Matej Durcik

Biography

Matej Durcik received his graduate degrees in information sciences from the University of Pittsburgh and in physics from the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. He is currently a researcher at the University of Arizona where he focuses on application of information technologies to environmental sciences, data analysis and modeling. He serves as a data and information manager for two major projects, Catalina-Jemez Critical Zone Observatory and Landscape Evolution Observatory.  In the past, he was associated with the Hydrologic Synthesis project where he developed new dataset which was used in modeling and synthesis efforts which resulted in a production of over twelve scientific articles. As a part of the SAHRA center he was involved in developing a novel conceptual approach for distributed hydrologic parameter identification based on hydrologic similarity and landscape classification used in distributed hydrologic modeling, and designing and implementing multi model system for the estimation of terrestrial water storage in the Colorado River basin. On the beginning of his scientific career, he co-founded the National Metrological Centre for Radon Quantities and was involved in many projects with focus on measurements of natural radiation and its variations.

 

Degrees

• M.S. Information Science
• University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
• Ph.D. Nuclear and Sub-Nuclear
• Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
• Dosimetry of Radon, Thoron, and their Decay Products
• M.S. Nuclear Physics
• Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
• Characteristics of Transition Radiation