I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname

Kučerka

I.2 - Name

Norbert

I.3 - Degrees

Mgr., DrSc.

I.4 - Year of birth

1976

I.5 - Name of the workplace

Department of physical chemistry of drugs, Faculty of pharmacy, Comenius University Bratislava

I.6 - Address of the workplace

Odbojárov 10, 832 32 Bratislava

I.7 - Position

researcher

I.8 - E-mail address

norbert.kucerka@fpharm.uniba.sk

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

https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/3736

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

Pharmacy

I.11 - ORCID iD

0000-0002-1075-6640

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 and physics

II.b - Year

1999

II.c - Study field and programme

Theoretical and mathematical physics

II.3 - Third degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Faculty of mathematics, physics and informatics, Comenius University Bratislava

II.b - Year

2003

II.c - Study field and programme

biophysics

II.4 - Associate professor

II.5 - Professor

II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

II.a - Name of the university or institution

University of Pavol Josef Šafárik in Košice

II.b - Year

2017

II.c - Study field and programme

biophysics

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position	III.b - Institution	III.c - Duration
researcher	Faculty of pharmacy, Comenius University Bratislava	1999-2003, since 2007
deputy director	Frank Laboratory of neutron physics, Joint Institute for nuclear research, Dubna, Russia	since 2014

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
Higher European Research Course for Users of Large Experimental Systems	Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique	2001

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.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.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
biophysics	pharmacy	I.+II.	pharmacy

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

VI.1.a - Overall

161

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

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

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

VI.1.a - Overall

7681

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

215

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

Fluid phase lipid areas and bilayer thicknesses of commonly used phosphatidylcholines as a function of temperature Kučerka, N., Nieh, M.-P., Katsaras, J. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes, 2011, 1808(11), pp. 2761–2771

Structure of fully hydrated fluid phase lipid bilayers with monounsaturated chains Kučerka, N., Tristram-Nagle, S., Nagle, J.F. Journal of Membrane Biology, 2006, 208(3), pp. 193–202

Structure of fully hydrated fluid phase DMPC and DLPC lipid bilayers using x-ray scattering from oriented multilamellar arrays and from unilamellar vesicles Kučerka, N., Liu, Y., Chu, N., ...Tristram-Nagle, S., Nagle, J.F. Biophysical Journal, 2005, 88(4), pp. 2626–2637

Lipid bilayer structure determined by the simultaneous analysis of neutron and X-ray scattering data Kučerka, N., Nagle, J.F., Sachs, J.N., ...Jackson, A., Katsaras, J. Biophysical Journal, 2008, 95(5), pp. 2356–2367

The functional significance of lipid diversity: Orientation of cholesterol in bilayers is determined by lipid species Kučerka, N., Marquardt, D., Harroun, T.A., ...Wassall, S.R., Katsaras, J. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131(45), pp. 16358–16359

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

Overlay databank unlocks data-driven analyses of biomolecules for all. Anne M. Kiirikki, Hanne S. Antila, Lara S. Bort, Pavel Buslaev, Fernando Favela-Rosales, Tiago Mendes Ferreira, Patrick F.J. Fuchs, Rebeca Garcia-Fandino, Ivan Gushchin, Batuhan Kav, Norbert Kučerka, Patrik Kula, Milla Kurki, Alexander Kuzmin, Anusha Lalitha, Fabio Lolicato, Jesper J. Madsen, Markus S. Miettinen, Cedric Mingham, Luca Monticelli, Ricky Nencini, Alexey M. Nesterenko, Thomas J. Piggot, Ángel Pineiro, Nathalie Reuter, Suman Samantray, Fabián Suárez-Lestón, Reza Talandashti, and O. H. Samuli Ollila, Nature Communications 15 (2024) 1136:1-15

Amyloid-beta peptide (25–35) triggers a reorganization of lipid membranes driven by temperature changes Ivankov, O., Murugova, T.N., Ermakova, E.V., ...Kuklin, A.I., Kučerka, N. Scientific Reports, 2021, 11(1), 21990

Investigating the competitive effects of cholesterol and melatonin in model lipid membranes Kondela, T., Dushanov, E., Vorobyeva, M., ...Leonenko, Z., Kučerka, N. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes, 2021, 1863(9), 183651

Cation-zwitterionic lipid interactions are affected by the lateral area per lipid Kucerka, N., Ermakova, E., Dushanov, E., ...Zelinska, K., Uhríkova, D. Langmuir, 2021

Long and very long lamellar phases in model stratum corneum lipid membranes Pullmannová, P., Ermakova, E., Kováčik, A., ...Kučerka, N., Vávrová, K. Journal of Lipid Research, 2019, 60(5), pp. 963–971

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

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

2019 – 2022 Principal investigator of Russian Science Foundation grant 19-72-20186

2020 - 2023 Co-proponent of VEGA grant 1/0223/20

2016 – 2019 Co-proponent of VEGA grant 1/0916/16

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
plenipotentiary of CU	National platform for the collaboration with ILL	since 2020
representative of SR	Institute of Laue-Langevine	since 2015

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)
Frank laboratory of neutron physics, Joint institute for nuclear research	Dubna, Russia	04-07, 2000; 09-12,2001	3-month internship seconded by MŠVaV SR

IX. - Other relevant facts

Date of last update

2025-02-05

Name and surname:	Mgr. Norbert Kučerka, 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