The Accreditation Commission, the advisory body of the Slovak government, had approved the project named „Identification of top research teams at the universities of the Slovak Republic“ in April 2 – 4, 2014. Based on the Commission’s call, the universities handed in 77 proposals, while the process of selection was running through several stages from October 2014. The working teams of the commission chose 44 teams based on the established criteria and statement of international experts, from which 37 were accepted and identified as top research teams of the Slovak universities. Two reserach teams of the Faculty of Science and one research team of the Faculty of Medicine of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice were placed among the top research teams of the Slovak universities.
Name of the top research team |
Abbreviation of the top research team |
Memebers |
University |
Quantum magnetism and Nanophysics |
QMAGNA |
Alexander Feher |
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, |
Research team of bioactive substances for biomedical applications |
Bioaktiv |
Peter Fedoročko |
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, |
Excellent team for the research of atherosclerosis |
EXTASY |
Ružena Tkáčová |
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, |