I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname

Vitushkina

I.2 - Name

Svitlana

I.3 - Degrees

doc., CSc.

I.4 - Year of birth

1978

I.5 - Name of the workplace

Department of Inorganic Chemistry

I.6 - Address of the workplace

Ilkovičova 6, Mlynská dolina 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia

I.7 - Position

associate professor

I.8 - E-mail address

svitlana.vitushkina@uniba.sk

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

https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/86248?from=suggestion&from_category=regzam&keyword=vitu

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

Chemistry

I.11 - ORCID iD

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6765-4859

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

V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

II.b - Year

2001

II.c - Study field and programme

Chemistry

II.3 - Third degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Ukrainian State Chemical Technology University

II.b - Year

2011

II.c - Study field and programme

Inorganic Chemistry

II.4 - Associate professor

II.a - Name of the university or institution

V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

II.b - Year

2019

II.c - Study field and programme

Associate Professor of the Department of Chemistry

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	Comenius University Bratislava	1.12.2025-30.11.2028
Associate professor at a university	V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University	2003 - up to now

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
Coordination chemistry and stereochemistry	Inorganic chemistry	II.	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.4.2 - Number of defended theses

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
Basics of Chemistry (1)	Chemistry (conversion program)	I.	Chemistry
Basics of Chemistry (2)	Chemistry (conversion program)	I.	Chemistry
Selected chapters on coordination chemistry and stereochemistry	Chemistry, Biochemistry	I.	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

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

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

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

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

VI.1.a - Overall

129

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

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

VI.1.a - Overall

129

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level

VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs

S. Vitushkina, I. Potočňák, O. Bukrynov, L. Váhovská, M. Holub, E. Čižmár, Penta- and Hexacoordinated Copper(II) Complexes with Azido and 4-amino-3,5-di-2-pyridyl-4H-1,2,4-triazole ligands with Field-induced Slow Magnetic Relaxation. ChemistryOpen — 2025 — Volume 14, Issue 10 — e202500109 (1 of 10), 10.1002/open.202500109.

Potočňák Ivan; Bukrynov Oleksandr; Kliuikov Andrii; Holub Mariia; Vitushkina Svitlana; Samoľová Erika; Čižmár Erik; Váhovská Lucia. Influence of the phonon-bottleneck effect and low-energy vibrational modes on the slow spin-phonon relaxation in Kramers-ions-based Cu(ii) and Co(ii) complexes with 4-amino-3,5-bis-(pyridin-2-yl)-1,2,4-triazole and dicyanamide. Dalton Transactions — 2024 — Volume 53, Issue 16 —Pages 6950 – 6964. 10.1039/d4dt00219a.

L. Váhovská, O. Bukrynov, I. Potočňák, E. Čižmár, A. Kliuikov, S. Vitushkina, M. Dušek, R. Herchel. New Cobalt(II) Field-Induced Single-Molecule Magnet and the First Example of a Cobalt(III) Complex with Tridentate Binding of a Deprotonated 4-Amino-3,5-bis(pyridin-2-yl)-1,2,4-Triazole Ligand. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry—2019 —2019(2), pp. 250-261. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990682c/2019/2019/2

R. Herchel,L. Váhovská, I. Potočňák,S. Vitushkina,and Z. Trávníček. Effect of linear and non-linear pseudohalides on the structural and magnetic properties of Co(II) hexacoordinate single-molecule magnets. Dalton Trans. — 2018 — V. 47— p. 1498–1512. 10.1039/c7dt04256f

V.A. Starodub, S.V. Vitushkina, D. Kamenskyi, A.G. Anders, V.O. Cheranovskii, H. Schmidt, D. Steinborn, I.Potočňák, M. Kajňaková, A. Radváková, A. Feher Peculiarities of Crystal Structures and Magnetic Properties of Cu(II) and Ni(II) Mixed-ligand Complexes on the 1,3-Dithiole-2-Thione-4,5-Dithiolate Basis. Journal of physics and chemistry of solid. Journal of physics and chemistry of solids — 2012 —73, Is. 2 —p. 350-356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2011.10.001

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

Svitlana Vitushkina, Ivan Potočňák, Oleksandr Bukrynov, Erik Čižmár, Erika Samoľová, Lucia Váhovská, From Cu(I) chain to Cu(II) dimers: structural diversity and magnetic behavior in selected Cu–2,2′-biquinoline–dicyanamide complexes. Polyhedron — 2025 — Volume 282 — 117785. 10.1016/j.poly.2025.117785

A. Kliuikov, O. Bukrynov, E. Čižmár, L. Váhovská, S. Vitushkina, E. Samoľová, I. Potočňák. Syntheses, structures and magnetic properties of two isostructural dicyanamide-bridged 2D polymers. New Journal of Chemistry — 2021 — 45(16), pp. 7117-7128. 10.1039/d1nj00726b

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

Palacios, M.A., Díaz-Ortega, I.F., Colacio, E., Ozerov, M., Krzystek, J. Tuning magnetic anisotropy by the π-bonding features of the axial ligands and the electronic effects of gold(i) atoms in 2D {Co(L)2[Au(CN)2]2}: Nmetal-organic frameworks with field-induced single-ion magnet behaviour. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 2020, 7(23), pp. 4611–4630 10.1039/d0qi00996b.

Šagátová, Alexandra; Nemec, Ivan; Moncoľ J.; Herchel, Radovan; Šebesta, Radovan; Kisszékelyi, Péter; Ďurina, Lukáš; Šalitroš, Ivan. Magnetically bistable Co(II) and Fe(II) complexes featuring pentyl-decorated pyridyl-benzimidazole ligands: role of isomerism and chirality. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 2025, 12(24), pp. 8173–8186.

Canton, S.E., Biednov, M., Lima, F.A., Gosztola, D.J., Retegan, M. Ultrafast Jahn-Teller Photoswitching in Cobalt Single-Ion Magnets. Advanced Science, 2023, 10(21), 2206880 0.1002/advs.202206880.

Havlíček, L., Herchel, R., Nemec, I., Neugebauer, P. Weak antiferromagnetic interaction in Cu (II) complex with semi-coordination exchange pathway. Polyhedron, 2022, 223, 115962. 10.1016/j.poly.2022.115962.

Esteves, C., Palma, S.I.C.J., Costa, H.M.A., Alves, V., Roque, A.C.A. Tackling Humidity with Designer Ionic Liquid-Based Gas Sensing Soft Materials. Advanced Materials, 2022, 34(8), 2107205. 10.1002/adma.202107205.

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

Recovery and Resilience Plan (POO), No. 09103-03-V01-00051, Vitushkina S. (R3) Scholarships for excellent researchers threatened by the military conflict in Ukraine, from 1.9.2022 to 31.8.2025.

KEGA 2024: "Innovation and internationalization of selected subjects of the Inorganic Chemistry study program", № 013UPJŠ-4/2024, researcher, from 1.1.2024 to 31.12.2026.

VEGA: 1/0574/26 "Aminoacid complexes of transition metals - the relationship between chirality and biological properties", researcher, from 1.1.2026.

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

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)
Univerzita P. J. Šafárika v Košiciach, Slovak Republic	Košice, Slovak Republic	01/09/2008 – 01/07/2009	Visegrad scholarship
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany	Halle (Saale), Germany	01/02/2009 – 01/03/2009	Scholarship of the Martin- Luther-University Halle- Wittenberg
Univerzita P. J. Šafárika v Košiciach, Slovak Republic	Košice, Slovak Republic	19/09/2011 – 17/12/2011	National Scholarship Program SR, SAIA, n. o.
Univerzita P. J. Šafárika v Košiciach, Slovak Republic	Košice, Slovak Republic	01/04/2014 – 29/06/2014	National Scholarship Program SR, SAIA, n. o.
Univerzita P. J. Šafárika v Košiciach, Slovak Republic	Košice, Slovak Republic	02/03/2015 – 30/05/2015	National Scholarship Program SR, SAIA, n. o.
Univerzita P. J. Šafárika v Košiciach, Slovak Republic	Košice, Slovak Republic	02/03/2020 – 31/05/2020	National Scholarship Program SR, SAIA, n. o.

IX. - Other relevant facts

Date of last update

2026-08-13

Name and surname:	doc. Svitlana Vitushkina, CSc.
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