Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
doc. RNDr. Juraj Tóth, 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
Tóth
I.2 - Name
Juraj
I.3 - Degrees
doc., RNDr., PhD.
I.4 - Year of birth
1975
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Fakulta matematiky, fyziky a informatiky / Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Katedra astronómie, fyziky Zeme a meteorológie / Department of Astronomy, Physics of the Earth and Meteorology Mlynská dolina 842 48 Bratislava
I.7 - Position
profesor / professor
I.8 - E-mail address
toth@fmph.uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/4761
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
fyzika / Physics
I.11 - ORCID iD
0000-0002-1918-4589

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, Matematicko-fyzikálna fakulta / Comenius University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
II.b - Year
1998
II.c - Study field and programme
fyzika/Physics
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Fakulta matematiky, fyziky a informatiky / Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty o Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
II.b - Year
2005
II.c - Study field and programme
astronómia a astrofyzika / astronomy and astrophysics
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Fakulta matematiky, fyziky a informatiky / Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty o Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
II.b - Year
2017
II.c - Study field and programme
fyzika / Physics
II.5 - Professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Fakulta matematiky, fyziky a informatiky / Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty o Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
II.b - Year
2024
II.c - Study field and programme
fyzika / Physics
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
vedecký pracovník / researcher Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Fakulta matematiky, fyziky a informatiky / Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics 1998-2015
vedecký pracovník / researcher Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Fakulta matematiky, fyziky a informatiky / Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics 2015-2017
docent / Associate Professor Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Fakulta matematiky, fyziky a informatiky / Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics 2017 - 2021
funkčný profesor/ professor Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Fakulta matematiky, fyziky a informatiky / Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics 2021 - present

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
Astronómia a astrofyzika / Astronomy and Astrophysics fyzika/Physics I. fyzika/Physics
Planetárna kozmogónia /Planetary Cosmogony astronómia a astrofyzika / Astronomy and astrophysics II. fyzika/Physics
Medziplanetárna hmota 2 / Interplanetary Matter 2 astronómia a astrofyzika / Astronomy and astrophysics II. fyzika/Physics
Fyzika planét/Planetary physics astronómia a astrofyzika / Astronomy and astrophysics II. fyzika/Physics
Populácia meteoroidov/Meteoroids population astronómia a astrofyzika / Astronomy and astrophysics II. fyzika/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
Astronómia a astrofyzika / Astronomy and Astrophysics II. fyzika/Physics
Astronómia a astrofyzika / Astronomy and Astrophysics III. fyzika/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)
1
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
1
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
3
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
18
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
16
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
4
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
Medziplanetárna hmota 2 / Interplanetary Matter 2 astronómia a astrofyzika / astronomy and astrophysics II. fyzika/Physics
Populácia meteoroidov astronómia a astrofyzika / astronomy and astrophysics II. fyzika/Physics
Planetárna kozmogónia /Planetary Cosmogony astronómia a astrofyzika / astronomy and astrophysics II. fyzika/Physics
Astronómia a astrofyzika / Astronomy and Astrophysics fyzika/Physics I. fyzika/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
300
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
80
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
64
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
32
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
450
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
240
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
420
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
320
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

Tóth J., Vereš, P., Kornoš L.: 2011, Tidal disruption of NEAs - a case of Pribram meteorite, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 415, 1527-1533

2

Tóth, Juraj; Kornoš, Leonard ; Vereš, Peter ; Šilha, Jirí ; Kalmančok, Dušan ; Zigo, Pavol ; Világi, Jozef: All-Sky Video Orbits of Lyrids 2009. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Volume 63, Issue 2, p.331-334, (2011)

3

Borovička J., Toth J., Igaz A., Spurny P., Kalenda P, Haloda J., Svoren J., Kornos L., Silber E., Brown P., and Husarik M. 2013. The Kosice meteorite fall: Atmospheric trajectory, fragmentation and orbit. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 48 - 10, 1757–1779.

4

Tóth J., Svoreň J., Borovička J., Spurný P., Igaz A., Kornoš L., Vereš P., Husárik M., Koza J., Kučera A., Zigo P., Gajdoš Š., Világi J., Čapek D., Krišandová Z., Tomko D., Šilha J., Schunová E., Bodnárová M., Búzová D., and Krejčová,T. 2015. The Košice meteorite fall: Recovery and strewn field, Meteoritics and Planetary Science 50 - 5, 853-863.

5

Iwan P Williams, Tadeusz J Jopek, Regina Rudawska, Juraj Tóth, Leonard Kornoš, Minor meteor showers and the sporadic background, Meteoroids: Sources of Meteors on Earth and Beyond, Ryabova G. O., Asher D. J., and Campbell-Brown M. D. (eds.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 336 pp., ISBN 9781108426718, 2019, p. 210-234

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

Tóth, J., Matlovič, P., et al., Overview of the MetSpec project - Artificial meteors in ground testing, Icarus, 2023,115791, doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115791.

2

Matlovič, P., Pisarčíková, A., Pazderová, V., Loehle, S., Tóth, J., Ferrière, L., Čermák, P., Leiser, D., Vaubaillon, J., Ravichandran, R., Spectral properties of ablating meteorite samples for improved meteoroid composition diagnostics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 689, A323, 2024.

3

Povinec, P.P., Sýkora, I., Macke, R.J., Tóth, J., Kornoš, L., Porubčan, V., Radionuclides in Chassigny and Nakhla meteorites of Mars origin: Implications for their pre-atmospheric sizes and cosmic-ray exposure ages, Planetary and Space Science, 2020, 186, 104914

4

Pisarčíková, A., Matlovič, P., Tóth, J. et al., Analysis of CN emission as a marker of organic compounds in meteoroids using laboratory simulated meteors, Icarus, vol. 404, 2023. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115682.

5

Pavol Matlovič, Juraj Tóth, Meteors: Light from Comets and Asteroids, Reviews in Frontiers of Modern Astrophysics; From Space Debris to Cosmology, edited by Kabáth, Petr; Jones, David; Skarka, Marek. ISBN: 978-3-030-38509-5. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020, pp. 23-44

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

Tóth J., Vereš, P., Kornoš L.: 2011, Tidal disruption of NEAs - a case of Pribram meteorite, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 415, 1527-1533: Skulteti, A. - Kereszturi, A. - Kereszty, Z. - Pal, B. - Szabo, M. - Cipriani, F.: Role of spectral resolution for infrared asteroid compositional analysis using meteorite spectra. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety, Vol. 496, No. 1, 2020, s. 689-694

2

Tóth, Juraj; Kornoš, Leonard ; Vereš, Peter ; Šilha, Jirí ; Kalmančok, Dušan ; Zigo, Pavol ; Világi, Jozef: All-Sky Video Orbits of Lyrids 2009. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Volume 63, Issue 2, p.331-334, (2011): Brown, P. - Marchenko, V. - Moser, D. E. - Weryk, R. - Cooke, W.: Meteorites from meteor showers: A case study of the Taurids. In: Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2013, s. 270-288 

3

Borovička J., Toth J., Igaz A., Spurny P., Kalenda P, Haloda J., Svoren J., Kornos L., Silber E., Brown P., and Husarik M. 2013. The Kosice meteorite fall: Atmospheric trajectory, fragmentation and orbit. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 48 - 10, 1757–1779.: Register, P. J. - Aftosmis, M. J. - Stern, E. C. - Brock, J. M. - Seltner, P. M. - Willems, S. - Guelhan, A. - Mathias, D. L.: Interactions between asteroid fragments during atmospheric entry. In: Icarus, Vol. 337, 2020

4

Tóth J., Svoreň J., Borovička J., Spurný P., Igaz A., Kornoš L., Vereš P., Husárik M., Koza J., Kučera A., Zigo P., Gajdoš Š., Világi J., Čapek D., Krišandová Z., Tomko D., Šilha J., Schunová E., Bodnárová M., Búzová D., and Krejčová,T. 2015. The Košice meteorite fall: Recovery and strewn field, Meteoritics and Planetary Science 50 - 5, 853-863.: Brown, P. G. - Vida, D. - Moser, D. E. - Granvik, M. - Koshak, W. J. - Chu, D. - Steckloff, J. - Licata, A. - Hariri, S. - Mason, J. - Mazur, M. - Cooke, W. - Krzeminski, Z.: The Hamburg meteorite fall: Fireball trajectory, orbit,and dynamics. In: Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 54, No. 9, 2019

5

26. Tóth J., Kornoš L., Zigo P., Gajdoš Š., Kalmančok D., Világi J., Šimon J., Vereš P., Šilha J., Buček M., Galád A., Rusňák P., Hrábek P., Ďuriš F., Rudawska R., All-sky Meteor Orbit System AMOS and preliminary analysis of three unusual meteor showers, Planet. and Space Science, 118, 2015, 102-106: Muinonen, K. - Granvik, M. - Penttila, A. - Gritsevich, M.: Asteroids, Comets, Meteors, and their Interrelations, Part I: Editorial review. In: Planetary and Space Science, 1-7 

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

2024-2028 APVV-23-0323: Dynamické a fyzikálne vlastnosti meteoroidov/Dynamical and physical properties of meteoroids, Zodpovedný riešiteľ/Principal investigator.

2

2016-2021, APVV-16-0148 - “Fyzikálne vlastnosti a dynamika meteoroidov“ / “Physical properties and dynamics of meteoroids” - Zodpovedný riešiteľ / Principial investigator 

3

2017-2020, ERASMUS+ KA2_K203 "Per aspera ad astra simul (Through difficulties to the stars together)”, zodpovedný riešiteľ za FMFI UK / principal investigator for FMPI CU

4

2022-2024, ESA Contract no. 4000140012/22NL/SC -“Hα and CN emissions as tracers of H2O molecules and organic compounds in meteoroids: a feasibility study and instrument design, člen riešiteľského kolektívu / member

5

2019-2022, ESA PECS Grant No. 4000128930_19_NL_SC - ”Study of meteoroid composition by meteor spectroscopy and simulated ablation of meteorites”, zodpovedný riešiteľ / principal investigator

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
vice-president/ Member of Organizing Committee International Astronomical Union - Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology; Commission F1 Meteors, Meteorites and Interplanetary Dust od 2018/since 2018
člen/member Narodný komitét astronómia IAU/Member of the National Committee for Astronomy in Slovakia od 2018/since 2018
vice-president Medzinárodná meteorická organizácia/International Meteor Organization od 2017/since 2017
člen/member Slovenská astronomická spločnosť/Slovak Astronomical Society od 1998/since 1998
prodekan pre vedu, výskum a zahraničné vzťahy Fakulta matematiky, fyziky a informatiky UK/Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics CU 2019-2023
podpredeseda Vedecká rada FMFI UK/Scientific Council FMFI CU 2019-2023

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)
Institut für Raumfahrtsysteme, Universität Stuttgart / Institute of Space Systems, University of Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 29, 70569 Stuttgart, Nemecko / Germany 2018 - 2022; 3 týždňe / 3 weeks Bilaterálna spolupráca na výskumnom projekte / Bilateral cooperation for a research project (ESA PECS projekt/project 4000128930_19_NL_SC - MetSpec)
Vatikánske observatórium / Vatican Observatory Piazza Pia n. 5, Albano Laziale, Taliansko / Italy 05/1997- 07/1997; 06/1998, 06/2002, 06/2014, 05/2018, 09/2019; 1.5 mesiaca / 1.5 month Medzinárodný výskumný a zaúčací program pre astronómov / International research and study programme for astronomers - Vatican Observatory Summer School 1997, Super Vatican Observatory Summer School 1998, 2002, 2014, 2019
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias / Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands "Apartado de Correos 50 C/ Cuesta de San José, s/n E-38712 - Breña Baja - La Palma, Španielsko / Spain" 09/2019 - 12/2019; 3 mesiace / 3 months Výskumný pobyt v rámci mobilitnej schémy ERASMUS+, zameraný na rozvoj bilaterálnej spolupráce v astronomickom výskume / Science stay within the mobility programme ERASMUS+, focused on the development of bilateral cooperation in astronomical research
Európska vesmírna agentúra/European Space Agency Estec, ESA, Noordwijk, NL 2014, 2016 - 2 týždne/weeks Výskum v oblasti malých telies Slnečnej sústavy/Research on small Solar system bodies
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, USA 2018, 2020 - 4 týždne/weeks Výskum v oblasti meteorov, projekt AMOS/Meteor research, project AMOS
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, USA 2022 - 4 týždne/weeks Výskum v oblasti meteorov, projekt AMOS/Meteor research, project AMOS

IX. - Other relevant facts

Date of last update
2025-01-23