Michal Kvasnica's Curriculum Vitae

Education and Scientific Degrees

2011: Habilitation for the docent degree at the Slovak University of Tehcnology in Bratislava, Slovakia
2003 - 2008: Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Supervised by prof. Manfred Morari
1995 - 2000: Engineering degree, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. Supervised by prof. Jan Mikles
1991 - 1995: High School Puchov, Slovakia

2019 (ongoing): Head of the Institute of Information Engineering, Automation, and Mathematics at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
2019 (ongoing): Head of the Department of Information Engineering and Process Control at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
2012 (ongoing): Associate professor (docent) of automation at the Institute of Information Engineering, Automation, and Mathematics, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
2012 - 2018: Deputy of the head of department of Information Engineering and Process Control at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
2012, 2019: Visiting researcher at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
2008 - 2011: Postdoc at the Institute of Information Engineering, Automation, and Mathematics, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
2006 - 2008: Research assistant at the Institute of Information Engineering, Automation, and Mathematics, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
2001 - 2006: Research assistant at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2013 (ongoing): Member of the European Control Conference (ECC) Editorial Board
2013-2019: Representative of Slovakia to EUCA
2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019: Chairman of the National Organizing Committee of the IEEE International Conferences on Process Control
IPC membership: European Control Conference (2013-present), IFAC Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Conference (2018), UKACC Conference on Control (2018)
Leader of an international team for development of software tools for model predictive control (in cooperation with ABB Switzerland, ETH Zurich and EPFL Lausanne)

2020: Prize of the Literary Fund of the Slovak Republic for the best technical book (certificate)
2018: Prize of the Literary Fund of the Slovak Republic for the second most frequently cited article (certificate)
2017: Prize of the Literary Fund of the Slovak Republic for the second highest number citations in 3 years (certificate)
2017: Prize of the Literary Fund of the Slovak Republic for the most frequently cited article (certificate)
2010: Best Presentation in Session Award, American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD (certificate)
2008: Best young researcher of the Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, (certificate)