Fakulta matematiky, fyziky
a informatiky
Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave

Ivan Kontuľ

 

The main scientific interest of I. Kontuľ is accelerator mass spectrometry and specifically its use in radiocarbon analysis. This includes radiocarbon dating of archaeological and geological samples, as well as studies of environmental radiocarbon activity. In addition to various applications of radiocarbon analysis, his research is also focused on development and optimization of sample preparation methodologies and measurement methods.

 

Affiliation: Comenius University, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics

Address: Mlynska dolina F-1, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia

Email: ivan.kontul@fmph.uniba.sk

Phone: +421 2 60295652

 

Education

2010 – 2013 Physics (Bc.)

2013 – 2015 Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics (Mgr.) Diploma work: Radiocarbon analysis of tree ring samples by AMS (Supervisor:  RNDr. Miroslav Ješkovský, PhD.)

2015 – 2019 Environmental Physics (PhD.) Thesis: Development of accelerator mass spectrometry for analysis of environmental radionuclides (Supervisor: prof. RNDr. Pavel Povinec, DrSc.)

 

Academic Career

2019 - present Research Assistant, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University

 

Employment

2019 - present Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University

 

Pedagogical Activities

 

University courses for undergraduate and graduate studies

Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics

Practical Exercises in Monitoring of Environmental Radioactivity

Practical Exercises in Nuclear Physics and Electronics

 

 

Renewable Energy Sources and Environmental Physics

Practical Exercises in Radiation Monitoring

Field Research

 

 

Scientific Activities

 

Recent scientific projects

2016 – present     Rare nuclear processes and development of methods for their investigations (APVV-15-576)

2018 – present     Enhancing capacity for environmental radionuclide monitoring in Slovakia, International Atomic Energy Agency (SLR/1001)

2016 – 2020         Investigation of Lunar meteorites and similar chondrites (VEGA 1/0891/17)

2014 – 2017         Environmental radionuclide monitoring in Slovakia, International Atomic Energy Agency (SLR/008)

 

International collaboration projects

2017 – present     SuperNEMO

2017 – present     LEGEND

 

Fellowships/visiting posts

2017      AMS Laboratory, University of Arizona, USA

2015      HEKAL Laboratory, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

 

Participation at international conferences

2019      5th International Conference on Environmental Radioactivity ENVIRA2019, Prague

Radiocarbon analysis of carbonaceous aerosols in Bratislava, Slovakia (oral)

Radiocarbon in tree rings from a clean air region of Low Tatras in Slovakia (poster)

2018      18th Radiochemical Conference, Mariánské Lázně

Impact of nuclear power plants on radiocarbon in the atmosphere and biosphere of Slovakia (oral)

23rd International Radiocarbon Conference, Trondheim

Comparison of hydrogen and zinc graphitization methods used in sample preparation for accelerator mass spectrometry (poster)

Radiocarbon in the atmosphere and biosphere of Slovakia: Impact of nuclear power plants (poster)

2017      4th International Conference on Environmental Radioactivity ENVIRA2017, Vilnius

                               Radiocarbon record in modern tree rings from Slovakia (oral)

               Radiocarbon in wines: a useful tracer for studying environmental processes and wine dating (poster)

                2nd International Radiocarbon in the Environment Conference, Debrecen

Radiocarbon in modern tree-rings and atmosphere in Bratislava, Slovakia (oral)

Methodology for measurement of radiocarbon concentration in wines using a gas proportional counter (poster)

 

List of publications

 

Books and book chapters

1.       Ješkovský M., J. Kaizer, I. Kontuľ, G. Lujaniené, M. Müllerová, P.P. Povinec: Analysis of Environmental Radionuclides. In: Handbook of Radioactivity, 4th edition (Ed. M.F. L’Annunziata). Academic Press, New York, 2019, p. 137-261.

 

Publications in SCI journals

2020

1.       Kontuľ I., I. Svetlik, P.P. Povinec, K. Pachnerová Brabcová, M. Molnár. Radiocarbon in tree rings from a clean air region in Slovakia. J. Environ. Radioact. 218 (2020) 106237.

2.       Kontuľ I., J. Kaizer, M. Ješkovský, P. Steier, P.P. Povinec. Radiocarbon analysis of carbonaceous aerosols in Bratislava, Slovakia. J. Environ. Radioact. 218 (2020) 106221.

3.       Povinec P.P., I. Kontuľ, S.-H. Lee, I. Sýkora, J. Kaizer, M. Richtáriková. Radiocarbon and 137Cs dating of wines. J. Environ. Radioact. 217 (2020) 106205.

2019

1.       Zeman J., M. Ješkovský, J. Kaizer, J. Pánik, I. Kontuľ, J. Staníček, P.P. Povinec. Analysis of meteorite samples using PIXE technique. J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 322 (2019) 1897–1903.

 

2018

1.       Kontuľ I., P.P. Povinec, A. Šivo, M. Richtáriková. Radiocarbon in the atmosphere around the Bohunice nuclear power plant in Slovakia. J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 318 (2018) 2335-2339.

2.       Kaizer J., J. Obuch, I. Kontuľ, A. Šivo, M. Richtáriková, P. Čech, P.P. Povinec. Methods of Radiocarbon Determination in Wine and Bone Samples by Gas Proportional Counting Technique. Radiocarbon 60 (2018) 1139–1149.

 

2017

1.       Kontuľ I., M. Ješkovský, J. Kaizer, A. Šivo, M. Richtáriková, P.P. Povinec, P. Čech, P. Steier, R. Golser. Radiocarbon concentration in tree-ring samples collected in the south-west Slovakia (1974–2013). Appl. Radiat. Isot. 126 (2017) 58–60.

2.       Abgrall N., A. Abramov, N. Abrosimov, I. Abt, M. Agostini, M. Agartioglu, A. Ajjaq, S.I. Alvis, F.T. Avignone, X. Bai, M. Balata, I. Barabanov, A.S. Barabash, P.J. Barton, L. Baudis, L. Bezrukov, T. Bode, A. Bolozdynya, D. Borowicz, A. Boston, H. Boston, S.T.P. Boyd, R. Breier, V. Brudanin, R. Brugnera, M. Busch, M. Buuck, A. Caldwell, T.S. Caldwell, T. Camellato, M. Carpenter, C. Cattadori, J. Cederkäll, Y.-D. Chan, S. Chen, A. Chernogorov, C.D. Christofferson, P.-H. Chu, R.J. Cooper, C. Cuesta, E. V. Demidova, Z. Deng, M. Deniz, J.A. Detwiler, N. Di Marco, A. Domula, Q. Du, Y. Efremenko, V. Egorov, S.R. Elliott, D. Fields, F. Fischer, A. Galindo-Uribarri, A. Gangapshev, A. Garfagnini, T. Gilliss, M. Giordano, G.K. Giovanetti, M. Gold, P. Golubev, C. Gooch, P. Grabmayr, M.P. Green, J. Gruszko, I.S. Guinn, V.E. Guiseppe, V. Gurentsov, Y. Gurov, K. Gusev, J. Hakenmüeller, L. Harkness-Brennan, Z.R. Harvey, C.R. Haufe, L. Hauertmann, D. Heglund, L. Hehn, A. Heinz, R. Hiller, J. Hinton, R. Hodak, W. Hofmann, S. Howard, M.A. Howe, M. Hult, L. V. Inzhechik, J.J. Csáthy, R. Janssens, M. Ješkovský, J. Jochum, H.T. Johansson, D. Judson, M. Junker, J. Kaizer, K. Kang, V. Kazalov, Y. Kermadic, F. Kiessling, A. Kirsch, A. Kish, A. Klimenko, K.T. Knöpfle, O. Kochetov, S.I. Konovalov, I. Kontul, V.N. Kornoukhov, T. Kraetzschmar, K. Kröninger, A. Kumar, V. V. Kuzminov, K. Lang, M. Laubenstein, A. Lazzaro, Y.L. Li, Y.-Y. Li, H.B. Li, S.T. Lin, M. Lindner, I. Lippi, S.K. Liu, X. Liu, J. Liu, D. Loomba, A. Lubashevskiy, B. Lubsandorzhiev, G. Lutter, H. Ma, B. Majorovits, F. Mamedov, R.D. Martin, R. Massarczyk, J.A.J. Matthews, N. McFadden, D.-M. Mei, H. Mei, S.J. Meijer, D. Mengoni, S. Mertens, W. Miller, M. Miloradovic, R. Mingazheva, M. Misiaszek, P. Moseev, J. Myslik, I. Nemchenok, T. Nilsson, P. Nolan, C. O’Shaughnessy, G. Othman, K. Panas, L. Pandola, L. Papp, K. Pelczar, D. Peterson, W. Pettus, A.W.P. Poon, P.P. Povinec, A. Pullia, X.C. Quintana, D.C. Radford, J. Rager, C. Ransom, F. Recchia, A.L. Reine, S. Riboldi, K. Rielage, S. Rozov, N.W. Rouf, E. Rukhadze, N. Rumyantseva, R. Saakyan, E. Sala, F. Salamida, V. Sandukovsky, G. Savard, S. Schönert, A.-K. Schütz, O. Schulz, M. Schuster, B. Schwingenheuer, O. Selivanenko, B. Sevda, B. Shanks, E. Shevchik, M. Shirchenko, F. Simkovic, L. Singh, V. Singh, M. Skorokhvatov, K. Smolek, A. Smolnikov, A. Sonay, M. Spavorova, I. Stekl, D. Stukov, D. Tedeschi, J. Thompson, T. Van Wechel, R.L. Varner, A.A. Vasenko, S. Vasilyev, A. Veresnikova, K. Vetter, K. von Sturm, K. Vorren, M. Wagner, G.-J. Wang, D. Waters, W.-Z. Wei, T. Wester, B.R. White, C. Wiesinger, J.F. Wilkerson, M. Willers, C. Wiseman, M. Wojcik, H.T. Wong, J. Wyenberg, W. Xu, E. Yakushev, G. Yang, C.-H. Yu, Q. Yue, V. Yumatov, J. Zeman, Z. Zeng, I. Zhitnikov, B. Zhu, D. Zinatulina, A. Zschocke, A.J. Zsigmond, K. Zuber, G. Zuzel. The large enriched germanium experiment for neutrinoless double beta decay (LEGEND). AIP Conf. Proc. 1894 (2017) 020027.

 

 

 

Publications in other journals

2019

1.       Zeman J., M. Ješkovský, J. Kaizer, J. Pánik, I. Kontuľ, V. Porubčan, J. Staníček, P.P. Povinec. Non-destructive Determination of Elemental Composition of Meteorite Samples Using PIXE Technique. Acta Phys. Univ. Comenianae LIV (2019) 109–114.

 

2016

1.       Kontuľ I., M. Ješkovský, P. Steier, P.P. Povinec, R. Golser.  Radiocarbon concentration in tree rings from Southwest Slovakia. Acta Phys. Univ. Comenianae 53 (2016) 111-118.

 

 

Publications in Conference Proceedings

2018

1.       Palušová V., R. Breier, M. Ješkovský, J. Kaizer, I. Kontuľ, P. Loaiza, F. Piquemal, P.P. Povinec. Monte Carlo simulations of detectors background and development of AMS methods for radiopurity measurements. In: Proc. VII Inter. Pontecorvo Neutrino Physics School (Ed. F. Šimkovic). JINR, Dubna, 2018, p. 135–141.

 

2017

1.       Povinec P.P., R. Breier, M. Ješkovský, J. Kaizer, I. Kontuľ, J. Pánik, M. Richtáriková, J. Staníček, A. Šivo. Accelerator ion technologies in investigation of rare nuclear processes and environmental radioactivity. In: Proc. 19th Conf. Czech Slovak Physicists (Ed. A. Džubinská, M. Reiffers). Slovak Physical Society, Košice, 2017, p. 14–20.

2.       Kontuľ I., M. Ješkovský, J. Kaizer, P.P. Povinec, M. Richtáriková, I. Svetlik, A. Šivo, P. Čech. Radiocarbon record in modern tree rings from Slovakia. In: Proc. ENVIRA2017 Conf. (Ed. G. Lujaniené, P.P. Povinec). SRI Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius, 2017, p. 121–122.

3.       Povinec P., I. Kontuľ, J. Kaizer, A. Šivo, M. Richtáriková. Radiocarbon in wines: a useful tracer for studying environmental processes and wine dating. In: Proc. ENVIRA2017 Conf. (Ed. G. Lujaniené, P.P. Povinec). SRI Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius, 2017, p. 128.

4.       Povinec P., M. Ješkovský, J. Kaizer, I. Kontuľ, I. Sýkora, A. Šivo, X. Hou, M. Laubenstein, L. Steinnes, I. Svetlik, S. Xu. Radionuclides in tree rings from the Fukushima region. In: Proc. ENVIRA2017 Conf. (Ed. G. Lujaniené, P.P. Povinec). SRI Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius, 2017, p. 129-130.

5.       Pánik J., M. Ješkovský, J. Kaizer, I. Kontuľ, J. Zeman, P.P. Povinec. Preparations for AMS analysis of hydrogen isotopes at the CENTA laboratory. In: Proc. ENVIRA2017 Conf. (Ed. G. Lujaniené, P.P. Povinec). SRI Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius, 2017, p. 22–23.

 

2016

1.       Kontuľ I., M. Ješkovský, P. Steier, P.P. Povinec. Radiocarbon in tree-rings from Vysoká pri Morave. In: Proc. ENVIRA2015 Conf. (Ed. A. Ioannidou, P.P. Povinec). Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, 2016, p. 138-140.