Jozef Ristvej
Vice-Rector for International Relations and Marketing at the University of Žilina
Prof. Dr. Jozef RISTVEJ gained his Ph.D. in 2007 at the University of Žilina, Slovakia – the EU, in Crisis Management. Since that time he received postdoctoral position as the Assistant Professor, in 2014 after successful habilitation he has received position as Associate Professor and in 2019 as Full Professor at the Department of Crisis Management, Faculty of Security Engineering, University of Žilina. Since October 2014 he is at the position of Vice-Rector for International Relations and Marketing at the university. In 2007 he participated in ISCRAM Crisis Management Summer School for Ph.D. students. In 2010 received the visiting scholar grant of Ruth Crawford Mitchell to the Center for Disaster Management at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. In his work he is focusing on supporting the information systems in the area of the decision making process in crisis management and smart city resilience. For the year of 2012 was selected by the European Commission as Erasmus Staff Ambassador – 25th anniversary of the Erasmus Programme and in 2018 he received the Price for Science and Technology of the Minister of Education, Science and Research of the Slovak Republic. He was member of the editorial review board of the International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM) of the ISCRAM Association and the editorial board of the Infotechnology journal in Lithuania, in 2012 was member of the ISCRAM 2012 Conference organizing committee. He is author of several papers in Europe and abroad. He is a member of several European and national scientific project teams and as well of the ISCRAM Association in Brussels (Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management), the Society for Science and the Public, in Washington D.C., Vice-President of the AMAVET – Slovak Association for Youth, Science and Technology, in Bratislava and Senior Member of the IEEE.
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