Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
RNDr. Milan Sýkora, PhD., MBA
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
Sýkora
I.2 - Name
Milan
I.3 - Degrees
RNDr., PhD., MBA
I.4 - Year of birth
1965
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Ilkovičova 6, 84215 Bratislava
I.7 - Position
Associate professor, Director, Laboratory for Advanced Materials
I.8 - E-mail address
sykoram@uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/30857
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
chémia
I.11 - ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1747-0709

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
Comenius University, Bratislava
II.b - Year
1990
II.c - Study field and programme
Inorganic Chemistry
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Marquette University, USA
II.b - Year
1997
II.c - Study field and programme
chemistry
II.4 - Associate professor
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
Associate professor, Director, Laboratory for Advanced Materials Prírodovedecká fakulta, UK v Bratislave 2024 - present
ERA Chair, visiting professor Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava 2019 - 2024
Technical Staff Member/Research team leader Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 2011-2018
Technical Staff Member/Sr. Manager Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 2009-2011
Technical Staff Member Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 2006-2009
Visiting scientist Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 2003-2006

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
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2002

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
Advanced inorganic chemistry chemistry I. Chemistry
Chemistry of nanomaterials chemistry I. Chemistry
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.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
2
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
0
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
5
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
1
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
1
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
1
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
Perspektívy chémie Chemistry, Biochemistry I. Chemistry
Vybrané kapitoly z materiálovej chémie 2 Inorganic Chemistry III. Chemistry

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
92
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
44
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
65
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
15
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
5870
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
2170
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
4400
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
1660
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
50
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
12
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

ADC, Galland, Ch.; Ghosh, Y.; Steinbrueck, A.; Sykora, M.; Hollingsworth, J. A.; Klimov, V. I.; Htoon, H. Two types of luminescence blinking revealed by spectroelectrochemistry of single quantum dots. Nature, 2011, 479, 203-207. (WOS citations: 657)

2

ADC, Sykora, M.; Kincaid, J. R. Photochemical energy storage in a spatially organized zeolite-based photoredox system. Nature, 1997, 387, 162-164. (WOS citations: 106) 

3

ADC, Sykora, M.; Petruska, M. A.; Alstrum-Acevedo, J.; Bezel, I.; Meyer, T. J.; Klimov, V. I. Photoinduced charge transfer between CdSe nanocrystal quantum dots and Ru-polypyridine complexes.J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 9984-5. (WOS citations: 213) 

4

ADC, Sykora, M.; Koposov, A. Y.; McGuire, J. A.; Schulze, R. K.; Tretiak, O.; Pietryga, J. M.; Klimov, V. I. Effect of Air Exposure on Surface Properties, Electronic Structure, and Carrier Relaxation in PbSe Nanocrystals. ACS Nano, 2010, 4, 2021-2034. (WOS citations: 225)

5

ADC, Fuke, N.; Hoch, L. B.; Koposov, A. Y.; Manner, V. W.; Werder, D. J.; Fukui, A.; Koide, N.; Katayama, H.; Sykora, M. CdSe Quantum-Dot-Sensitized Solar Cell with ca. 100% Internal Quantum Efficiency. ACS Nano. 2010, 4, 6377-6386. (WOS citations: 115)

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

ADC, Ji, Z.; Dervishi, E.; Doorn, S. K.; Sykora, M. Size-Dependent Electronic Properties of Strongly Confined Graphene Quantum Dots.J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2019, 10, 5, 953–959. (WOS citations: 46)

2

ADC, Dervishi, E.; Ji, Z.; Htoon, H.; Sykora, M.; Doorn, S. K. Raman spectroscopy of bottom-up synthesized graphene quantum dots: size and structure dependence. Nanoscale, 2019,11, 16571-16581. (WOS citations: 203)

3

ADC, Chang, C-C.; Kort-Kamp, W.; Nogan, J.; Luk, T. S.; Azad, A. K.; Taylor, A. J.; Dalvit, D.; Sykora, M.; Chen, H-T. High-Temperature Refractory Metasurfaces for Solar Thermophotovoltaic Energy Harvesting. Nano Lett. 2018, 18, 12, 7665–7673. (WOS citations: 139)

4

ADC, Krishnamurthy, S.; Singh, A.; Hu, Z.; Blake, A., V.; Kim, Y.; Singh, A.; Dolgopolova, E. A.; Williams, D. J.; Piryatinski, A.; Malko, A., V.; Htoon, H.;Sykora, M.; Hollingsworth, J. A., PbS/CdS Quantum Dot Room-Temperature Single-Emitter Spectroscopy Reaches the Telecom O and S Bands via an Engineered Stability. ACS Nano 2021, 15, 575–587. (WOS citations: 26)

5

ADC, R. Bystrický, S. K. Tiwari, P. Hutár, L. Vančo, M. Sýkora, Synthesis of Sulfide Perovskites by Sulfurization with Boron Sulfides. Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 18823–18827. (WOS citations: 13)

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

ADC, Galland, Ch.; Ghosh, Y.; Steinbrueck, A.; Sykora, M.; Hollingsworth, J. A.; Klimov, V. I.; Htoon, H. Two types of luminescence blinking revealed by spectroelectrochemistry of single quantum dots. Nature 2011, 479, 203-207. (WOS citations: 657)

[o1] Kim, JY.; Voznyy, O.; Zhitomirsky, D.; Sargent, EH. - In: Advanced Materials, Vol. 25, No. 36, 2013 ; s. 4986-5010 ; 25th Anniversary Article: Colloidal Quantum Dot Materials and Devices: A Quarter-Century of Advances.

2

ADC, Sykora, M.; Kincaid, J. R. Photochemical energy storage in a spatially organized zeolite-based photoredox system. Nature, 1997, 387, 162-164. (WOS ohlasy: 104)

[o1] Bein, T. - In: MRS Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 10, 2005; s. 713-720; Zeolitic host-guest interactions and building blocks for the self-assembly of complex materials.

3

ADC, Sykora, M.; Petruska, M. A.; Alstrum-Acevedo, J.; Bezel, I.; Meyer, T. J.; Klimov, V. I. Photoinduced charge transfer between CdSe nanocrystal quantum dots and Ru-polypyridine complexes.J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 9984-5. (WOS citations: 213)

[o1] Kamat, P. V.; - In: J. Phys. Chem. C, Vol. 11, No. 7, 2007 ; s. 2834-2860; Meeting the energy demand: Nanostructure Architectures for Energy Conversion.

4

ADC, Sykora, M.; Koposov, A. Y.; McGuire, J. A.; Schulze, R. K.; Tretiak, O.; Pietryga, J. M.; Klimov, V. I. Effect of Air Exposure on Surface Properties, Electronic Structure, and Carrier Relaxation in PbSe Nanocrystals. ACS Nano, 2010, 4, 2021-2034. (WOS citations: 225)

[o1] Kramer, I. J.; Sargent, EH. - In: Chem. Rev. Vol. 14, No. 1, 2014 ; s. 863-882; The Architecture of Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cells: Materials to Devices

5

ADC, Fuke, N.; Hoch, L. B.; Koposov, A. Y.; Manner, V. W.; Werder, D. J.; Fukui, A.; Koide, N.; Katayama, H.; Sykora, M. CdSe Quantum-Dot-Sensitized Solar Cell with ca. 100% Internal Quantum Efficiency. ACS Nano. 2010, 4, 6377-6386. (WOS citations: 115)

[o1] Jun, H. K.; Careem, M. A.; Arof, A. K. - In: Renew. Sus. En. Rev. Vol. 22, 2013 ; s. 148-167; Quantum dot-sensitized solar cells-perspective and recent developments: A review of Cd chalcogenide quantum dots as sensitizers

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

Director/ERA Chair, European Commission, Horizon 2020, ERA Chairs programme, project 810701, Establishing Laboratory of Advanced Materials at the Comenius University — LAMatCU, (2018-2024)

2

Principal Investigator: APVV 0410-19; Ternary chalcogenide semiconductors with narrow bandgap (2020-2024)

3

Principal Investigator: APVV 0300-23; Charging and Charge Transport in Quantum Confined Nanocrystals (2024-2028)

4

Principal Investigator: VEGA 1/0892/21; 2D nanomaterials for optoelectronics prepared by “bottom-up” chemical methods. (2021-2024)

5

Co-investigator: APVV 0202-23; Ternary chalcogenide perovskites for photovoltaics (2024-2028)

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

IX. - Other relevant facts

IX.a - If relevant, other activities related to higher education or research/artistic/other activities are mentioned
  • Chair/Organizer: 2D Materials workshop, International workshop, June 9-10, 2023, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • Chair/Organizer: “Dynamic processes Probing Dynamic Processes in Soft Materials Using Advanced Light Sources”, International workshop, July 25-27, 2016, Santa Fe, NM
  • Symposium Chair/Organizer: “Nanomaterials for PV Applications”, 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007
Date of last update
2024-11-06