Biographies of Representatives and Alternates

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Slovakia

Representative

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Alžbeta Durecova

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 was the alternate representative of the Slovakia to UNSCEAR from the 63rd session (2016) to the seventieth session (2023) and is the representative since the seventy-second session (2025).

Alternate Representative

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Anita Zubáková

Anita Zubáková is the Radiation Protection Inspector at the Public Health Authority of the Slovak Republic. 

She began her studies at the Secondary Medical School in Bratislava (2004–2007) as a radiologic technologist, followed by a degree in public health with a focus on radiation protection at the Slovak Medical University (2007–2012). She is now pursuing doctoral studies on the benefits and risks of CBCT in dentistry, as well as a rigorous thesis on patient radiation protection from a public health perspective.

Ms. Zubáková has over a decade of experience as a radiologic technologist, working in both radiology and radiation oncology across major institutions including University Hospital Bratislava, the National Cancer Institute and MedPoint s.r.o. From 2019 to 2023, and again since 2025, she has served as a Radiation Protection Inspector at the Public Health Authority of the Slovak Republic(2019-2023). Also, she was Chief State Advisor at the Ministry of Health (2023–2024) and Head of the Central Processing Department at University Hospital Bratislava (2024).

Ms. Zubáková serves as alternate representative of Slovakia to UNSCEAR since the 72nd session in 2025. She is Slovakia’s national contact person for the UNSCEAR global surveys on radiation exposure.