P. J. Šafárik University in Košice

UPJŠ was ranked the second-best Slovak university in the RankPro TOP World Leading Universities rankings in 2022. Research infrastructure of the UPJŠ was upgraded in the previous years (2010-2021) by the implementation of 25 projects within the national Operational Program Research and Development defined in the official National Strategic Reference Framework 2007-2013 and 2014-2020 negotiated with EC. UPJŠ has participated in several FP5, FP6, FP7, and H2020 research projects. Intense collaboration of the UPJŠ with more than 160 academic and research institutions all around the world ensures the international character of the bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD study programmes within Erasmus+ and Cotutelle schemes.

The research group in the Laboratory of ferromagnetism, headed by Prof. Peter Kollár, and the Laboratory of the preparation of powder and compacted materials, headed by Assoc. Prof. Ján Füzer, pursues the experimental research of the magnetisation and related dissipation phenomena in the soft magnetic materials including alloys, ferrites, composites, and steel laminations. They rely on the experimental capability of materials production by advanced powder metallurgy and on the accurate magnetic characterisation methods up to a few hundred kHz range. The group focuses on the design and characterisation of innovative magnetic materials for electronics. Their members serve as lecturers at the UPJŠ study programmes of General Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, and Advanced Materials.