Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
doc. Mgr. Matúš Hyžný, 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
Hyžný
I.2 - Name
Matúš
I.3 - Degrees
doc. Mgr. PhD.
I.4 - Year of birth
1985
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Department of geology and paleontology/Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Prif UK v Bratislave, Ilkovičova 6, Mlynská dolina, 84215 Bratislava, Slovakia
I.7 - Position
Associate Professor
I.8 - E-mail address
matus.hyzny@uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/17952
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Earth Sciences
I.11 - ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8960-2846

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2006
II.c - Study field and programme
geology
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2008
II.c - Study field and programme
geology; paleontology
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2012
II.c - Study field and programme
tectonics; general geology
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2021
II.c - Study field and programme
geology
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
university teacher Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava 2012-2016
project researcher Department of Geology and Paleontology, Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria 2013-2015
researcher Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava 2016 - 2021
associate professor Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava 2022-

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
Course of Cladistics Comenius University in Bratislava, National Taxonomic Facility (NATAF) 2008

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
Palaeoecology Palaeontology II. Earth Sciences
Diploma Thesis I,II Palaeontology II. Earth Sciences
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
Palaeontology II. Earth Sciences
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)
1
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
0
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
3
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
3
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
0
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
Course in Palaeontology Palaeontology I. Earth Sciences
Systematic Palaeontology of Invertebrates Palaeontology I. Earth Sciences

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
180
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
45
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
104
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
40
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
558
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
420
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
536
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
400
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
6
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
5
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

Klompmaker, A.A., Hyžný, M., Portell, R.W., Jauvion, C., Charbonnier, S., Fussell, S.S., Klier, A.T., Tejera, R. & Jakobsen, S. 2019: Muscles and muscle scars in fossil malacostracan crustaceans. Earth-Science Reviews, 194, 306–326.

2

Hyžný, M., Kroh, A., Ziegler, A., Anker, A., Košťák, M., Schlögl, J., Culka, A., Jagt, J.W.M., Fraaije, R.H.B., Harzhauser, M., van Bakel, B.W.M. & Ruman, A. 2017: Comprehensive analysis and reinterpretation of Cenozoic mesofossils reveals ancient origin of the snapping claw of alpheid shrimps. Scientific Reports, 7: 4076.

3

Hyžný, M. & Klompmaker, A.A. 2015: Systematics, phylogeny, and taphonomy of ghost shrimps (Decapoda): a perspective from the fossil record. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 73: 401–437.

4

Hyžný, M., Bruce, N. & Schlögl, J. 2013: An appraisal of the fossil record for the Cirolanidae (Malacostraca: Peracarida: Isopoda: Cymothoida), with a description of a new cirolanid isopod crustacean from the early Miocene of the Vienna Basin (Western Carpathians). Palaeontology 56: 615–630.

5

Hyžný, M. & Schlögl, J. 2011: An early Miocene deep-water decapod crustacean faunule from the Vienna basin (Western Carpathians, Slovakia). Palaeontology 54: 323–349.

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

Hyžný, M., Kovalchuk, O., Świdnicka, E., Barkaszi, Z., Berezovsky, A., Dumitriu, S., Grădianu, I. & Stefaniak, K. 2022: Revisiting brachyuran crabs (Malacostraca: Decapoda) from Oligocene and Miocene fish beds of Europe. Geologica Carpathica, 73, 579–597.

2

Hyžný, M. & Dulai, A. 2021: Badenian decapods of Hungary. GeoLitera Publishing House, Institute of Geosciences, University of Szeged, Hungary. 296 pp. 

3

Hyžný, M. & Zorn, I. 2020: A Catalogue of the Fossil Decapod Crustaceans in the Collections of the Geological Survey of Austria in Vienna. Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, 74, 1–111.

4

Hyžný, M. & Summesberger, H. 2019: A new species of Mesostylus (Decapoda, Axiidea, Callianassidae) – a peep into the private life of a Late Cretaceous burrowing shrimp. Cretaceous Research, 101, 108–123.

5

Klompmaker, A.A., Hyžný, M., Portell, R.W., Jauvion, C., Charbonnier, S., Fussell, S.S., Klier, A.T., Tejera, R. & Jakobsen, S. 2019: Muscles and muscle scars in fossil malacostracan crustaceans. Earth-Science Reviews, 194, 306–326.

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

2019 Wolfe, J.M. - Breinholt, J.W. - Crandall, K.A. - Lemmon, A.R. - Lemmon, E.M. - Timm, L.E. - Siddall, M.E. - Bracken-Grissom, H.D.: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Vol. 286, No. 1901, 2019, Art. No. 20190079 -SCI ; SCOPUS

2

2019 Baillie, C. - Welicky, R.L. - Hadfield, K.A. - Smit, N.J. - Mariani, S.D. - Beck, R.M.: BMC Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2019, Art. No. 207 - SCI ; SCOPUS

3

2017 Robin, N. - van Bakel, B.W.M. - Pacaud, J.-M. - Charbonnier, S.: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Vol. 15, No. 4, 2017, s. 257-273 - SCI ; SCOPUS2

4

2015 Luque, J.: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2014, s. 153-166 - SCI ; SCOPUS

5

2015 Klompmaker, A.A. - Boxshall, G.A.: Advances in Parasitology, Vol. 90, 2015, s. 233-289 - SCI ; SCOPUS

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

2023-2027: APVV 22-0523 Comparative taphonomy of micro- and macroinvertebrates: tracing the intensity of the taphonomically-active zone through time (principal investigator Adam Tomašových).

2

2021-2025: APVV-20-0079 Chronostratigraphic standards and sedimentary archives of global changes of biota and paleoenvironments of the Western Carpathians. (Principal investigators: Assoc. prof. Ján Soták, DrSc. and prof. RNDr. Daniela Reháková, CSc.).

3

2019-2022: VEGA2/0169/19 Preservation potential and effects of hypoxic events on benthic communities in the fossil record. (principal investigator: Adam Tomašových).

4

2018-2022: APVV 17-0555 Evaluating preservation potential of benthic responses to hypoxic and anoxic events in the fossil record. (principal investigator: Adam Tomašových).

5

2017-2021: APVV-16-0121 Geodynamics of the Alpine-Carpathian junction area constrained by dating of the Cenozoic evolutionary phases in the Vienna and Danube basins. (principal investigator Michal Kováč)

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
International Conference ESSE WECA 2008, organizer Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia December 2008
Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Mesozoic and Cenozoic Decapod Crustaceans, Krakow, Poland, 2013. A tribute to Pál Mihály Müller (Scripta Geologica 147), guest editor Naturalis Biodiversity Center October 2014
2nd Palaeontological Virtual Congress 2020, Scientific Committee Palaeontological Virtual Congress May 2020
3rd Palaeontological Virtual Congress 2021, Scientific Committee Palaeontological Virtual Congress December 2021
4th Palaeontological Virtual Congress 2023, Scientific Committee Palaeontological Virtual Congress May 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)
Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Wien, Austria 01. - 30. Sept. 2013 One-month research grant at the University of Vienna within the partnership
Geological-paleontological Department, Natural History Museum Vienna Burgring 7, A.1010 Wien, Austria 01. Oct. 2013 - 30. Sept. 2015 FWF Lise Meitner Position
Natural History Museum of Denmark Øster Voldgade 5 - 7, Copenhagen 1350 Denmark, The Netherlands Sept. 2014 (3 weeks) SYNTHESYS project
Natural History Museum London Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, GB SW7 5BD, United Kingdom Sept. 2015 (2 weeks) SYNTHESYS project
Muséum national d´Histoire Naturelle Paris 57 Rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France 01. - 31. July 2017 one-month research stay
Muséum national d´Histoire Naturelle Paris 57 Rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France 01. - 31. July 2018 one-month research stay
Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum Ludovika tér, Budapest 2016-2019 OTKA projekt (several shorter research stays)

IX. - Other relevant facts

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

Palaeontologia Electronica: Executive Editor

Geologica Carpathica: Handling Editor

Slovak geological society: member

Slovak arachnological society: member

Slovak zoological society: member

NOBIS (Network of Biological Systematics) Austria: member

WoRMS (World Register of Marine Species): Taxonomic editor (Callianassidae and Ctenochelidae)

AWARDS

2019 ESET Science Award, finalist (Exceptional young scientist in Slovakia under the age of 35)

2019 Commendation of Slovak Geological Society for popularization of Geosciences.

2012 Student Personality of Slovakia (Chemistry and Natural Sciences) Junior Chambers International – Slovakia

2012 Slovak Geological Society award for the best Geosciences publication (2009–2011) in category II (scientific works of young authors)

2011 Academic commendation of the Comenius University Chancellor

2010 Dean award for the PhD. students of Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University

2010 The Galicia Tectonic Group Award for 2010 for the best student´s oral presentation at the XIth International Conference of Young Geologists, Svätý Jur, Slovakia

2009 The 2nd prize for the best presentation at 10th Anniversary Conference of the Czech, Polish and Slovak Paleontologists, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.

Date of last update
2025-02-21