Rector

Dr. h. c. prof. h. c. prof. Dr. Ing. Oliver Moravčík

Oliver Moravčík has been the STU Vice-Rector for Strategic Projects and Development since 2015. On 26 April 2021, the STU Academic Senate entrusted him with the position of the STU Rector. Prior to that, he served as a vice dean and later Dean of STU MTF (2006-2014). From 1994 to 1998 he was Chair of the Academic Senate. He was also Director of the Advanced Technologies Research Institute at the STU MTF Cambo University Science Park. Since 1976, he has been working as a university teacher. Pedagogical activity of Prof. Moravčík is focused on lecturing in the field of automation, applied informatics and economics and control. He has successfully supervised nine Bachelor, 68 Master and four Doctoral theses. He has published more than 160 scientific and professional publications and articles at home and abroad in numerous books, journals and conference proceedings. Since 1992, he has been a member of the STU Scientific Board, a member of the Scientific Boards of the STU faculties (MTF and FIIT), as well as the Scientific Boards of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Žilina and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Košice since 1996.

His activities in obtaining scientific and educational grants from the European Union's Structural Funds (up to now about EUR 90 million) have been particularly successful. They resulted in the implementation of CAMBO, the STU Science Park located in Trnava. The USP focuses on the materials research and analysis using ion technologies, as well as the automation and informatisation of technological processes.

He has been the principal investigator and researcher in several dozens of domestic and international research and applied research projects, including the PHARE Tempus I and II, FP7 and the NATO projects, e.g.:

•     PROMAN W – Projekt management system fϋr wissenschaftliche Projekte, a joint project of IFW Dresden, FZD Dresden-Rossendorf and STU MTF, coordinator of software design, 1996-99,
•     PTP I / II No. 1054 - Partnership for tomorrow - Association of Canadian Universities, University of Alberta / Edmonton, Quality Assurance System in Higher Education, Principal Investigator of the project 2002 - 2004
•     Diversity - Improving the Gender Diversity Management in Materials Research Institutions, FP7, Principal Investigator of the Slovak Participants, 2009-2011;
•     National project "Universities as engines of the of the knowledge society development ";
•     TEAMING, EU grant of H2020 Call, 2015.

The most important scientific invited lectures comprise: "Evaluationsverfahren in Softwaretechnik", "Modeling of Software Systems Using UML", Ilmenau Technical University, Biomedizinische Technik und Informatik Institute, Germany, 2005 and 2006; "UML in Software Design", Forschungszentrum Dresden Rossendorf, 2007; "LRKO Monitoring System", University of Zagreb, Faculty of Informatics, Croatia, 2007.

Personality Awards of Prof. Moravčík:

• 28/01/2013 - "Doctor honoris causa - Dr.h.c", awarded by the Scientific Council of the Kalashnikov State Technical University in Izhevsk, Russian Federation,    
• 06/07/2013 - Professor Collegii honoris causa, granted by the Rector of the University of Kecskemet, Hungary
•  25/03/2013 - Grand Medal of St. Gorazd, awarded by the Minister of Education of the Slovak Republic
•  20/01/2013 - Commemorative Letter of the Tree of Knowledge, granted by the STU Rector
•  2010 – Leibniz Medal, awarded by the Leibniz Research Foundation, Federal Republic of Germany