Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
Mgr. Katarína Boďová, 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

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Boďová
I.2 - Name
Katarína
I.3 - Degrees
Mgr., PhD.
I.4 - Year of birth
1981
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Department of Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Mathematics / Mlynská dolina, 842 48 Bratislava
I.7 - Position
Assistant Professor
I.8 - E-mail address
katarina.bodova@fmph.uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/5629
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Applied Mathematics
I.11 - ORCID iD
0000-0002-7214-0171

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
Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
II.b - Year
2004
II.c - Study field and programme
Mathematics of Economy and Finance
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Department of Mathematics
II.b - Year
2009
II.c - Study field and programme
Applied and interdisciplinary mathematics
II.4 - Associate professor
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
Assistant Professor Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics 8.11.2017-now
Postdoctoral Fellow Institute of Science and Technology, Austria 1.9.2013-31.8.2017
Assistant Professor Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics 1.9.2009-31.8.2013

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

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other IV.b - Name of the institution IV.c - Year
Organization of correspondence seminars in mathematics for talented elementary school students Gymnázium Grosslingova, Bratislava 1997-1999
Organization of correspondence seminars in mathematics for talented high school students Comenius University in Bratislava 1999-2001
One month long pedagogic workshop at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI University od Michigan, Ann Arbor 2004
Teaching bachelor degree students in English University od Michigan, Ann Arbor 2004-2009
Scientific outreach in a high school Gymnázium Grosslingova, Bratislava 2019
Scientific outreach (panel discussions, open campus days) Comenius University in Bratislava 2018-2024
Scientific outreach (public lectures) Comenius University in Bratislava 2018-2021
Participation in organization of the camp of the correspondence seminar in evolutionary biology STEB IST Austria 2019
Work on the assignments for the correspondence seminar in evolutionary biology STEB IST Austria 2019
Member of pedagogical commitee Comenius University in Bratislava 2020-2021

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
Special genetics (3) Genetics II. Biology
Algorithms on Networks Managerial Mathematics II. Mathematics
Network Science Managerial Mathematics, Data Science I. + II. Mathematics
Nonlinear Stochastic Optimization Managerial Mathematics II. Mathematics
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)
0
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
1
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
0
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
12
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
9
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
0
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
33
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
11
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
19
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
9
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
195
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
120
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
104
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
51
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
15, 9
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
2, 3
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

Dynamic pathogen detection and social feedback shape collective hygiene in ants, B Casillas-Pérez, K Boďová, AV Grasse, G Tkačik, S Cremer, Nature Communications 14 (1), (2023)

2

Probabilistic models of individual and collective animal behaviors Boďová, K., Mitchell, G.J., Harpaz, R., Schneidman, E., Tkačik, G. PLoS ONE 13(3): e0193049 (2018)

3

Evolutionary Pathways for the Generation of New Self-Incompatibility Haplotypes in a Nonself-Recognition System, K Boďová, T Priklopil, DL Field, NH Barton, M Pickup, Genetics 209 (3), 861-883 (2018)

4

Characterizing spiking in noisy type II neurons, K Boďová, D Paydarfar, DB Forger, Journal of theoretical biology 365, 40-54 (2015)

5

A General Approximation for the Dynamics of Quantitative Traits, K Boďová, G Tkačik, NH Barton, Genetics 202 (4) (2016)

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
1

Dynamic pathogen detection and social feedback shape collective hygiene in ants, B Casillas-Pérez, K Boďová, AV Grasse, G Tkačik, S Cremer, Nature Communications 14 (1), (2023)

2

Dynamic maximum entropy provides accurate approximation of structured population dynamics, K Boďová, E Szép, NH Barton, PLOS Computational Biology 17 (12), e1009661 (2021)

3

Spatial scales, patterns, and positivity trends of SARS-CoV-2 pandemics in mass rapid antigen testing in Slovakia, K Boďová, R Kollár, PloS one 16 (8), e0256669 (2021)

4

A stochastic model of ant trail formation and maintenance in static and dynamic environments, K Dodoková, M Malíčková, C Yates, A Dussutour, K Boďová, Swarm Intelligence, 1-37 (2024)

5

Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies in the staff of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in response to COVID-19 and/or vaccination: situation in August 2021, Kajanova, I., Lukacikova, L., Jelenska, L., Grossmannova, K., Radikova, Z., Vlcek, M. Klempa, B., Kollar, R., Bodova, K., Kopacek, J., Pastorekova, S., Acta Virologica 65(4): 420-432 (2021)

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
1

[Noise-induced statistically stable oscillations in a deterministically divergent nonlinear dynamical system. (2011)]

Pavliotis, G.A., 2014. Stochastic processes and applications. Texts in applied mathematics, 60, pp.41-43.

2

[A general approximation for the dynamics of quantitative traits (2016)]

Nguyen, H. Chau, Riccardo Zecchina, and Johannes Berg. "Inverse statistical problems: from the inverse Ising problem to data science." Advances in physics 66, no. 3 (2017): 197-261.

3

[Characteristic spatial scales of SARS-CoV-2 pandemics: lessons from mass rapid antigen testing in Slovakia. (2020)]

Brümmer, Lukas E., Stephan Katzenschlager, Mary Gaeddert, Christian Erdmann, Stephani Schmitz, Marc Bota, Maurizio Grilli et al. "Accuracy of novel antigen rapid diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2: A living systematic review and meta-analysis." PLoS medicine 18, no. 8 (2021): e1003735.

4

[Models and measures of mixing and effective diffusion. (2010)]

Thiffeault, Jean-Luc. "Using multiscale norms to quantify mixing and transport." Nonlinearity 25, no. 2 (2012): R1-R44.

5

[Probabilistic models of individual and collective animal behaviors (2018)]

Johnson, Robert Evan, Scott Linderman, Thomas Panier, Caroline Lei Wee, Erin Song, Kristian Joseph Herrera, Andrew Miller, and Florian Engert. "Probabilistic models of larval zebrafish behavior reveal structure on many scales." Current Biology 30, no. 1 (2020): 70-82.

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
1

Stipend of the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia under the project R3 No. 09I03-03-V04-00037, Robust estimation of stochastic dynamics from tracked data (2024-2026), project leader

2

VEGA 1/0561/25 (SK), Complex process dynamics in applied problems (2025-2029), project leader

3

VEGA 1/0521/20 (SK), Approximate methods for the study of complex systems (2020-2024), project leader

4

APVV PP-COVID-20-0017, Immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection and development of clinically relevant virological tests to improve the management of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021), project member

5

VEGA 1/0755/19 (SK), Mathematical problems in models of dynamics of biological processes (2018-2022), deputy project leader

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

VII.a - Activity, position VII.b - Name of the institution, board VII.c - Duration
Member of pedagogic commitee Comenius University in Bratislava 2020-2021
Work in the state examination boards (as a member, or administrator) for the MMN bachelor's and master's programs at FMFI UK and for the Genetics program at PRIF UK; correction of written tests for for admissions for master's studies. Comenius University in Bratislava 2017 - now
Co-organization of the Student Science Competition Comenius University in Bratislava 2018-2019
Member of the rigorous commission Comenius University in Bratislava 2017

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

VIII.a - Name of the institution VIII.b - Address of the institution VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay) VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany May 14-16 2024 Invited lecture and participation, Women in Evolutionary Biology, workshop
University of Paris-Saclay, FR Pascal Institute, Paris 17.6.-8.7. 2019 Invited workshop attendance
IST Austria Klosterneuburg, Austria repeated short-term visits 2017-now long-term collaboration with Nick Barton and Gašper Tkačik
Simons Institute Berkeley, CA, USA 28.4.-2.5.2014 Invited workshop attendance "New Directions in Probabilistic Models of Evolution"
Institute of Mathematics and Applications Minneapolis, MN, USA 2013 Invited workshop pattendance "Stochastic Modeling of Biological Processes"
IST Austria Klosterneuburg, Austria 1.9.2013-31.8.2017 Postdoctoral employment
University of Oxford UK 3.9.-7.9. 2012 Invited short-term visit, invited by R. Erban
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA 12.2.2012-19.2.2012 Invited visit of the mathematics department, invited by D. Forger
National University of Singapore Singapore 2012 Invited visit of the mathematics department, invited by Ji Hui
American Institute of Mathematics Palo Alto, CA, USA Feb 20-24, 2012 Invited workshop attendance "Stochastic dynamics of small networks of neurons"

IX. - Other relevant facts

IX.a - If relevant, other activities related to higher education or research/artistic/other activities are mentioned

Reviews in international and Slovak journals in the areas of mathematics and applied sciences (Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal of Nonlinear Science, American Naturalist, Communications in Mathematical Sciences, Ecological Modeling, IEEE, ...) 

Date of last update
2026-03-02