Professor Ľubomír Švorc has become the ESET Science Award 2025 laureate in the category of Outstanding Personality of Higher Education. He received the Award at a gala evening on Thursday, 9 October.
Professor Ľubomír Švorc works for the Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the STU Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, where he heads the Laboratory of Modern Electroanalytical Methods. Together with his students, he develops new approaches to the determination of biologically active substances by using advanced electrochemical sensors. Their research enables faster, cheaper and more user-friendly analytical methods for development of the pharmaceutical, clinical, food and environmental applications. He perceives his pedagogical and scientific activities as inextricably linked vessels. His students achieve excellent results at home and abroad, and find wide application in the labour market. He attributes his own achievements in research and education to hard work, self-discipline and, above all, excellent cooperation with students.
For the seventh year, the ESET Science Award has honoured personalities with exceptional contributions to science and education in Slovakia, whose scientific and research activities have a significant impact on the development of their field as well as society.
In the category of Outstanding Personality of Science in Slovakia, the award was granted to Martin Kahanec, an economist. Daniela Vacek, a philosopher, became the laureate in the category of Outstanding Personality of Science under 35. The Public Award was granted to Zuzana Gdovinová, a neurologist.
The laureates of the ESET Science Award 2025 were nominated by an international committee headed by Edvard Moser, a Nobel Prize winner. The laureates in the category of Outstanding Personality of Higher Education were nominated by representatives of Slovak universities.
Source: ESET
Photo: Linda Kisková Bohušová
