Jozef Gruska

                             Short CV


Prof. Jozef Gruska was borned in 1933. He took his PhD from Slovak Academy 
of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia. Currently he is with Masaryk 
University, Czech Republic. He is an expert in Theoretical Informatics 
(Book "Foundations in computing", US, 730 pages, 1997) and Quantum 
Information Processing (Book "Quantum computing", UK, 430 pages, 1999). ver
150 publications.  At Faculty of Informatics he was the head of several big 
research projects in years 1998-2011.  Currently he is the  head of the
Graduate study and a special PhD project at the Faculty of Informatics,
 Masaryk University. He was (has been) member of the scientific board of 
the Masaryk University - 1998-2011 (Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk 
University -since 1997.

Prof. Jozef Gruska has been very active internationally. Founder of five 
regular international conferences including Asia Quantum Information Science
e (Japan, Korea, China), 2001-2010. He gave over 270 talks on international
events including two invited talks at the World Computer Congress. The 
founding head (1989-1996) of the main international committee  for 
theoretical informatics at IFIP (International Federation of Information 
Processing). He spent 15 years at major universities of Europe, North 
America, Asia and Africa.

Elected member (since 2006) of the Academia Europaea, member of its 
Informatics Section committee (since 2006) and member of its Council 
(2007-2010). "Computer pioneer" award of IEEE USA and many other awards 
and recognitions including Bolzano award of Czech Academy of Sciences
and IFIP Silver medal. Slovak TV made about him movie in prestigious series 
GEN.sk.