Academic Degrees:
MD, Medical Faculty Comenius University, Bratislava, 1966
PhD, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, 1974
DSc, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, 1990
Major Positions and Appointments:
1991-1992            chairman of the Board of Scientists of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
1996-1997            vicechairman of  Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic and Slovak Academy of Sciences (VEGA)
1996-1998            chairman of  Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic and Slovak Academy of Sciences (VEGA)
1993-1999            Member of Committee for Medical and Pharmaceutical sciences VEGA
1993-1999            vicechairman of the Evaluation Committee of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
1993-1996            chairman of the evaluation Committee for medical and pharmaceutical sciences
1990-2003            vicedirector of the Institute of Experimental Endocrinology of the Slovak Academy of  Sciences
1996-2002            chairman of the Scientific collegium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for Medical Sciences
2001-2003            Member of the Committee of the Agency for support of  science and technology
1994-2007            president of the Slovak Physiological Society of the Slovak Medical Society
2003-2007            director of  the Institute of Experimental Endocrinology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Centre of Excellence supported by European Commission)

Present appointments
2002-                         vice chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for Medical sciences
1997-                         chairman of the Committee for Doctor of Sciences habilitation in the field of Animal Physiology in the Slovak Republic
1998-                         member of the Committee for Doctor of Sciences habilitation in the field of Animal Physiology in the Czech Republic
2009                          Head, Institute of Normal and Pathological Physiology, Faculty of Medical Specialty Studies, Slovak Medical University, Bratislava

Editorial boards of scientific journals
Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology (USA, NIH) – editor for Europe
Physiological Research (Prague): Member of the International Editorial/Advisory Board
Iugoslavica Physiologica et Pharmacologica Acta: Member of the International Advisory Board
Endocrine Regulations (Bratislava) associate editor

Organizer and Chairman
Organizer and chairman of the five International symposia on Hormones in Milk, Smolenice Castle
President of the International Symposium on Cell volume and function 1997, Smolenice Castle

President International Organizing Committee : the First Joint Conference of Physiologists from Central Europe, Piešťany 5.-8. februára 2002
Chairman: Symposium :Cell Volume: Regulation and Function, First Joint Conference of Physiologists from Central Europe, Piešťany 5.-8. februára 2002

Chairman: Oral Session  Cell Physiology I, Congress of Physiology 2002 (Joint Scientific Meeting of  The Physiological Society, the Scandinavian Physiological Society and German Physiological Society, March 15-19, 2002, Tubingen, Germany

Member of the Advisory Committee pre 3rd FEPS Congress  Nice, 28 June – 3 July  2003

Chairman and organizer of the symposium Cell volume: regulation and functional impact, 3rd Congress of Federation of European Physiological Societies, Nice 28.VI.-2.7.2003, Nice,

Member of the International Program Committee of the International Conference
Risk factors and health: from molecule to the scientific basis of prevention, Belgrade/Zrenjanin, November 7-9,2003, organized by Serbian Physiological Society under auspices of Federation of European Physiological Societies, International Society of Pathophysiology, International Union of Physiological Sciences

Symposium Cell Volume, physiological and pathophysiological aspects, 5th International Congress of Pathophysiology, June 28-July 1, 2006,Beijing, China,
 : president of the Organizing Committee of the „Joint Meeting of The  Slovak Physiological Society and The Physiological Society and The Federation of European Physiological Societies“, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 11. –14.  2007.
Chairman and organizer of the session CELL VOLUME REGULATION AND CELL FUNCTION at the conference 40th NIPS International Symposium 2009 "The Physiology of Anion Transport" and "Cell Volume Regulation"  Okazaki, Japan, August 3.-6.2009

Member of the International Program Committee 2nd Congress of Physiological Sciences of Serbia with International participation: Current Trends in Physiological Sciences, Kragujevac, Srbia, September 17-20, 2009 and chair of the session NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Present Major Research Interests:
Neuroendocrine regulation of peptide secretion, cell swelling-induced exocytosis, insulin