I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname

Kováč

I.2 - Name

Urban

I.3 - Degrees

doc. Ing. Mgr., PhD.

I.4 - Year of birth

1976

I.5 - Name of the workplace

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

I.6 - Address of the workplace

Comenius University in Bratislava Faculty of Management Odbojárov 10 P.O.BOX 95 820 05 BRATISLAVA 25 Slovak Republic

I.7 - Position

Associated professor

I.8 - E-mail address

urban.kovac@fm.uniba.sk

I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff

https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/159?do=filterForm-submit&university=701000000&faculty=701120000&sort=surname&employment_state=yes&filter=Vyh%C4%BEada%C5%A5

I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university

Management

I.11 - ORCID iD

0000-0003-3960-4488

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education

II.2 - Second degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics,Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia

II.b - Year

2006

II.c - Study field and programme

Numerical mathemtics and mathematical analysis

II.3 - Third degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Univeristy of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

II.b - Year

2011

II.c - Study field and programme

Nanotechnology

II.4 - Associate professor

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University in Bratislava Faculty of Management

II.b - Year

2014

II.c - Study field and programme

Management

II.5 - Professor

II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position	III.b - Institution	III.c - Duration
Associated professor	Comenius University in Bratislava Faculty of Management	1.11.2012 - present
software developer	Gold Standard Simulations, Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland	01.09.2010 - 1.3.2012
researcher	University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom	01.10.2006 - 31.08.2010
researcher	Faculty of Economics and Finance University of Economics in Bratislava	01.09.2002 - 30.9.2006

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

V.1.a - Name of the profile course	V.1.b - Study programme	V.1.c - Degree	V.1.d - Field of study
Repetetórium z matematiky (in slovak)		I.	Economics and Management
		I.
Financial Mathematics in english		I.	Economics and Management
Statistical methods in english		I.	Economics and Management
Applied statistics (in slovak)	DAM	I.	Economics and Management
Modelling of economic proceses. (in slovak)		II.	Economics and Management
BI tools for data processing (in slovak)	DAM	II.	Economics and Management
In-depth data analysis (in slovak)	DAM	II.	Economics and Management
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in management, marketing and finance (in slovak)	DAM	II.	Economics and Management
Quantitative methods of scientific research	Management	III.	Economics and Management

V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year

V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year

V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses

V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses

V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)

V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)

V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)

V.4.2 - Number of defended theses

V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)

V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)

V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)

V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations

VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

130

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level

VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs

Peter Baus, Urban Kováč, Eva Pauditšová, Ivana Kohutková, Jozef Komorník, Identification of interconnections between landscape pattern and urban dynamics— Case study Bratislava, Slovakia, Ecological Indicators, Available online 1 January 2014, ISSN 1470-160X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.12.011. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X13005013)

Hierarchical simulation of statistical variability : from 3-D MC with "ab initio” ionized impurity scattering to statistical compact models / Urban Kováč, Craig Alexander, Gareth Roy, Craig Riddet, Binjie Cheng, Asen Asenov. - Spôsob prístupu: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5551189. - Popis urobený: 7.4.2011. - Názov z titulnej obrazovky. In IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. - [s.l.] : IEEE Electron Devices Society, 2010. - ISSN 0018-9383. - Vol. 57, no. 10 (2010), s. 2418-2426.

Almadhor, A., Alasiry, A., Alsubai, S., Al Hejaili, A., Kovac, U., & Abbas, S. (2025)., Explainable and secure framework for autism prediction using multimodal eye tracking and kinematic data. Complex & Intelligent Systems, 11(3), 173., https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-025-01790-3

Brnkalakova, S., Melnykovych, M., Nijnik, M., Barlagne, C., Pavelka, M., Udovc, A., Marek, M., Kovac, U., & Kluvánková, T. (2022).,Collective forestry regimes to enhance transition to climate-smart forestry. Environmental Policy and Governance, 32(6), 492–503.,https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2021

Statistical simulation of random dopant induced threshold voltage fluctuations for 35 nm channel length MOSFET / Urban Kováč, Dave Reid, Campbell Millar, Gareth Roy, Scott Roy, Asen Asenov. - Spôsob prístupu: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science? _ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6V47-4T6KFKB-7- K&_cdi=5751&_user=640931&_pii=S0026271408001807&_origin=browse&_zone=rslt_list_item &_coverDate=09%2F30%2F2008&_sk=999519991&wchp=dGLzVtbzSkzk&md5=05efde338a4ce3711014f158a6445a8e&ie=/sdarticle.pdf. - Popis urobený: 6.4.2011. - Názov z titulnej obrazovky. In Microelectronics reliability [elektronický zdroj]. - [United Kingdom] : Elsevier Ltd., 2008. - ISSN 0026-2714. - Vol. 48, No. 8-9 (august - september 2008), s. 1572-1575.

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years

Lukáš Kurinec, Application of Penrose’s law in Slovakia, Lukáš Kurinec,Urban Kováč,Ivo Doležal, Lukrécia Kováč Gerulová,V2 Vedecký výstup publikačnej činnosti ako časť editovanej knihy alebo zborníkaQUAERE 2023 [elektronický dokument] : recenzovaný sborník příspěvků interdisciplinární mezinárodní vědecké konference doktorandů a odborných asistentů : Roč. 13. - : 1. vyd. ISBN 978-80-87952-38-2. - Hradec Králové :Magnanimitas akademické sdružení, 2023. - S. 206-213 [online], https://doi.org/10.33543/q.2023.13

Lukáš Kurinec,Urban Kováč,Imrich Berta,Martin Petrovič,General practitioners as gatekeepers to save healthcare expenditure evidence from Slovakia,V2 Vedecký výstup publikačnej činnosti ako časť editovanej knihy alebo zborníkaDOKBAT 2022 [elektronický dokument] : 18th annual international Bata conference for ph.d. students and young researchers. - : 1. vyd. ISBN 978-80-7678-101-6. - Zlín : Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně, 2022. - S. 262-274 [online]

Bohumel, T., Gonšenica, A., Kováč, U. (2025)., Decision-aligned early warnings of equity drawdowns: Benchmarking LSTM and GRU. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Scientific Conference “Challenges of Modern Economy and Society through the Prism of Green Economy and Sustainable Development” (CESGED 2025) (pp. 255–266).

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

Peter Baus, Urban Kováč, Eva Pauditšová, Ivana Kohutková, Jozef Komorník, Identification of interconnections between landscape pattern and urban dynamics—Case study Bratislava, Slovakia, Ecological Indicators, Available online 1 January 2014, ISSN 1470-160X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.12.011. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X13005013)

Feng, Yongjiu, Yang Liu, and Xiaohua Tong. "Spatiotemporal variation of landscape patterns and their spatial determinants in Shanghai, China." Ecological Indicators 87 (2018): 22-32.

Peter Baus, Urban Kováč, Eva Pauditšová, Ivana Kohutková, Jozef Komorník, Identification of interconnections between landscape pattern and urban dynamics—Case study Bratislava, Slovakia, Ecological Indicators, Available online 1 January 2014, ISSN 1470-160X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.12.011. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X13005013) XING, Hanfa; MENG,

Yuan. Measuring urban landscapes for urban function classification using spatial metrics. Ecological Indicators, 2020, 108: 105722.

Atik, Meryem, et al. "Exploring a combination of objective and subjective assessment in landscape classification: Side case from Turkey." Applied Geography 83 (2017): 130-140.

Peter Baus, Urban Kováč, Eva Pauditšová, Ivana Kohutková, Jozef Komorník, Identification of interconnections between landscape pattern and urban dynamics—Case study Bratislava, Slovakia, Ecological Indicators, Available online 1 January 2014, ISSN 1470-160X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.12.011. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X13005013)

You, Heyuan. "Agricultural landscape dynamics in response to economic transition: Comparisons between different spatial planning zones in Ningbo region, China." Land Use Policy 61 (2017): 316-328.

Peter Baus, Urban Kováč, Eva Pauditšová, Ivana Kohutková, Jozef Komorník, Identification of interconnections between landscape pattern and urban dynamics—Case study Bratislava, Slovakia, Ecological Indicators, Available online 1 January 2014, ISSN 1470-160X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.12.011. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X13005013)

Huang, Xin, et al. "Multi-level monitoring of subtle urban changes for the megacities of China using high-resolution multi-view satellite imagery." Remote sensing of environment 196 (2017): 56-75.

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years

researcher

Projekt STICS

Názov: STICS - Smart transformačné a inovačné konzorcium Slovensko (STICS)

Call: Plán obnovy a odolnosti SR, Číslo výzvy: 09I02-03-V01 Transformačné a inovačné konzorcia (TIK)

No.: 09I02-03-V01-00011

Trvanie: 1.4.2025 – 30.9.2027

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

IX. - Other relevant facts

Date of last update

2026-04-09

Name and surname:	doc. Ing. Mgr. Urban Kováč, PhD.
Document type:	Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:	Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:	Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava