Karol Marhold - Curriculum Vitae#

EDUCATION

• 1992 PhD, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
  
• 1983 RNDr. (= MSc.), Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
  

CURRENT POSITION(S)

• 1983 - present Senior Scientist, Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
  
• 2001 - present Professor of Botany (Habilitation in 2001, Full Professorship 2009), Department of Botany, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
  

FELLOWSHIPS

• 2012, 2012 Visiting Professorship, Kyoto University, Japan (3 + 3 months)
  
• 1997 - 1998 Humboldt Fellowship, University of Osnabrück, Germany; University of Vienna, Austria
  
• 1992 - 1993 Leverhulme Fellowship, Department of Botany, University of Reading, Reading, U.K.
  
• 1990 - 1991 SOROS/FCO Scholarship, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.
  

SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS

• 1999 - 2025 PhD: 10 (11th about to finish)

RESEARCH

Successful principal investigator of projects of the Slovak and Czech grant agencies, participant in projects of the 5th, 6th, 7th EU Framework Programmes, Horizon 2000, and Horizon Europe.

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• 2015 - 2025 Vice-President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for Section 2, Life, Chemical, Medical, and Environmental Sciences & Member of the Scientific Council of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
  
• 2014 - 2015 Head of the Assembly of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
  
• 2015 - 2019 Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia
  
• 2023 - Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Science, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
  
• 2023 - Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Science, Matej Bell University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
  
• 2023 - 2024 Member of the Board of Supervisors, Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, Slovakia

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES (COMMUNITY SERVICE)

International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT), Secretary-General, CEO (2011-2023), member since 1991; Organization for the Phyto-Taxonomic Investigation of the Mediterranean Area, Member of the International Board (2001–), Member of the Executive Council (2013-), member since 1995; International Organization of Plant Biosystematists (IOPB), President-Elect (2004–2008), President (2009–2013), member since 1985 (in 2013 IOPB merged with IAPT); Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI) – National focal point for the Slovak Republic (2001–), member of the GTI co-ordination mechanism for Central and Eastern Europe (2006–); Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), person in charge of the national node for the Slovak Republic and member of the GBIF Governing Board (2001–); European Academies Science Advisory Council (2021–2025)

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

Plant Systematics and Evolution (Editor-in-Chief, 2014–); Folia Geobotanica (Editor-in-Chief, 1994–2010, Associate Editor, 2011–2013); Taxon (Member of the Editorial Board, 2006-2010 & Column editor 2006–);