Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
doc. Mgr. Róbert Breier, 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
Breier
I.2 - Name
Robert
I.3 - Degrees
Mgr., PhD.
I.4 - Year of birth
1983
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Comenius University
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Mlynská dolina F1, 84248 Bratislava
I.7 - Position
Associate Professor
I.8 - E-mail address
robert.breier@fmph.uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/5435
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Physics
I.11 - ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1124-4812

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/Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
II.b - Year
2007
II.c - Study field and programme
Nuclear and subnuclear physics
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University/Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
II.b - Year
2011
II.c - Study field and programme
Nuclear and subnuclear physics
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University/Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
II.b - Year
2022
II.c - Study field and programme
Physics
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
scientist Comenius University/Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics 2011-2021
Associate Professor Comenius University/Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics 2022-

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
Grid cluster adminstrator at FMFI UK Comenius University/Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics 2011-

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
Practical Exercises in Nuclear Physics and Electronics Nuclear and subnuclear physics 2 PHYSICS
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.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.5.a - Name of the course V.5.b - Study programme V.5.c - Degree V.5.d - Field of study
New trends in personal computers Informatics 1 Informatics
Computer Modeling of Environmental Processes Environmental Physics, Renewable Energy Sources, and Meteorology and Climatology 2 Environmental Physics, Renewable Energy Sources, and Meteorology and Climatology
Modelling of Radiation Interaction with Matter Nuclear and subnuclear physics 2 Physics
SQL Databases Mathematical Economics, Finance and Modelling II Mathematics
Rare Nuclear Processes Nuclear and subnuclear physics II Physics

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
70
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
38
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
60
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
28
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
1028
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
752
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
806
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
552
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1
Breier, R., Masarik, J., Palušová, V., Povinec, P.P., Monte-Carlo calculation of production rates of cosmogenic radionuclides in a HPGe detector operating in the Modane underground laboratory (2020) Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 978, art. no. 164355, .
2
Abdelhameed, A.H., Angloher, G., Bauer, P., Bento, A., Bertoldo, E., Breier, R., Bucci, C., Canonica, L., D’Addabbo, A., Lorenzo, S.D., Erb, A., Feilitzsch, F., Iachellini, N.F., Fichtinger, S., Fuss, A., Gorla, P., Hauff, D., Jes̆kovský, M., Jochum, J., Kaizer, J., Kinast, A., Kluck, H., Kraus, H., Langenkämper, A., Mancuso, M., Mokina, V., Mondragón, E., Olmi, M., Ortmann, T., Pagliarone, C., Palus̆ová, V., Pattavina, L., Petricca, F., Potzel, W., Povinec, P., Pröbst, F., Reindl, F., Rothe, J., Schäffner, K., Schieck, J., Schipperges, V., Schmiedmayer, D., Schönert, S., Schwertner, C., Stahlberg, M., Stodolsky, L., Strandhagen, C., Strauss, R., Türkoğlu, C., Usherov, I., Willers, M., Zema, V., Zeman, J. Geant4-based electromagnetic background model for the CRESST dark matter experiment (2019) European Physical Journal C, 79 (10), art. no. 881
3
Breier, R., Povinec, P.P., Simulation of background characteristics of low-level gamma-ray spectrometers using Monte Carlo method (2010) Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 68 (7-8), pp. 1231-1235.
4
Povinec, P.P., Breier, R., Coppola, L., Groening, M., Jeandel, C., Jull, A.J.T., Kieser, W.E., Lee, S.-H., Liong Wee Kwong, L., Morgenstern, U., Park, Y.-H., Z. Top, Tracing of water masses using a multi isotope approach in the southern Indian Ocean (2011) Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 302 (1-2), pp. 14-26.
5
Povinec, P.P., Aoyama, M., Biddulph, D., Breier, R., Buesseler, K., Chang, C.C., Golser, R., Hou, X.L., Ješkovský, M., Jull, A.J.T., Kaizer, J., Nakano, M., Nies, H., Palcsu, L., Papp, L., Pham, M.K., Steier, P., Zhang, L.Y., Cesium, iodine and tritium in NW Pacific waters-a comparison of the Fukushima impact with global fallout (2013) Biogeosciences, 10 (8), pp. 5481-5496.
VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
1
Breier, R., Masarik, J., Palušová, V., Povinec, P.P., Monte-Carlo calculation of production rates of cosmogenic radionuclides in a HPGe detector operating in the Modane underground laboratory (2020) Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 978, art. no. 164355, .
2
Breier, R., Brudanin, V.B., Loaiza, P., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P.P., Rukhadze, E., Rukhadze, N., Štekl, I. Environmental radionuclides as contaminants of HPGe gamma-ray spectrometers: Monte Carlo simulations for Modane underground laboratory (2018) Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 190-191, pp. 134-140.
3
Hauff, D., Jes̆kovský, M., Jochum, J., Kaizer, J., Kinast, A., Kluck, H., Kraus, H., Langenkämper, A., Mancuso, M., Mokina, V., Mondragón, E., Olmi, M., Ortmann, T., Pagliarone, C., Palus̆ová, V., Pattavina, L., Petricca, F., Potzel, W., Povinec, P., Pröbst, F., Reindl, F., Rothe, J., Schäffner, K., Schieck, J., Schipperges, V., Schmiedmayer, D., Schönert, S., Schwertner, C., Stahlberg, M., Stodolsky, L., Strandhagen, C., Strauss, R., Türkoğlu, C., Usherov, I., Willers, M., Zema, V., Zeman, J. Geant4-based electromagnetic background model for the CRESST dark matter experiment (2019) European Physical Journal C, 79 (10), art. no. 881
4

Čechvala, P., Breier, R. & Masarik, J. Production rates of cosmogenic nuclides in extraterrestrial material using GEANT4 software. J Radioanal Nucl Chem332, 4403–4411 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-023-09135-5

5

G. Angloher and S. Banik and G. Benato and A. Bento and A. Bertolini and R. Breier and C. Bucci and J. Burkhart and L. Canonica and A. D’Addabbo and S. {Di Lorenzo} and L. Einfalt and A. Erb and F.v. Feilitzsch and N. {Ferreiro Iachellini} and S. Fichtinger and D. Fuchs and A. Fuss and A. Garai and V.M. Ghete and P. Gorla and S. Gupta and D. Hauff and M. Ješkovský and J. Jochum and M. Kaznacheeva and A. Kinast and H. Kluck and H. Kraus and A. Langenkämper and M. Mancuso and L. Marini and V. Mokina and A. Nilima and M. Olmi and T. Ortmann and C. Pagliarone and L. Pattavina and F. Petricca and W. Potzel and P. Povinec and F. Pröbst and F. Pucci and F. Reindl and J. Rothe and K. Schäffner and J. Schieck and D. Schmiedmayer and S. Schönert and C. Schwertner and M. Stahlberg and L. Stodolsky and C. Strandhagen and R. Strauss and I. Usherov and F. Wagner and M. Willers and V. Zema and F. Ferella and M. Laubenstein and S. Nisi, Secular equilibrium assessment in a CaWO4 target crystal from the dark matter experiment CRESST using Bayesian likelihood normalisation, 2023, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 194, 0969-8043

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
1
Cosmogenic activation in double beta decay experiments, Cebrián, S., Universe 2020, 6(10), 162; https://doi.org/10.3390/universe6100162
2
Guembou Shouop Cebastien Joel, Ndontchueng Moyo Maurice, Nguelem Mekongtso Eric Jilbert, Motapon Ousmanoud Strivay Davida, Monte Carlo method for gamma spectrometry based on GEANT4 toolkit: Efficiency calibration of BE6530 detector, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 189 (2018) 109–119
3
Medhat, M.E., Wang, Y., Estimation of background spectrum in a shielded HPGe detector using Monte Carlo simulations, (2014) Applied Radiation and Isotopes 84, pp. 13-18
4
She, Z., Zeng, Z., Ma, H., (...), Li, J., Zhang, H., Study of cosmogenic activation in copper for rare event search experiments, (2021) European Physical Journal C 81(11),1041
5
Knezevic, J., Mrdja, D., Bikit, K., (...), Slivka, J., Forkapic, S., Optimization of the HPGe detector passive shields by Monte-Carlo simulations, (2019) Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 929, pp. 76-83
VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
1
Monte Carlo vyskum radioaktívneho pozadia pri vyskume velmi vzácnych javov v podzemných laboratóriach.(SK-AT-2017-0019) Zodpovedný riešiteľ
2
Isotope studies of meteorites: characterization of meteorites and cosmic radiation (VEGA 1/0421/20), riešiteľ
3
Rádionuklidy ako stopovače environmentálnych a fyzikálnych procesov (APVV-21-0356)
4
ACCORD - Advancing university Capacity and Competence in Research, Development and Innovation (EU funding)
5

Skúmanie zriedkavých jadrových procesov v podzemných experimentoch(APVV-21-0377)

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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

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)
Technical University of Munich Munic,Nemecko 7.7.-7.9.2010 Research visit
CERN Geneve Switzerland 13.4-28.5.2010 Research visit
SUJV Dubna Dubna, Russia 16.6-05.9.2014 Research visit

IX. - Other relevant facts

Date of last update
2022-11-11