I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname

Martoňák

I.2 - Name

Roman

I.3 - Degrees

Prof. Ing., DrSc.

I.4 - Year of birth

1964

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 F2 842 48 Bratislava

I.7 - Position

professor

I.8 - E-mail address

martonak@fmph.uniba.sk

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

https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/4653

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

13. - physics

I.11 - ORCID iD

0000-0002-4013-9117

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 electrical enginnering, Slovak Technical University

II.b - Year

1987

II.c - Study field and programme

Solid state engineering

II.3 - Third degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) Trieste, Taliansko

II.b - Year

1993

II.c - Study field and programme

Condensed Matter Theory

II.4 - Associate professor

II.a - Name of the university or institution

habilitation at ETH Zürich

II.b - Year

2005

II.c - Study field and programme

Computational Physics

II.5 - Professor

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University ín Bratislava

II.b - Year

2014

II.c - Study field and programme

Physics

II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University ín Bratislava

II.b - Year

2008

II.c - Study field and programme

Condensed matter physics and acoustics

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position	III.b - Institution	III.c - Duration
professor	Comenius University ín Bratislava	2014 - present
associate professor	Comenius University ín Bratislava	2006 - 2014
visiting associate professor	Slovak Technical University	2000 - 2001
assistant professor	Slovak Technical University	2000 - 2000

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
Structure and mechanical properties of solids	Solid state physics	2.	Physics
Ab initio modeling of materials	Condensed matter physics and acoustics	3.	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	2.	Physics
Condensed matter physics and acoustics	3.	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.3.a - Name of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure	V.3.b - Study field to which it is assigned
Physics	Physics

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

V.5.a - Name of the course	V.5.b - Study programme	V.5.c - Degree	V.5.d - Field of study
Computer Simulations of Condensed Matter	Solid State Physics	2.	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

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

5723

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

2078

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

VI.1.a - Overall

4044

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

1487

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

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

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

Santoro, GE, Martonak, R, Tosatti, E, Car, R Theory of quantum annealing of an Ising spin glass SCIENCE, 295, 2427 (2002)

Martonak, R, Laio, A, Parrinello, M Predicting crystal structures: The Parrinello-Rahman method revisited PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 90, 075503 (2003)

Oganov, AR, Martonak, R, Laio, A, Raiteri, P, Parrinello, M Anisotropy of Earth's D '' layer and stacking faults in the MgSiO3 post-perovskite phase NATURE, 438, 1142 (2005)

Martonak, R, Donadio, D, Oganov, AR, Parrinello, M Crystal structure transformations in SiO2 from classical and ab initio metadynamics NATURE MATERIALS, 5, 623 (2006)

Behler, J, Martonak, R, Donadio, D, Parrinello, M Metadynamics simulations of the high- pressure phases of silicon employing a high-dimensional neural network potential PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 100, 185501 (2008)

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

Nucleating a Different Coordination in a Crystal under Pressure: A Study of the B1-B2 Transition in NaCl by Metadynamics Matej Badin and Roman Martonak Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 105701 (2021)

Pressure-induced amorphization and existence of molecular and polymeric amorphous forms in dense SO2 Huichao Zhang, Ondrej Tóth, Xiao-Di Liu, Roberto Bini, Eugene Gregoryanz, Philip Dalladay-Simpson, Simone De Panfilis, Mario Santoro, Federico Aiace Gorelli, and Roman Martoňák PNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8736-8742

High-Pressure Structural Evolution of Disordered Polymeric CS2

Jinwei Yan, Ondrej Tóth, Wan Xu, Xiao-Di Liu, Eugene Gregoryanz, Philip Dalladay-Simpson, Zeming Qi, Shiyu Xie, Federico Gorelli, Roman Martoňák, and Mario Santoro

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 7229−7235

Pressure-induced structural transformation of clathrate Ge136 via ultrafast recrystallization of an amorphous intermediate

Marián Ryník, Stefano Leoni, and Roman Martoňák

PHYSICAL REVIEW B 105, 134107 (2022)

Study of polymerization of high-pressure nitrogen by ab initio molecular dynamics

Dominika Melicherová, Roman Martoňák

J. Chem. Phys. 158, 244503 (2023)

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

Oliver, W. D.: Quantum physics: Keep your feet on the ground. In: Nature, Vol. 473, No. 7346, 2011, s. 164-165 (citation of paper VI.2.1)

Yu, T.-Q. - Tuckerman, M. E.: Temperature-accelerated method for exploring polymorphism in molecular crystals based on free energy. In: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 107, No. 1, 2011, Art. No. 015701 (citation of paper VI.2.2)

Carrez, P. - Ferre, D. - Cordier, P.: Implications for plastic flow in the deep mantle from modelling dislocations in MgSiO3 minerals. In: Nature, Vol. 446, No. 7131, 2007, s. 68-70 (citation of paper VI.2.3)

Pellicer-Porres, J. - Saitta, A. M. - Polian, A. - Itie, J. P. - Hanfland, M.: Six-fold-coordinated phosphorus by oxygen in AIPO(4) quartz homeotype under high pressure. In: Nature Materials, Vol. 6, No. 9, 2007, s. 698-702 (citation of paper VI.2.4)

Deringer, VL - Bernstein, N - Csanyi, G - Ben Mahmoud, C - Ceriotti, M - Wilson, M - Drabold, DA - Elliott, SR: Origins of structural and electronic transitions in disordered silicon Nature 589, 59 (2021) (citation of paper VI.2.5)

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

APVV-23-0515, principal investigator, Complex phases and phase transitions in crystals, 07/2024 - 06/2028, funding 134056 EUR

APVV-19-0371, principal investigator, Application of machine learning approaches in condensed matter physics, 07/2020 - 06/2024, funding 146000 EUR

VEGA 1/0640/20, principal investigator, Modeling of new phases and phase transitions in condensed matter, 01/2020 - 12/2022, funding 2020 - 10630 EUR, 2021 - 10765 EUR, 2022 - 10537 EUR

APVV-15-0496, principal investigator, Novel phases and phase transitions in condensed matter, 7/2016 - 12/2019, funding 156346 EUR

APVV-19-0311, team member, Robust Spin Waves for Future Magnonic Applications, 07/2020 - 06/2024, funding 195998 EUR

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
deputy head (for research) of the Department of Experimental Physics	Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava	2012 - present
member of the PhD study board Condensed matter physics and acoustics, Theoretical and mathematical physics, Chemical physics	Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava	2015 - 2022
member of the scientific council	Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava	2019 - present
member of the work group for physics	Accreditation Comission of the Slovak Republic	2012 - 2019
member of the PhD study board Theoretical physics	Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Kosice	2016 - present
chairman of the PhD study board Condensed matter physics and acoustics	Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava	2022 - present
member	Learned Society of Slovakia	2019 - present
member	Slovak Commission for Scientific Degrees	2021 - present
member	European High-Pressure Research Group Committee	2017 - 2020

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)
EPFL Lausanne	Lausanne, Switzerland	06/2012 - 07/2012	visiting professor
ETH Zurich	Zurich, Switzerland	2001 - 2006	research fellow in the group of Prof. M. Parrinello
Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Rersearch	Stuttgart, Germany	1998 – 1999	postdoc in the group of Prof. M. Parrinello
Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg- Universität	Mainz, Germany	1995 – 1997	postdoc in the group of Prof. K. Binder
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)	Trieste, Italy	1993 – 1994	postdoc in the group of Prof. E. Tosatti

IX. - Other relevant facts

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

h-index 35 (Google Scholar November 2024), 5 papers published in Nature Index journals from 2017 till 2021, awards Cena za vedu a techniku 2017 – Osobnosť vedy a techniky, Prémia literárneho fondu za trojročný vedecký ohlas v kategórii Prírodné a lekárske vedy za rok 2016, in 2015 nominated by the Accreditation comission as member of the top scientific team Physics of complex systems, award Prémia literárneho fondu za trojročný vedecký ohlas v kategórii Prírodné a lekárske vedy za rok 2013, reviewer of PhD theses abroad - Cardiff, 2xParis, Trieste, Zurich, 2x Milano, 2x Uppsala, Moscow, reviewing for journals Nature, Nature Comm., Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. B, Phys. Rev. E, J. Chem. Phys., J. Phys. Chem. Lett., Inorg. Chem. etc.

Date of last update

2024-11-26

Name and surname:	prof. Ing. Roman Martoňák, DrSc.
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