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

Present appointments
2002-                           vicechairman of the Scientific collegium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for Medical sciences
1994-                            president of the Slovak Physiological Society of the Slovak Medical Society
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
2003-                            director of  the Institute of Experimental Endocrinology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Centre of Excellence supported by European Commission)

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
General Physiology and Biophysics (Bratislava) editor      
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, Pieany 5.-8. februára 2002
Chairman: Symposium :Cell Volume: Regulation and Function, First Joint Conference of Physiologists from Central Europe, Pieany 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

Chairman and organizer: Symposium Cell Volume, physiological and pathophysiological aspects, 5th International Congress of Pathophysiology, June 28-July 1, 2006,Beijing, China,

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