Biographies of Representatives and Alternates

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Slovakia

Representative

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Ludmila Auxtova

Ms. Auxtova joined the Regional Public Health Authority in Banská Bystrica in 1983 and has been involved in different projects concerning radiation protection. She has worked as a regulator in several positions, including radiation protection section head, in many regulatory domains for more than 35 years.

Ms. Ludmila Auxtova graduated from the Czech Technical University, Faculty of Nuclear Physics and Engineering in Prague in 1983 (Dipl. Eng. in Nuclear Physics, specialization Dosimetry and Applications of Ionizing Radiation) and became a Radiation Protection Specialist in 1986.

Ms. Auxtova has been member of Group of Experts established under Art. 37 of the Euratom Treaty (2021-2023) and of the IAEA Radiation Safety Standards Committe (2021-2023).

Ms. Auxtova has been the Alternate representative of Slovakia to UNSCEAR at its sixty-first session in 2014. She is the Representative since the sixty-second session in 2015.

Alternate Representative

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Alžbeta Ďurecová

Dr. Alžbeta Ďurecová is the assistant adviser at the Regional Public Health Authority in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.

Dr. Ďurecová graduated at the Slovak Technical University, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology with a master´s degree in chemistry and received a PhD degree in environmental chemistry and radiochemistry in 2002.

From 1989 to  2014, Dr. Ďurecová was head of radiochemical laboratories at the Regional Public Health Authority in Banská Bystrica. She was  involved in two EU projects related to the harmonisation techniques and methodologies for measuring radioactivity in the environment and the education in field of environmental chemistry and participated in several IAEA projects (e.g. TC project RER/9/127 "Establishing Enhanced Approaches to the Control of Public Exposure to Radon", TC project RER/0/033 "Supporting Quality Assurance for the Measurement and Monitoring of Radioactivity in the Environment").

Her primary research and professional activities are focused on radiochemistry and radiation protection related to exposure to radon.

Dr. Ďurecová is alternate representative of the Slovakia to UNSCEAR since the 63rd session (2016).