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doc. RNDr. Andrej Mock, PhD.   SK

Email:
andrej.mock@upjs.sk
Homepage:
https://www.upjs.sk/PF/zamestnanec/andrej.mock
Faculty:
PF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science
Department:
ÚBEV - Institute of Biology and Ecology
Office:
RB3O325
Phone:
+421 55 234 1177
Faculty:
PF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science
Department:
ÚBEV - Institute of Biology and Ecology
Office:
RB3O325
Phone:
+421 55 234 1177
ORCID ID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6541-9633

Higher education and further qualification growth
First degree of higher education:
Comenius University in Bratislava, 1990, General biology
Second degree of higher education:
Comenius University Bratislava, 1992, Animal physiology and etology
Third degree of higher education:
Comenius University Bratislava, 2004, Zoology, entomology
Associate professor:
Comenius University Bratislava, 2021, Zoology

Research /art/ teacher profile

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Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
Study programme: Bb-Biology, study field: 3rd Biology, 1st degree degree
Profile courses
ÚBEV/PMZ/10 Comparative animal morphology - Bb - Biology, Vb - General ecology of individual and communities, BIb - Biology - Informatics, BGb - Biology - Geography, BCHb - Biology - Chemistry, BPsb - Biology - Psychology, FBb - Physics - Biology, MBb - Mathematics - Biology, SjBb - Slovak language - Biology, BASBb - British and American studies - biology, Batchelor degree
Selected publications

Haľková-Valkay, B. Tajovský, K., Grego, J., Žurovcová, M., 2022: Geoglomeris subterranea (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae), the first morphologically non-specialized semiaquatic glomerid millipede? Invertebrate Biology, 141 (2): e12376 https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12376

Mammola, S., Cardoso, P. J. S., Angyal, D., Balázs, G., Blick, T., Brustel, H., Carter, J., Čurčić, S., Danflous, S., Dányi, L., Déjean, S., Deltshev, Ch., Elverici, M., Fernández, J., Gasparo, G., Komnenov, M., Komposch, Ch., Kováč, Ľ., Kunt, K.N., Mock, A., Moldovan, O.T., Naumova, N., Pavlek, M., Prieto, C.E., Ribera, C., Rozwałka, R., Růžička, V., Vargovitsh, R.S., Zaenker, S., Isaia, M., 2019: Local- versus broad-scale environmental drivers of continental beta-diversity patterns in subterranean spider communities across Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological sciences 286, art. no. 201915, s. 1-9.

Haľková B, Tuf IH, Tajovský K, Mock A., 2020: Subterranean biodiversity and depth distribution of myriapods in forested scree slopes of Central Europe. Zookeys;930:117-137.


Haľková B, Drabová M, Mock A., 2021: An annotated checklist of millipede fauna from Slovakia, with ecological and biogeographic characteristics. Biodiversity Data Journal; 9:e71495.

Véle, A., Vélová, L., Plewa, R., Tuf, I.H., Mikovcová, A., Brestovanská, T., Rada, P., Mock, A., Horák, J., 2023: From leaf litter to crowns: Response of animal biodiversity to native and non-native oak vegetation. Forest Ecology and Management 534:120856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.120856

Selected projects


APVV-21-0379–Functional characteristics of terrestrial arthropods on epigeic-hypogeic gradient of cave entrances (principal investigator)




VEGA 1/0346/18 Relic forms oaf arthropods (Arthropoda) in the Western Carpathians - morphology, ecology and phylogeny (principal investigator)

EFFUSE - Environment for the Future by Scientific Education (HUSKROUA 1901/6.1/0075), cross-boarder project (The Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine ENI CBC Programme 2014-2020) (principal investigator)

VEGA 1/0438/22 (Slovak Scientifc Grant Agency): “Functional importance of the cave entrances as a transition zone for terrestrial arthropod communities (Arthropoda)” (principal investigator)

International mobilities and visits
Institute of Soil Biology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Sádkách 7. České Budějovice, Czech Republic, 1.-14.12.2019, Erasmus+
Department of ecology and environmentalistics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Šlechtitelů 241/27 783 71 Olomouc - Holice, CZ, 6.-18.5.2019, Erasmus+
Laboratory of electrone microscopy, Biological Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská ul., České Budějovice, CZ, 23.-27.3.2015, grant SOFOS, course for using of SEM microscopy "Using of HR-SEM at the study oftaxonomy and phylogeny of selected groups of arthropods".
Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva ul. 101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, May (2 weeks) and October (2 weeks) in 2014, grant SOFOS
Natural History Museum, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ 19000 Praha - Horní Počernice, ČR, 11.-18.3.2022, Erasmus+

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