1991 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Comenius University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Thesis title: The Cenozoic Development of Western Half of the West Carpathian Orogenic Belt (in Slovak).
2002 Venia docendi in Geology, University of Freiberg, Germany (May 21, 2002).
Thesis title: "Paleostress methods and development of the Carpathian orogenic belt" (in German).
2009 Doctor of Geologic Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia (February 4, 2009).
Thesis title: “Thrustbelts; structural architecture, thermal regimes and petroleum systems”.
Energy and Geoscience Institute Laboratory at Institute of Earth Sciences of Slovak Academy of Sciences
January 2000 – present
Research Professor at Energy and Geoscience Institute at University of Utah
July 2007 – 2010
Adjunct Professor at Department of Geology and Geophysics at University of Utah while keeping the Research Professorship at EGI
August 1998 – January 2000
Research Assistant Professor at Energy and Geoscience Institute at University of Utah
March 1997 - August 1998
Alexander von Humboldt fellow at University of Würzburg, Germany
October 1996 – August 1998
Head of Hydrocarbon Exploration Department at Slovak Geological Survey
October 1995 - October 1996
Lise Meitner fellow at University of Salzburg, Austria
April 1994 - August 1995
Amoco postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College of Sciences, London, UK
February 1993 - February 1994
Royal Society fellow at University of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Both semesters of 1992
Visiting professor at Comenius University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
May 1991 – October 1996
Researcher at Structural Department, Slovak Geological Survey, Bratislava, Slovakia
July 1990 - May 1991
Research associate at ESRI, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
October 1985 – July 1990
Research assistant at Dionýz Štúr Geologic Institute, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia