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Robert Mistrík | |
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Born | Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) | 13 August 1966
Political party |
Freedom and Solidarity (2010-2012) Independent |
Spouse | Zuzana Mistríková |
Children | Two sons |
Alma mater |
Slovak Technical University University of Vienna |
Robert Mistrík (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈrɔbert ˈmistriːk], born 13 August 1966) is a Slovak chemist, scientist, businessman, and politician. [1] [2]
Mistrík was born on 13 August 1966 in Banská Bystrica. [3] He attended Gymnázium Jozefa Gregora Tajovského in Banská Bystrica. In 1991, he graduated with a degree in Analytical Chemistry from the Faculty of Chemical Technology of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. [4] After completing a PhD at the University of Vienna in 1994, [5] Mistrík continued his scientific career as a visiting scholar at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
In 1998, Mistrík founded the mass spectrometry, metabolomics and chemical analysis firm HighChem, which he still manages. [6] Mistrík served as a member of the scientific steering committee in the METAcancer consortium, focused on the search for breast cancer biomarkers. [7] He is the author of a patent for the identification of small molecules, including novel diagnostic markers of insidious diseases, [8] as well as Mass Frontier software. [9]
On 3 February 2009, Mistrík became the laureate of the scientific award "Head of the Year" for the most significant innovation. [10] In 2014, he was re-elected director by members of the international Metabolomics Society. [11]
Mistrík leads the development of a cloud-based spectral tree database called mzCloud, [12] which enables the identification of multiple scientific problems. [13] He is also the co-author of the method of searching mass spectra via Google, published in Nature Biotechnology. [14] It was an achievement that a scientist from a Slovak institution managed after 14 years. [15]
In 2009, Mistrík co-founded Freedom and Solidarity as a member of the preparatory committee. [4] He was a member of the party until 2012. [16]
On 15 May 2018, Mistrík announced his candidacy as President of Slovakia in the 2019 Slovak presidential election, [17] only to rule out after the announcement of Zuzana Čaputová as new President of Slovakia. [18]
In 2017, Mistrík was accused of doping by Slovak race walker Matej Tóth. [19] Mistrík also led a domestic public presentation of expert arguments proving Tóth's innocence, who was cleared of all suspicions and cleared by the IAAF. [20]