I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname

Povinec

I.2 - Name

Pavel

I.3 - Degrees

Prof. RNDr., DrSc.

I.4 - Year of birth

1942

I.5 - Name of the workplace

Katedra jadrovej fyziky a biofyziky FMFI UK

I.6 - Address of the workplace

Mlynska dolina F1

I.7 - Position

vedecký pracovník

I.8 - E-mail address

pavel.povinec@uniba.sk

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

https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/4705

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

fyzika

I.11 - ORCID iD

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0275-794X

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

Univerzita Komenského

II.b - Year

1965

II.c - Study field and programme

fyzika

II.3 - Third degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Univerzita Komenského

II.b - Year

1973

II.c - Study field and programme

fyzika

II.4 - Associate professor

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Univerzita Komenského

II.b - Year

1977

II.c - Study field and programme

fyzika

II.5 - Professor

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Univerzita Komenského

II.b - Year

1984

II.c - Study field and programme

fyzika

II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Univerzita Komenského

II.b - Year

1983

II.c - Study field and programme

fyzika

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position	III.b - Institution	III.c - Duration
Scientific worker	Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of the Comenius University	2005 - till now
Professor	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Comenius University	1984-1992
Assoc. Professor, Assistent Professor	Faculty of Natural Sciences	1965-1980

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
English seminar in nuclear and subnuclear physics	Nuclear and subnuclear physics	III	Physics
Accelerator ion technologies	Nuclear and subnuclear physics	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.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.c - Dissertation (third degree)

V.4.2 - Number of defended theses

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
Ecosystems and their interractions	Environmental 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

800

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

119

VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

410

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

115

VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

13 470

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

6460

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

VI.1.a - Overall

8160

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

6200

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

WC Burnett, PK Aggarwal, A Aureli, H Bokuniewicz, JE Cable, ...P.Povinec,...Quantifying submarine groundwater discharge in the coastal zone via multiple methods, Science of the total Environment 367 (2-3), 498-543.

O Masson, A Baeza, J Bieringer, K Brudecki, S Bucci, M Cappai, ..., P. Povinec,...Tracking of airborne radionuclides from the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactors by European networks. Environmental science & technology 45 (18), 7670-7677.

R Arnold, C Augier, J Baker, AS Barabash, A Basharina-Freshville, ..., P. Povinec,...Probing new physics models of neutrinoless double beta decay with SuperNEMO. European Physical Journal C 70 (4), 927-943

A Aarkrog, MS Baxter, AO Bettencourt, R Bojanowski, A Bologa, ..., P. Povinec,...A comparison of doses from 137Cs and 210Po in marine food: A major international stud. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 34 (1), 69-90.

P. Povinec, K. Hirose, M. Aoyama, Fukushima Accident: Environmental Impact, Elsevier, New York, 2013, 440p.

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

N Abgrall, A Abramov, N Abrosimov, I Abt, M Agostini, M Agartioglu, ..., P. Povinec, The large enriched germanium experiment for neutrinoless double beta decay (LEGEND). AIP CP (2018), 1894 (1), 020027.

R Arnold, C Augier, AS Barabash, A Basharina-Freshville, S Blondel, ..., P. Povinec,..., Final results on 82 Se double beta decay to the ground state of 82. European Physical Journal C 78 (10), 1-15.

O Masson, G Steinhauser, D Zok, O Saunier, H Angelov, D Babić, ..., P. Povinec,... Airborne concentrations and chemical considerations of radioactive ruthenium from an undeclared major nuclear release in 2017. Proc. National Academy of Sciences 116 (34), 16750-16759

PP Povinec, LLW Kwong, J Kaizer, M Molnár, H Nies, L Palcsu, L Papp, ...Impact of the Fukushima accident on tritium, radiocarbon and radiocesium levels in seawater of the western North Pacific Ocean: A comparison with pre-Fukushima situation. Journal of environmental radioactivity 166, 56-66.

PP Povinec, Background constrains of the SuperNEMO experiment for neutrinoless double beta-decay searches. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators …

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

R Arnold, C Augier, AS Barabash, A Basharina-Freshville, S Blondel, ..., P. Povinec,..., Final results on 82 Se double beta decay to the ground state of 82. European Physical Journal C 78 (10), 1-15

R Arnold, C Augier, AM Bakalyarov, JD Baker, AS Barabash, ..., P. Povinec,...Measurement of the double-beta decay half-life and search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of with the NEMO-3 detector. Physical Review D 93 (11), 112008

R Arnold, C Augier, AS Barabash, A Basharina-Freshville, S Blondel, ..., P. Povinec,...Detailed studies of 100 Mo two-neutrino double beta decay in NEMO-3. European Physical Journal C 79 (5), 1-11

R Arnold, C Augier, AS Barabash, A Basharina-Freshville, S Blondel, ...,P.. Povinec,...Search for Neutrinoless Quadruple- Decay of with the NEMO-3 Detector. Physical Review Letters 119 (4), 041801

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

Isotope investigations of meteorites: characterisation of meteorites and cosmic radiation (VEGA 1/0421/20),42 000€, 2020-cont., Chief. Inv.

ACCORD - Advancing university Capacity and Competence in Research, Development and Innovation (EU funding), ITMS2014, no. 313021X329, 1 500 000€, 2019-cont., Member of the research team

Rare nuclear processes and the development of methods for tzheir investigations. APVV-15-0576, 116 000€, 2015-2020, Chief. Inv.

Enhancing capacity for environmental radionuclide monitoring in Slovakia (International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA- SLR/1001), Chief. Inv.

Investigations of Lunar meteorites, Lunar samples and similar meteorites. (VEGA 1/0382/17), 45 000€, 2017-2019, Chief. Inv.

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 the EU Panel on the Consequences of the Fukushima Accident	EU Panel	2012-2013
Member of the Advisory Comittee for the Assessmeent of the Impact of Nuclear Power Stations	Advisory comm. of the Slovak Government	2006-2010
Member of the Comittee for Science and Technology	Advisory comm. of the Slovak Government	1993-1997
Member of the international team for assessment of Fukushima environmental projects in Japan	Advisory comm. of the Japan Government	2014-2015
Member of the international team for the evaluation of radioactivity of food in South Korea	Advisory comm. of the Republic of Korea Government	2016-2018

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)
International Atomic Energy Agency	Monte Carlo, Monaco	1/1/1993 - 31/8/2005	working contract
Meteorological Research Institute	Tsukuba, Japan	2000-2004	1 month visits
University of Nice	Nice, France	2000-2004	1 month visits
European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN	Geneva, Switzerland	1990-1992	1 month visits
Univesrity of Bologna	Bologna, Italy	1990-1992	1 month visits
Austrian Academy of Sciences, HEPHY	Vienna, Austria	1990-1992	1 month visits

IX. - Other relevant facts

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

Nobel Prize for Peace (Member of the IAEA team, 2005),

Hevesy Medal Award 2017 for achievements in nuclear Sciences (Springer, USA),

PROSE Award of American Science Publishers, New York, 2014 (for the best book in Environmental Sciences),

World Council on Isotopes (Member of the Committee “Isotopes in the Environment”: (2004 – ongoing),

European Energy Association (Member of the Committee “Energy and the Environment”): 2000-2008,

IHU Commission for groundwater-seawater interactions (Vicepresident): 2000-2005,

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) (Member of the Reference Materials Committee): 1996-2000

Date of last update

2022-11-16

Name and surname:	prof. RNDr. Pavel Povinec, 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