Dusan Berek
Polymer Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Biography
Dusan Berek is employed at Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. He served as elected member of the Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, President of the Slovak Chemical Society, Chairman of the Czecho-Slovak and Slovak National Committee of Chemistry for IUPAC. He is the corresponding member of the Central European Academy of Sciences and member of the Learned Society of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He is the author or co-author of two monographs and 250+ scientific papers in extenso published in refereed periodicals, proceedings and chapters of books, as well as 60+ patents (four of them were licensed) - cited more than 2,000x. He has presented over 110 invited plenary, key and main lectures, as well as over 900 regular lectures and poster contributions on symposia and conferences and during lecturing tours to over forty countries. He was elected as Slovak scientist of the year 1999 and “Slovak innovator of the year 2001”.