Executive Board Member

Ján Parobek, Ph.D.
Assoc. Professor
Technical University in Zvolen, Department of Marketing, Trade and World Forestry
T. G. Masaryka 24, 960 53 Zvolen, Slovak Republic
Phone: +421 (0)45 5206 484; Fax.: +421 (0)45 5479 919
Email: parobek@tuzvo.sk; Web: http://www.tuzvo.sk/df/kmosl

Assoc. Prof. Ján Parobek, Phd. focuses on sectoral economies. His research is aimed at the issue of sustainable resources, innovations, marketing and business. Since 1999 he has been working at the Department of Marketing, Trade and World Forestry at the Technical University in Zvolen. He is the supervisor of lectures focused on Innovation, Marketing and Project Management. The scientific activity is further focused on the field of bioeconomy, innovations, circular economy, competitiveness of forest industry, certification in forestry, forest service analysis, product substitution on the wood market and wood products. The scientific activities of the principal investigator are characterized by the publishing activity.

He was the coordinator of the projects granted by Slovak Ministry of Education, participant of the 5th and 6th FP, COST projects E 44 and Member of MC FP 1104, APVV projects and 13 realised research projects. Presently, he is a member of MC COST Action CA22155, Network for forest by-products charcoal, resin, tar, potash (EU-PoTaRCh). He was the investigator of the OP R&D project Centre of Excellence. He was the principal investigator of the project "A comprehensive model of wood chain comparative advantages. VEGA 1/0387/13, 2013 – 2015. He was the deputy of principal investigator of VEGA 1/0473/16 Dynamics and determinants of woodbased products market in the Slovak Republic and member of MC COST Action FP1405 Active and intelligent fibre-based packing – Innovations and market introduction. At the present time he is principal investigator of VEGA 1/0666/19 Determination of the development of a wood-based bioeconomy. He is a head of the Economic board - the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Wood Sciences and Technology at Technical University in Zvolen. He is the member of advisory board for CITIES by Slovak Ministry of Environment. He was (Years 2020-2021) the president and presently he is a member of an Executive Board of the International Association for Economics and Management in Wood Processing and Furniture Manufacturing (WoodEMA, i.a.). Experiences and skills of the investigator are documented by his international engagement and active participation in more than 60 international scientific events. During his career, he was the leader of 2 foreign and 3 domestic research projects. He has completed 10 exchange programmes in various European countries, including a 9-month stay at the University of Joensuu (Finland), supported by the CIMO Finnish Government's scholarship (period 2003 to 2004) as a visiting researcher, and an internship in the Montana Community del Casentino, Tuscany, Italy (period 2000-2001) within the framework of the „Leonardo da Vinci“ Economic integration of SMEs to EU dimension in multimedia – placement/exchange programme between the Veb academia Europea and the Technical University in Zvolen.

Assoc. Prof. Ján Parobek, Phd. is professionally widely profiled staff, known and recognized expert in the field of utilisation of renewable resources at national and European level. During his work at the Faculty of Wood Sciences and Technology he has elaborated and published 7 university textbooks; he is the author and co-author of 6 monographies and more than 50 scientific papers in foreign and domestic scientific journals, 12 papers in scientific proceedings and more than 80 articles published at domestic and international scientific conferences. There are 54 publications indexed in WOS database (of which 9 in Current Contents Connect database) with more than 440 citations indexed in WOS database (H index = 16) and more than 750 citations indexed in Google scholar databases.