Our Team

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT

I graduated from Slovak Technical University in May 1997 with a Master of Science Degree. My major was organic chemistry. I have also accumulated tree years of PhD. study experience in organic chemistry research. This experience gave me the good support and starting points to the next professional carrier in environmental topics. Several international positions in the prestigious organizations helped me to be oriented in the current environmental tasks.

My professional life is oriented on both domestic and international activities. I worked on developing the national system for reporting of environmental requirements in air pollution and climate change in Slovakia in 2007 and since that time, I do management of national greenhouse gas emissions on national and international level. In addition, I am chairing the Scientific Advisor Board of the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute where I am employed since 2003. Since the year 2020, I am a member of the UN FCCC body – Consultative Group of Experts as one of 3 European experts.

BIOFUELS EXPERT AND QUALITY MANAGER (on maternity leave)

Lenka Zetochová graduated in Environmental planning and management at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava. At the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, she deals with inventories of emissions and sustainability of biofuels and bioliquids. She completed several trainings in the quality management, professional training within the project Reform of the statistical data collection and processing in public administration. She participates in international conferences, including conferences during the Slovak Presidency of the Council of Europe and biofuels. She is an active auditor of national reports and biennial reports on climate change and Lenka is also coordinator of the National System for Biofuels and Bioliquids.

BIOFUELS EXPERT AND QUALITY MANAGER

Bc. Alexandra Nadžadyová graduated in physical geography and geoinformatics, while she is completing her master studies in physical geography and geoecology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Charles University in Prague. Specifically, she is finishing her master thesis focusing on the glacial modifications of erosional landforms in the High Tatras. At the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, her main task is the management and control of the information system for biofuels and bioliquids in Slovakia. One of her other important tasks is working with the upcoming European database for biofuels. She also temporarily represents the position of quality manager of the Department of Emissions and Biofuels and is a member of the REFUREC club, which mainly groups the countries of the European Union and solves current topics in the field of renewable fuels.

AIR POLLUTANTS INVENTORY COORDINATOR (on maternity leave)

Zuzana Jonáček graduated in Ecology and Biodiversity Protection at the Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Studies at the Technical University in Zvolen. At SHMI, she coordinates the process of inventory preparation of pollutant emissions and at the same time works as an expert on emissions from waste management and industry. She works in several international and European working groups for air quality, black carbon inventory and short-lived climate forcers. She is actively a member of the technical team for the review of emission inventories submitted under the CLRTAP Convention. She is currently coordinating the Eurostat grant project Improvement of the Allocation of Transport Emissions to Environmental Air Emissions Accounts and the Harmonization of AEA and PEFA Modules under the EUROSTAT Regulation no. 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts.

AIR POLLUTANTS INVENTORY COORDINATOR

Mgr. Petra Kršáková graduated in Ecology and Environmental Protection at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Comenius University in Bratislava. At the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, she coordinates the process of inventory preparation of pollutant emissions and at the same time works as an expert on emissions from waste management.

EXPERT FOR AGRICULTURAL EMISSIONS (on maternity leave)

Dr. Kristína Tonhauzer studied Environmental engineering at the Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences at the Technical University in Zvolen. She completed her doctoral studies at the Faculty of European Studies and Regional Development in the field of Environmental Management at the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra. At Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute. She is responsible for inventory preparation of emissions and emission projections from the agriculture and waste sectors. During her practice, she is actively engaged in scientific work, especially the description of the negative effects of agricultural activity on the environment. She is a member of the working group on issues related to agriculture, forests, and land use under the European Commission. She was participating in the preparation of national strategic documents.

EXPERT FOR AGRICULTURAL EMISSIONS

Mgr. Patricia Navrátilová, PhD., graduated in geology from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Comenius University in Bratislava and completed her doctoral studies at the Department of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. At the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMÚ), she coordinates research and development activities in the field of agricultural emissions, oversees data collection and verification in selected district databases of the National Emission Information System (NEIS), and collaborates on the NEIS II project.

EXPERT FOR TRANSPORT EMISSIONS

Dr. Ján Horváth, graduated in ecology from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Comenius University in Bratislava and earned his PhD at the Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Science at the Technical University of Zvolen. He currently works at the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, specializing in inventorying and projecting emissions from transportation, as well as analyzing fugitive emissions.

From 2018 to 2020, he was a member of the Expert Panel for the Emission Factor Database under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Since 2022, he has served as Alternate National Focal Point for the IPCC. Since 2024, he has been an expert for General Guidance and Cross-Cutting Issues and the Energy Sector under the Paris Agreement, contributing to the assessment of Biennial Transparency Reports and National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.

He is currently a member of the IG SCIENCE working group under DG CLIMA (EU) and EG Mobility Systems (EEA), actively participates in international conferences, and contributes to expert discussions on climate change. In 2020, he completed a professional internship at EMISIA, which is part of the Laboratory for Applied Thermodynamics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

EXPERT FOR EMISSION PROJECTIONS

Marcel Zemko studied geoinformatics and cartography at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava. At the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute he coordinates the preparation of greenhouse gases and air pollution emission projections and also works as an expert on emissions from the household sector. He completed several trainings in the field of emission modelling, was part of a project to help member states with emission inventories, and participated on international conferences in the field of climate change, including a conference during the Slovak Presidency of the European Councile. Represents Slovakia in international working groups. He works on the development of a national system for projections, policies and measures.

EXPERT FOR EMISSION PROJECTIONS

Jozef Orečný graduated in Environmental management at the Faculty of European study and regional development at the Slovak agricultural university in Nitra. At SHMI, he works on projections of emissions from energy and industry in TIMES model. He is also a member of the national system for biofuels and bioliquids as a database administrator. Several trainings in VBA or Python programming, as well as training for environmental audit are milestones, which are worth mentioning too. He is actively working on the development of a national system for projections, policies and measures. He also works on the issue of determining the energy needs of households in Slovakia.

EXPERT FOR EMISSION PROJECTIONS

Mgr. Roman Mach studied environmental physics, renewable energy sources, meteorology and climatology at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of the Comenius University in Bratislava. At the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, he works on modeling emissions projections from energy and industry in the TIMES model and evaluating emissions from the household sector as part of the upcoming project from the operational program Environment - EMISSIONS.

EXPERT FOR INDUSTRY EMISSIONS (on maternity leave)

Ivana Bellusova graduated in environmental engineering at the Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Studies at the Technical University in Zvolen. She has been working at SHMÚ since 2014. During this tenure, she coordinated the emissions inventory of air pollutants, along the work as an expert in the field of energy and industry and also with the national inventory system NEIS. She was a member of international and European working groups in the field of air quality. She led the first Eurostat grant project: Quality Improvements of Air Emissions Accounts and Extension of Provided Time Series under the auspices of the Regulation of the EP and EU Council no. 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts. Her current work is focused solely on the emission inventory preparation within the industry sector.

NEIS DATABASE EXPERT

Monika Jalšovská graduated in landscape engineering at the Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering at Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra. She has been working at the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute since 2009 in the field of the National Emission Information System (NEIS). She is focused mainly on the management of NEIS technical agenda, data analysis and processing, technical and methodological support for users of the system. She also colaborates in keeping the National PRTR (Pollutant Release and Transfer Register) for air releases. She has taken training in the Transact-SQL programming language, participates in conferences on air protection legislation and is a member of the expert group for the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR).

NEIS DATABASE EXPERT

Dr. Michaela Câmpian finished her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Science of Comenius University in Bratislava in 2011, Department of Organic Chemistry. She joined the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute in 2019. The main task is the analysis and processing of data in NEIS database (National Emission Information System). The scope of her work is also an inventory of pollutant emissions in energy sector.

EXTERNAL CO-OPERATING EXPERTS

Our team is in cooperation with the skilled experienced experts for GHG emissions and air pollutants from focused areas. Experts are nominees of the Ministry of the Environment and are actively supporting environmental tasks in climate change and air protection in Slovakia since decades. 

Introducing:

• Ass. Prof. Juraj Labovský – expert for energy
• Prof. Vladimír Danielik – expert for industry
• Ján Judák – expert for fugitive emissions from fuels
• Dr. Jiří Balajka – expert for emission projections – senior consultant
• Marek Hrabčák – expert for solid waste disposal sites
• Prof. Igor Bodík – expert for wastewater
• Dr. Tibor Priwitzer – expert forest inventory
• Dr. Ivan Barka – expert for GIS and land-use matrix
• Dr. Michal Sviček – expert for cropland and wetlands
• Dr. Štefan Pollák – expert for pasture
• Dr. Pavel Pavlenda – expert for forest inventory
• Dr. Zuzana Palkovičová – expert for animal production
• Dr. Ondrej Pastierik – expert for animal production