I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname

Gafurov

I.2 - Name

Askar

I.3 - Degrees

Mgr., PhD.

I.4 - Year of birth

1994

I.5 - Name of the workplace

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

I.6 - Address of the workplace

Mlynská dolina F1 842 48 Bratislava

I.7 - Position

Assistant Professor

I.8 - E-mail address

askar.gafurov@fmph.uniba.sk

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

https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/45714

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

Computer Science

I.11 - ORCID iD

0009-0006-5270-831X

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

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

II.b - Year

2016

II.c - Study field and programme

Computer Science

II.2 - Second degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

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

II.b - Year

2018

II.c - Study field and programme

Computer Science

II.3 - Third degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

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

II.b - Year

2022

II.c - Study field and programme

Computer Science

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	Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava	2022-now
Researcher	Scientific Park, Comenius University in Bratislava	2022-2023
Researcher	LIRMM, Montpellier, France	2024-2025

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
Design of efficient algorithms	INF,BIN,DAV	I.	Computer Science
Data management	DAV,BIN,INF	I.	Computer Science
BSc Seminar (2)	DAV	I.	Computer Science
BSc Seminar (2)	BIN	I.	Computer Science

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.4.a - Bachelor's (first 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

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

Brejová, B., Boršová, K., Hodorová, V., Čabanová, V., Gafurov, A., Fričová, D., Neboháčová, M., Vinař, T., Klempa, B. and Nosek, J., 2021. Nanopore sequencing of SARS-CoV-2: Comparison of short and long PCR-tiling amplicon protocols. PLoS One, 16(10), p.e0259277.

Brejová, B., Gafurov, A., Pardubská, D., Sabo, M., & Vinař, T. (2017). Isometric gene tree reconciliation revisited. Algorithms for Molecular Biology, 12(1), 1-16.

Gafurov, A., Vinař, T., Medvedev, P., Brejová, B. (2024). Efficient Analysis of Annotation Colocalization Accounting for Genomic Contexts. In: Ma, J. (eds) Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14758. Springer, Cham.

Gafurov, A., Baláž, A., Amman, F., Boršová, K., Čabanová, V., Klempa, B., Bergthaler, A., Vinař, T. and Brejová, B., 2022. VirPool: model-based estimation of SARS-CoV-2 variant proportions in wastewater samples. BMC bioinformatics, 23(1), p.551.

Gafurov, A., Brejová, B. and Medvedev, P., 2022. Markov chains improve the significance computation of overlapping genome annotations. Bioinformatics, 38(Supplement_1), pp.i203-i211.

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

Gafurov, A., Vinař, T., & Brejová, B. (2021, July). Probabilistic Models of k-mer Frequencies. In Conference on Computability in Europe (pp. 227-236). Springer, Cham.

Gafurov, A., Brejová, B. and Medvedev, P., 2022. Markov chains improve the significance computation of overlapping genome annotations. Bioinformatics, 38(Supplement_1), pp.i203-i211.

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

Liao, Y.-C., Chen, F.-J., Chuang, M.-C., (...), Yu, G.-Y., Huang, T.-S. (2022) High-Integrity Sequencing of Spike Gene for SARS-CoV-2 Variant Determination. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23(6), 3257

Sugi, T., Rahman, M., Rahim, R., (...), Hayashida, K., Yamagishi, J. (2022) COVID-19 Whole-Genome Resequencing with Redundant Tiling PCR and Subtract-Based Amplicon Normalization Successfully Characterized SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Clinical Specimens, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases 2022,2109641

Vacca, D., Fiannaca, A., Tramuto, F., (...), Tripodo, C., Urso, A. (2022) Direct RNA Nanopore Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 Extracted from Critical Material from Swabs, Life 12(1), 69

Li, L., Comi, T.J., Bierman, R.F. and Akey, J.M., 2024. Recurrent gene flow between Neanderthals and modern humans over the past 200,000 years. Science, 385(6705), p.eadi1768.

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

Pan-genome Graph Algorithms and Data Integration (Algoritmy a integrácia dát pre grafy pangenómov), H2020 872539, PANGAIA

Alternative Representations of Big Genomic Data (Broňa Brejová), VEGA 1/0463/20

Non-conventional applications of emerging sequencing technologies in comparative and functional genomics (Nekonvenčné aplikácie nových sekvenačných technológií v komparatívnej a funkčnej genomike) (Jozef Nosek, Tomáš Vinař), APVV-18-0239

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)
Vyskumný pobyt	Pennsylvania, United States of America	October 2021 - February 2022
Postdoctoral Fellowship	LIRMM, Montpellier, France	2024-2025

IX. - Other relevant facts

Date of last update

2026-03-02

Name and surname:	Mgr. Askar Gafurov, 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