Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
doc. RNDr. František Kundracik, CSc.
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
Kundracik
I.2 - Name
František
I.3 - Degrees
assoc.prof. RNDr., CSc.
I.4 - Year of birth
1959
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty of mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Mlynská dolina F1, 84248 Bratislava
I.7 - Position
associate professor
I.8 - E-mail address
frantisek.kundracik@fmph.uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/4631
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Physics

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 in Bratislava
II.b - Year
1984
II.c - Study field and programme
Physics/Physical Electronics and Optics
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
1996
II.c - Study field and programme
Physics/Quantum Electronics and Optics
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2001
II.c - Study field and programme
Physics/Solid State Physics as Acoustics
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 Faculty of mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava 1984 - 2001
associate professor Faculty of mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava 2001 -

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
Programming in C++ FMFI UK + Siemens AG Wien 1993
Statistical methods in accredited laboratories CHTF STU Bratislava + University of Pardubice 1998
Programming in Python FMFI UK 2019
CISCO CCNA Level 2 cerificate SPŠE Adlerova, Bratislava 2023
Electrical competence §21 SPŠE Adlerova Bratislava 2023
See Section IX.

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
Electronic circuits Solid state physics II. Physics
Electromagnetism Physics I. Physics
Basic programming Physics I. Physics
Experimental physics Theory of Physics Education III. 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.2.a - Name of the study programme V.2.b - Degree V.2.c - Field of study
Solid state physics II. Physics
Physics I. Physics
Theory of Physic Education III. Physics
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)
0
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
0
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
7
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
23
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
5
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
Electronics and Communication for Teachers Teacher Training in Physics II. Physics
Basic Electronics Physics I. 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
172
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
22
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
67
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
14
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
959
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
482
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
647
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
279
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
3
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
2
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

The proliferation of space objects is a rapidly increasing source of artificial night sky brightness / Kocifaj, Miroslav (Autor) (25%) ; Kundracik, František (Autor) (25%) ; Barentine, John C. (Autor) (25%) ; Bará, Salvador (Autor) (25%). – DOI 10.1093/mnrasl/slab030. – CCC ; WOS CC ; SCIE ; SCO

In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] : a journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. – Oxford (Veľká Británia) : Oxford University Press. – ISSN 0035-8711. – ISSN (online)

2

Skyglow changes over Tucson, Arizona, resulting from a municipal LED street lighting conversion / Barentine, John C. (Autor) (40%) ; Walker, Constantine E. (Autor) (10%) ; Kocifaj, Miroslav (Autor) (15%) ; Kundracik, František (Autor) (15%) ; Juan, Amy (Autor) (5%) ; Kanemoto, John (Autor) (5%) ; Monrad, Christian K. (Autor) (10%). – DOI 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.02.038. – SCO ; CCC ; WOS CC

In: Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] . – Oxford (Veľká Británia) : Elsevier. Pergamon Press. – ISSN 0022-4073. – ISSN (online) 1879-1352. – č. 212 (2018), s. 10-23 [tlačená forma] [online]

3

Effect of charged-particle surface excitations on near-field optics / Kundracik, František (Autor) (40%) ; Kocifaj, Miroslav (Autor) (40%) ; Videen, Gorden W. (Autor) (10%) ; Klačka, Jozef (Autor) (10%). – DOI 10.1364/AO.54.006674. – CCC ; WOS CC ; SCIE ; SCO

In: Applied Optics [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] . – Washington (USA) : Optica publishing group. – ISSN 0003-6935. – ISSN (online) 1539-4522. – Roč. 54, č. 22 (2015), s. 6674-6681 [tlačená forma] [online]

4

Fitting experimental anhysteretic curves of ferromagnetic materials and investigatin of the effect of temperature and tensile stress / Kvasnica, Branislav (Autor) (50%) ; Kundracik, František (Autor) (50%)

In: Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] . – Amsterdam (Holandsko) : Elsevier. – ISSN 0304-8853. – ISSN (online) 1873-4766. – Roč. 162, č. 1 (1996), s. 43-49 [tlačená forma] [online]

5

ID: 1986858 | An accurate and realistic polarization model for night-sky brightness / Kocifaj, Miroslav (Autor) (30%) ; Markoš, Peter (Autor) (30%) ; Kundracik, František (Autor) (30%) ; Barentine, John C. (Autor) (5%) ; Wallner, Stefan (Autor) (5%). – [recenzované]. – DOI 10.1093/mnrasl/slae048. – SCO ; WOS CC ; SCIE ; CCC

In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] : Letters. – Oxford (Veľká Británia) : Oxford University Press. – ISSN 1745-3925. – ISSN (online) 1745-3933. – Roč. 532, č. 1 (2024), s. L70-L74 [tlačená forma] [online]

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

An accurate and realistic polarization model for night-sky brightness / Kocifaj, Miroslav (Autor) (30%) ; Markoš, Peter (Autor) (30%) ; Kundracik, František (Autor) (30%) ; Barentine, John C. (Autor) (5%) ; Wallner, Stefan (Autor) (5%). – [recenzované]. – DOI 10.1093/mnrasl/slae048. – SCO ; WOS CC ; SCIE ; CCC

In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] : Letters. – Oxford (Veľká Británia) : Oxford University Press. – ISSN 1745-3925. – ISSN (online) 1745-3933. – Roč. 532, č. 1 (2024), s. L70-L74 [tlačená forma] [online]

2

The Nature, Amplitude and Control of Microwave Attenuation in the Atmosphere / Kocifaj, Miroslav (Autor) (30%) ; Kómar, Ladislav (Autor) (20%) ; Kundracik, František (Autor) (20%) ; Markoš, Peter (Autor) (10%) ; Petržala, Jaromír (Autor) (10%) ; Videen, Gorden W. (Autor) (10%). – DOI 10.1029/2021JD034978. – SCO ; WOS CC ; SCIE ; CCC

In: Journal of Geophysical Research [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] : Atmospheres. – Washington (USA) : John Wiley & Sons. American Geophysical Union. – ISSN 2169-897X. – ISSN (online) 2169-8996. – ISSN (chybné) 0148-0227. – Roč. 126, č. 17 (2021), art. no. e2021JD034978, s. [1-14] [tlačená forma] [online]

3

The proliferation of space objects is a rapidly increasing source of artificial night sky brightness / Kocifaj, Miroslav (Autor) (25%) ; Kundracik, František (Autor) (25%) ; Barentine, John C. (Autor) (25%) ; Bará, Salvador (Autor) (25%). – DOI 10.1093/mnrasl/slab030. – CCC ; WOS CC ; SCIE ; SCO

In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] : a journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. – Oxford (Veľká Británia) : Oxford University Press. – ISSN 0035-8711. – ISSN (online) 1365-2966. – Roč. 504, č. 1 (2021), s. L40-L44 [tlačená forma] [online]

4

Optical properties of charged nonspherical particles determined using the discrete dipole approximation / Kundracik, František (Autor) (30%) ; Kocifaj, Miroslav (Autor) (30%) ; Videen, Gorden W. (Autor) (20%) ; Markoš, Peter (Autor) (20%). – DOI 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2020.107245. – SCO ; SCIE ; CCC ; WOS CC

In: Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] . – Oxford (Veľká Británia) : Elsevier. Pergamon Press. – ISSN 0022-4073. – ISSN (online) 1879-1352. – č. 254 (2020), art. no. 107245, s. [1-12] [tlačená forma] [online]

5

Nighttime Atmospheric Scattering Phase Function Derived From the Scattered Light of a Laser Beam / Kocifaj, Miroslav (Autor) (28%) ; Kundracik, František (Autor) (28%) ; Bará, Salvador (Autor) (28%) ; Barentine, John C. (Autor) (10%) ; Wallner, Stefan (Autor) (6%). – [recenzované]. – DOI 10.1029/2022GL098608. – CCC ; WOS CC ; SCIE ; SCO

In: Geophysical Research Letters [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] . – Washington (USA) : John Wiley & Sons. American Geophysical Union. – ISSN 0094-8276. – ISSN (online) 1944-8007. – Roč. 49, č. 10 (2022), art. no. e2022GL098608, s. 1-9 [tlačená forma] [online]

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

The proliferation of space objects is a rapidly increasing source of artificial night sky brightness / Kocifaj, Miroslav (Autor) (25%) ; Kundracik, František (Autor) (25%) ; Barentine, John C. (Autor) (25%) ; Bará, Salvador (Autor) (25%). – DOI 10.1093/mnrasl/slab030. – CCC ; WOS CC ; SCIE ; SCO

In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] : a journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. – Oxford (Veľká Británia) : Oxford University Press. – ISSN 0035-8711. – ISSN (online) 1365-2966. – Roč. 504, č. 1 (2021), s. L40-L44 [tlačená forma] [online]

Ohlas:

Monitoring, trends and impacts of light pollution

Arroyo, HL; Abascal, A; (...); Kyba, CCM

Jun 2024

NATURE REVIEWS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT 5 (6) , pp.417-430

2

The proliferation of space objects is a rapidly increasing source of artificial night sky brightness / Kocifaj, Miroslav (Autor) (25%) ; Kundracik, František (Autor) (25%) ; Barentine, John C. (Autor) (25%) ; Bará, Salvador (Autor) (25%). – DOI 10.1093/mnrasl/slab030. – CCC ; WOS CC ; SCIE ; SCO

In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] : a journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. – Oxford (Veľká Británia) : Oxford University Press. – ISSN 0035-8711. – ISSN (online) 1365-2966. – Roč. 504, č. 1 (2021), s. L40-L44 [tlačená forma] [online]

Ohlas:

The increasing effects of light pollution on professional and amateur astronomy

Perez, AMV

Jun 16 2023

SCIENCE 380 (6650) , pp.1136-1140

3

The proliferation of space objects is a rapidly increasing source of artificial night sky brightness / Kocifaj, Miroslav (Autor) (25%) ; Kundracik, František (Autor) (25%) ; Barentine, John C. (Autor) (25%) ; Bará, Salvador (Autor) (25%). – DOI 10.1093/mnrasl/slab030. – CCC ; WOS CC ; SCIE ; SCO

In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] : a journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. – Oxford (Veľká Británia) : Oxford University Press. – ISSN 0035-8711. – ISSN (online) 1365-2966. – Roč. 504, č. 1 (2021), s. L40-L44 [tlačená forma] [online]

Ohlas:The impact of satellite trails on Hubble Space Telescope observations

Kruk, S; García-Martín, P; (...); McCaughrean, MJ

Mar 2023

NATURE ASTRONOMY 7 (3) , pp.262-268

4

Skyglow changes over Tucson, Arizona, resulting from a municipal LED street lighting conversion / Barentine, John C. (Autor) (40%) ; Walker, Constantine E. (Autor) (10%) ; Kocifaj, Miroslav (Autor) (15%) ; Kundracik, František (Autor) (15%) ; Juan, Amy (Autor) (5%) ; Kanemoto, John (Autor) (5%) ; Monrad, Christian K. (Autor) (10%). – DOI 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.02.038. – SCO ; CCC ; WOS CC

In: Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] . – Oxford (Veľká Británia) : Elsevier. Pergamon Press. – ISSN 0022-4073. – ISSN (online) 1879-1352. – č. 212 (2018), s. 10-23 [tlačená forma] [online]

Ohlas:Changes in night sky brightness after a countywide LED retrofit

Hung, LW; Anderson, SJ; (...); Fristrup, K

Aug 15 2021

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 292

5

Retrieval of Garstang's emission function from all-sky camera images / Kocifaj, Miroslav (Autor) (40%) ; Lamphar, Héctor Antonio Solano (Autor) (30%) ; Kundracik, František (Autor) (30%). – CCC ; WOS CC ; SCO

In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] : a journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. – Oxford (Veľká Británia) : Oxford University Press. – ISSN 0035-8711. – ISSN (online) 1365-2966. – Roč. 453, č. 1 (2015), s. 819-827 [tlačená forma] [online]

Citácia:

Night sky brightness measurement, quality assessment and monitoring

Barentine, JC

Oct 2022

NATURE ASTRONOMY 6 (10) , pp.1120-1132

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

APVV (investigator) - Global Characterization of Skyglow. Project aimed to development of sofisticated models fot the calculation/forecast of light pollution.

2

APVV (investigator) - Comprehensive model of light pollution propagation into the ambient environment.

3

VEGA (investigator) - Diffuse light in urban environment: A new model which embraces the optical properties of a local urban atmosphere. Project is focused on the analysis of aerosol in urban areas and its impact on the diffuse light of the sky. 

4

VEGA (investigator)-Optical characterization of particles in the external and internal environment

5

ESA (ivestigator): Modelling the night sky brightness produced by space objects

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
President The Union od Slovak mathematicians and physicists - branch Bratislava II 2011 -
President of the national comittee Slovak Young physicist's tournament 2006 -
Member of International Organisation Commitee International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) 2006 -

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)
SIEMENS A.G.Wien, Projekt and Softwareentwicklung Siemensstraße 90, 1210 Wien more short-term stays 1991-1993 internship

IX. - Other relevant facts

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

Regular participant/lecturer on the teacher's conferences "Vanovičové dni", "Šoltésove dni" and "Creative physics teacher" - improving pedagogical skills.

Date of last update
2025-01-23