Ján Šimkanin

RNDr. Ján Šimkanin, PhD. (1972) has been working as a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics CAS since 2001. He investigates magnetoconvection in the Earth’s core and other planets, performs numerical modeling of Geodynamo and planetary hydromagnetic dynamos, and cosmic magnetohydrodynamics. He obtained title Mgr. (Msc.) after graduating from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Comenius University in Bratislava (1990-1995), the degree of RNDr. after passing a rigorous examination at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the same university (2000), and PhD degree after completing his doctoral studies in geophysics at the same faculty (1995-2001). He is a member of the Council for Foreign Relations of the ASCR (2013-2017 and 2017-2021), in 2011-2015 he was the Co-Chair of the working group I-1: Theory of Planetary Magnetic Fields and Geomagnetic Secular Variation of Division I – Internal Magnetic Fields of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) and in 2015-2019 he was the Chair of the above-mentioned working group. In 2019-2023 he is the Chair of Division I – Internal Magnetic Fields of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA).

Ján Šimkanin was one of the main organizers of the Conference On Natural Dynamos, Stará Lesná, Slovakia (2009) and the second Conference On Natural Dynamos, Valtice (2017). In 2002 he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Geophysics, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany. In 2002, he was also awarded the Roman Herzog scholarship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship based on a Humboldt Fellowship in 2003-2004 at the Institute of Geophysics, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany. Cooperation with colleagues in Göttingen continued in 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2014 (stays of 2-3 months) based on a Return scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Ján Šimkanin collaborates on the project DRESDYN (DREsden Sodium facility for DYNamo and thermohydraulic studies), which is conducted at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) in Germany (F. Stefani and A. Giesecke). A large-scale water hydrodynamic experiment is scheduled in 2024, and a large-scale liquid sodium dynamo experiment in 2025.