Jan Tkac
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Biography
Jan Tkac received his Ph.D. degree in biotechnology at the Slovak University of Technology (Bratislava, Slovakia) in 2000. He received his postdoctoral appointment at the Linkoping University (2001-2003), Lund University (2003-2006) and Oxford University (2006-2008). Currently, he works at the Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. He was/is a recipient of an Individual Marie Curie Fellowship (2003) and an ERC Starting grant (2012). His main research activities cover a microarray platform of detection of glycoproteins by lectins with the aid of nanotechnology. He has published 80+ scientific articles, reviews, and 4 book chapters having 1000+ citations.