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doc. RNDr. Rudolf Gális, PhD.   SK

Email:
 rudolf.galis@upjs.sk
Homepage:
 https://www.upjs.sk/PF/zamestnanec/rudolf.galis/
Faculty:
PF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science
Department:
ÚFV - Institute of Physics
Office:
 SA1O38
Phone:
 +421 55 234 2241
Faculty:
PF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science
Department:
ÚFV - Institute of Physics
Office:
 SA1O38
Phone:
 +421 55 234 2241
ORCID ID:
 0000-0003-4299-6419
He has been interested in astronomy since childhood. He studied astrophysics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Bratislava and completed the doctoral studies at the Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Tatranská Lomnica. In 2007-09 he completed the postdoctoral stay at the ISDC Data Centre for Astrophysics, Astronomical Observatory of the University of Geneva. For more than twenty years he has been working at the Faculty of Science, P. J. Šafárik University in Košice, where he is engaged in active research in the field of interacting binary stars with a focus on mass transfer and other physical mechanisms causing the activity of these systems. He lectures a wide range of topics from the basics of astronomy and astrophysics through the structure and evolution of stars and stellar atmospheres to cosmology. He is also actively involved in the astronomical education of young people and outreach activities for the general public.
Higher education and further qualification growth
Second degree of higher education:
Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, 1996, Physics
Third degree of higher education:
Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, 2001, Astrophysics
Associate professor:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science, 2014, Physics

Research /art/ teacher profile

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Study programme: Fb, Physics, Person responsible for lecturing the profile subject, Member of the Study Program Board, study field: Physics, bachelor degree
Study programme: Fm, Physics, Person responsible for lecturing the profile subject, Member of the Study Program Board, study field: Physics, master degree
Study programme: TFd, Fde, FdAj, Physics, Person responsible for lecturing the profile subject, Member of the Study Program Board, study field: Physics, doctoral degree
Profile courses
ÚFV/ZAAF/12 Introduction to Astrophysics - Physics (Fb), bachelor degree
ÚFV/TAF1/13 Theoretical astrophysics I - Physics (Fm), master degree
ÚFV/TAF2/13 Theoretical astrophysics II - Physics (Fm), magisterský degree
ÚFV/ASTF/15 Astrophysics - Physics (TFd, Fde, FdAj), doctoral degree
ÚFV/SPKD/15 Spectroscopy - Physics (TFd, Fde, FdAj), doctoral degree
Selected publications

First release of the New Online Database of Symbiotic Variables, Jaroslav Merc, Rudolf Gális, Marek Wolf, Research Notes of the AAS, ISSN 2515-5172, Roč. 3, č. 2 (2019), s. 28-29, online, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab0429, Počet ohlasov: 17

New online database of symbiotic variables: Symbiotics in X-rays, Jaroslav Merc, Rudolf Gális, Marek Wolf, Astronomische Nachrichten, ISSN 0004-6337, Roč. 340, č. 7 (2019), s. 598-606, DOI 10.1002/asna.201913662, IF (2019): 1.064, Q:4, Počet ohlasov: 6

The nature of the symbiotic candidate 2MASS J07363415+6538548 in the field of NGC 2403, Jaroslav Merc, Rudolf Gális, Jan Kára, Marek Wolf, Martin Vrašťák, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, ISSN 0035-8711, Roč. 499, č. 2 (2020), s. 2116-2123, DOI 10.1093/mnras/staa3063, IF (5 year): 5.5, Q:1, Počet ohlasov:0

Spectroscopic and photometric analysis of symbiotic candidates - I. Ten candidates on classical symbiotic stars, Jaroslav Merc, Rudolf Gális, Marek Wolf, Peter Velez, Christian Buil, Forrest Sims, Terry Bohlsen, Martin Vrašťák, Christophe Boussin, Hubert Boussier, Paolo Cazzato, Ibrahima Diarrasouba, Francois Teyssier, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, ISSN 0035-8711, Roč. 506, č. 3 (2021), s. 4151-4162. DOI 10.1093/mnras/stab2034, IF (2021): 5.2, Q:1, Počet ohlasov: 3

V618 Sgr: galactic eclipsing symbiotic nova detected in repeated outbursts, Jaroslav Merc, Rudolf Gális, Peter Velez, Stéphane Charbonnel, Olivier Garde, Pascal Le Dû, Lionel Mulato, Thomas Petit, Terry Bohlsen, Sean Curry, Tom Love, Hamish Barker, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, ISSN 0035-8711, Roč. 523, č. 1 (2023), s. 163-168, DOI 10.1093/mnras/stad1434, IF (5 year): 4.7, Q:1, Počet ohlasov:1
Selected projects

Project COST Action OC-2016-1-20829 - Chemical Elements as Tracers of the Evolution of the Cosmos, 2016 - 2020, member of the executive committee

Project APVV-15-0458 - Interacting binary stars - the key to understanding the Universe, 2016 – 2020, member of the research team

Project APVV-20-0148 - From interacting stars to exoplanets, 2021 - 2025, member of the research team
International mobilities and visits
Department of Physics, University of Athens; Kryoneri Observatory, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece, 1998, 2000, 2006 (3 - 5 week stays), study and research stays
Intitut d'Astrophysique, Paris, France, 1999 (4 week stay), study stay
ISDC Data Centre for Astrophysics, Versoix, Switzerland, 2007 - 2009, study stay within the project ESA PECS Research of Cataclismatic Variable Stars
Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ondřejov, Czech Republic, 2007 - 2009, employment contract
Tartu Observatory, Tartu University, Tõravere, Estonia, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 (3 - 4 week stays), research stays
Astronomical Institute of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 (3 - 4 week stays), study stays within Erasmus + mobility
Organisational activities
Joint Departmental Committee for Doctoral Studies in the Fields of Study Astronomy and Astrophysics, member - Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava, 2009 -
Departmental Committee for Doctoral Studies in the field of study Astrophysics, member, co-guarantor - Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, 2014 -
Slovak Astronomical Society, president, scientific secretary - Slovak Academy Of Science, 2011 - 2019 (scientific secretary), 2019 - (president)
National Coordinator for Astronomical Educational and Outreach Activities of the International Astronomical Union - International Astronomical Union, 2018 -
Popular-scientific astronomical journal KOZMOS, member of the editorial board, expert guarantor - Slovak Central Observatory in Hurbanovo, 2014 -

Additional information

Awards
Award of the Dean of the Faculty of Science, Pavel Jozef Šafárik University in Košice for pedagogical activities (2020).
Projects
Member of the management committee of the foreign project :
  • COST Action CA16117 - Chemical Elements as Tracers of the Evolution of the Cosmos (2017 - 2021)
Member of the research team of foreign projects:
  • Photometric research of selected symbiotic and cataclysmic variable stars , bilateral Slovak-Greek international scientific and technical cooperation (1999 - 2000)
  • Investigations photometriques et spectroscopiques de certaines e'toiles binaires cataclysmiques on symbiotiques , bilateral Slovak-French international scientific cooperation (1999 - 2000)
  • International Greek-Slovak Online Network of Astronomical Observatories , bilateral Slovak-Greek international scientific and technical cooperation (2005 - 2007)
  • Research of cataclysmic variable stars - INTEGRAL project , bilateral Slovak-Czech international scientific cooperation between the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2003 - 2005)
  • PECS 98023 Czech Participation to INTEGRAL (2005 - 2008)
  • PECS 98058 Czech participation in the Gaia project (2007 - 2011)
Principal investigator of the domestic project
  • APVV LPP-0091-09 With Telescope on the Road (2009 - 2012)
Deputy investigator of domestic projects:
  • Grant VEGA 5016/98, Physical processes in cataclysmic and related interacting binary stars (1998 - 2000)
  • Grant VEGA 2/1008/21, Accretion, mass transfer and their physical manifestations in cataclysmic binary stars and related objects (2001 - 2003)
  • Grant VEGA 2/4015/4, Structure of transmission areas of cataclysmic and related interacting binary stars , (2004 - 2006)
  • Grant VEGA 2/7011/7, Activity as a consequence of physical mechanisms associated with mass transfer and accretion in selected interacting binary stars (2007 - 2009)
  • VEGA 2/0078/10 Physical properties of activity cycles of selected interacting binary stars (2010 - 2012)
  • VEGA 2/0038/13 Physical properties of accretion structures in interacting binary stars (2013 - 2015)
  • KEGA 007UPJS / 2013, Modern trends in the teaching of astronomy and astrophysics (2013 - 2015)
Member of the research team of domestic projects:
  • Project APVT-51-000802, Slovak Network of Photometric Telescopes for the Study of Selected Physical Processes in Variable Stars (2002 - 2005)
  • EU SF Project - Center of Excellence "Space Research Center: Influences of Space Weather" (1st stage, ITMS No. 26220120009, 2009 - 2011, 2nd stage, ITMS 26220120009, 2010 - 2013)
  • Project APVV-0158-11, From interacting binary stars to exoplanets (2012 - 2015)
  • Project APVV-15-0458, Interacting binaries – Key for the Understanding of the Universe (2016-2020)
  • Project APVV- -20-0148, From interacting stars to exoplanets (2021-2025)
International collaboration
with foreign organizations:
  • Astronomical Institute, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ondřejov, Czech Republic
  • Tartu Observatory, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia
  • INTEGRAL Science Data Center, Versoix, Switzerland
  • Department of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics, Faculty of Physics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  • Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France
  • International Astronomical Union
  • European Astronomical Society
with domestic organizations:
  • Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Tatranská Lomnica
  • Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava
  • Slovak Central Observatory, Hurbanovo
  • Observatory, Partizánske
  • Observatory and Planetarium of M. R. Štefánik, Hlohovec
  • Regional Observatory and Planetarium of M. Hella, Žiar nad Hronom
  • Observatory and Planetarium, Leisure Center, Košice
  • Observatory and Planetarium, Medzev
  • Vihorlat Observatory, Humenné
  • Slovak Astronomical Society
  • Slovak Association of Astronomers
Other
  • Member of Working Group WG 5.5 Cataclysmic Variable Stars (INTEGRAL / ESA), member of the Managing Committee of the COST Action Project 16117.
  • Coordinator of International Observation Campaigns (ARAS, AAVSO).
  • Lectures for F-X, Erasmus + students and U3V UPJŠ students.
  • Opponent of 8 dissertations, 5 written theses for the dissertation exam, 3 rigorous and 6 diploma theses, 2 university textbooks.
  • Initiator and coordinator of the project Observatory and Planetarium - joint workplace of the Faculty of Science of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice and the Leisure Center in Košice.
  • Editor (together with Dr. L. Hric) of the foreign peer-reviewed proceedings of the international mini-symposium Active stars and interacting binaries , which took place within the Joint European And National Astronomical Meeting (JENAM 03), 24 - August 31, 2003, Faculty of Science, Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary. The proceedings was published in the foreign peer-reviewed journal Baltic Astronomy , Vol. 13 , No.1, 2004.
  • Assessor for the The Slovak Accreditation Agency for Higher Education , grant agencies (APVV, VEGA, KEGA, SASPRO 2, SAIA), for foreign and domestic scientific journals.
  • Vice-Chairman of the Slovak National Astronomical Committee of the International Astronomical Union (2019 -).
  • Chairman of the conference organizing committee: Conference of Young Astronomers (2021, 2023), Conference on the History of Astronomy (2022), Astronomical Research in Slovakia (2020), Astronomical Education in Slovakia (2019, 2023 ), Cassovia Astronomy Seminar (2000 - 2010), Astronomy at the Turn of the Millennium (2000), News in Astronomy (1999 - 2000).
  • Member of the organizing committee of the Conference on the Achievements of Stellar Astronomy , Bezovec (1996-2018).
  • Member of the organizing committee of the Czech-Slovak Student Scientific Conference in Physics (2015).
  • Expert guarantor and principal investigator of the project With Telescope on the Road (EU "Youth" 2006, APVV LPP-0091-09, 2009-2012, Prime Minister's Reserve, 2022-2023).
  • Supervisor of astronomical clubs, preparation of students for competitions and SOČ, organizer of astronomical competitions, astronomical camps and observation expeditions for young people.
  • National coordinator of activities on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the International astronomical union (2019).
  • He promote astronomy and science through lectures for the public with a focus on young people ( Science Café, Science Patisserie, Space Talk, Nobel Lectures, , etc.), by organizing events (e.g. in the framework of 100 hours of astronomy, European Researchers' Night, Science and Technology Week in Slovakia ), articles for popular science journals( Quark, Kozmos, Albedo ), media appearances.
Interesting links
Hobbies
astronomy, sci-fi, plastic modelling, photography, hiking, cycling

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