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Name: Ferdinand DEVINSKY, professor, DSc.
Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Chemical Theory of Drugs, Head of Department, Kalinciakova 8, SK
– 832 32 Bratislava, Slovakia; Tel. +42 12 501 17 331; fax. +42 12 501 17 357; E-mail:
[email protected]
Former Rector of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia,
University Professor (medicinal chemistry)
Dipl. Ing. in organic chemistry
Personal data:
Born August 17, 1947, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, married, two sons
Education:
- Faculty of Chemical Technology of the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, organic
chemistry (1965-70), title: Ing.
Academic career:
1970
Dipl. Ing. (MS), chemistry, Slovak Technical University in Bratislava
1970-72 Research fellow at the Research Institute of Drugs, Bratislava,
1972 Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University, Bratislava
1981
PhD in organic chemistry, Comenius University in Bratislava
1985Research Project Director, Faculty of Pharmacy of Comenius University (FPhCU),
1989
Associate Professor in organic chemistry, Comenius University in Bratislava
1992Professor in medicinal chemistry, Comenius University in Bratislava
1993
DSc. in medicinal chemistry, Comenius University in Bratislava
1990Head of Department of Chemical Theory of Drugs (former Department of General,
Inorganic and Organic Chemistry) of FPhCU
1995-05 Director of Toxicological and Antidoping Centre of Comenius University
1990-97 Vice-Rector for Development of Comenius University in Bratislava
1997-03 Rector of Comenius University in Bratislava
International research stays:
- British Council Scholar, Chelsea Department of Pharmacy, King's College, London 19861987, 10 months
- Rosenstadt Professor, University of Toronto, Faculty of Pharmacy, 1992.
- Up to date many other short term visits in different countries of the world
International research awards:
1987
Honorary Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London, Univ. of London
1998
Honorary Doctor, City University, Seattle
1998
Award of Charles University Prague (650th anniversary of Ch.U.)
2000
Euroaward, etc.
Other international awards:
2003
Commendatore II, Republic of Italy State Award
International study stays oriented on HEI management:
1991
HEI management course, Washington and University of Missouri, USA
1994
Certificate in "Higher Education Management Programme", University of Oxford and
University of Warwick,
1996
Certificate in "Human Resource Planning for the Competitive Edge", Cornell
University, USA
Membership in international HEI organizations:
- EUA (European University Association, former CRE), member of the IEP Steering
committee (till 2009)
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CRE and EUA evaluation teams, member and chairman of the teams
Vice-President (2001 – 2002, 2003 – 2004) and President (2002 – 2003) of the Danube
Rectors Conference
- Member of the International Board of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee (till 2006)
- Chairman of the committee for external evaluation of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee
(2008)
Membership in Slovak HEI organizations:
- Former Vice-President of the Slovak Rectors Conference,
- Chairman of the Committee for Development and Financing of HEIs by the HE Council
Research:
Research on bioactive compounds and development of new drugs, relationships between their
structure, properties and biological activities
Membership in editorial boards of international scientific journals:
- Drug Metabolism and Drug Interactions, London, Great Britain
- Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, Olsztyn, Poland
Membership in Slovak scientific organizations:
- Slovak Chemical Society,
- Slovak Medical Society,
- Slovak Pharmaceutical Society.
Research Publications:
- more than 170 research papers in extenso; 92 patents, 3 monographs, etc.
Political career:
Member of the Slovak Parliament, 2002 –
Chairman of the parliamentary committee for Education, Science, Youth and Sport, Culture and
Media, 2002 – 2006
Chairman of the parliamentary committee for Education, Youth, Science and Sports 2006 2009
Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and the Committee for
Culture, Education and Science of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, 2002 –
2009
Others
Cofounder and Member of the Board of the Slovak Academic Ranking and Rating Agency
(ARRA)
Foreign Languages:
English, German, Hungarian
Bratislava, 31st January 2010
Ferdinand Devnsky