)

 
Researchers

PaedDr. Jakub Fedorčák, PhD. - jakub.fedorcak@unipo.sk

• Microhabitat preferences of benthic fish species
• Identification of ploidy status of fish using flow and image cytometry
• Analysis of partial biological parameters of fish of the genus Cobitis a Sabanejewia

Mgr. Mária Sabalová, PhD. - maria.sabalova@unipo.sk

RNDr. Radoslav Smoľák, PhD.  - radoslav.smolak@unipo.sk

• Ecology and taxonomy of zooplankton (focus on groups Rotifera a Cladocera)
• Parasitology

 
PhD students

Mgr. Katarína Fogašová - katarina.fogasova@smail.unipo.sk
Mgr. Slavomíra Jusková - slavomira.juskova@smail.unipo.sk
Mgr. Laura Mlynárová - laura.mlynarova@smail.unipo.sk
Mgr. Branislav Tej - branislav.tej@smail.unipo.sk
Ing. Július Varga - julius.varga@smail.unipo.sk

 

external PhD students 

Mgr. Agáta Cerňáková - agata.cernakova@smail.unipo.sk
Mgr. Dominika Hadbavná  - dominika.hadbavna@smail.unipo.sk
Mgr. Martin Janiga - martin.janiga@smail.unipo.sk
RNDr. Peter Krišovský - peter.krisovsky@smail.unipo.sk
Mgr. Alexandra Madrová - alexandra.madrova@smail.unipo.sk
Mgr. Iva Marcišová - iva.marcisova@smail.unipo.sk
Ing. Ľuboš Nastišin  - lubos.nastisin@smail.unipo.sk
Mgr. Tomáš Suško - tomas.susko@smail.unipo.sk

 
Other staff

Augustín Lapoš, gardener