Vision
The long-term vision of SAFTRA Photonics is based on synergy between research performing in the Center for interdisciplinary biosciences, education in biophysics executed by Department of Biophysics of the P. J. Safarik University and related technology transfer implemented by SAFTRA Photonics. Sharing of the common laboratory space by all three institutions assure a high efficiency of such collaboration and has an important impact even for an economic and social development of the region.
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Management – CEO profile
Prof. Miskovsky (CEO) obtained his PhD degree in Biophysics in 1986 at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic and DrSc. degree in Biophysics in 2000 at Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia. Since then he has been holding a position of full-time professor in Physics at the P. J. Safarik University. Prof. Miskovsky´s invited professor positions include: University of Paris VI (France), University of Orleans (France), Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Madrid (Spain), Fulbright fellowship at Iowa State University, Ames (USA).
He published his scientific results in 124 peer-reviewed articles (including six invited reviews) with more than 1000 citations in SCI. P.M. is a member of the executive committee the European Biophysical Societies Association and the member of the executive board of the pan-European infrastructure network Euro-bioImaging. He is an author of two patents in the field of Biophotonics. In 2014 he was awarded by the price “Scientist of the Slovak Republic”.
In 2014 he founded the company SAFTRA photonics to utilize the research excellence in products and services.
