Karol Marhold#
© ESET Science Award, Linda Kisková Bohušová
| Membership Number: | 7498 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SLOVAKIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://cbrb.sav.sk/usr/Karol/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7658-0844 |
| Publication Link: | https://cbrb.sav.sk/en/our-research/employees/publications/?user_no=32 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - 2025 Vice-President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for Section 2, Life, Chemical, Medical, and Environmental Sciences
- 2001 Department of Botany, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (currently Professor of Botany)
- 1983 Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic (currently senior researcher)
- 1997 - 1998 Humboldt Fellowship, University of Osnabrück, Germany; University of Vienna, Austria, research fellow
- 1992 - 1993 Leverhulme Fellowship, Department of Botany, University of Reading, Reading, England, postdoc
- 1990 - 1991 SOROS/FCO Scholarship, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, independent researcher
Fields of Scholarship
- Polyploidy research
- Plant nomenclature
- Plant taxonomy
- Plant biogeography
- Biodiversity informatics
- Plant phylogeny
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Medal of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for support of science
- 2021 Elected Member of The Learned Society of Slovakia (regular member)
- 2019 Honorary plaque of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for achievements in biological sciences
- 2014 - 2015 Head of the Assembly of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
- 2013 Honorary medal on the occasion of 60th anniversary of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
