Dusan Berkes

Dusan Berkes was born in 1957 and now work as Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.  He graduated summa cum laude in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology at the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava in 1981. In 1987 he obtained the Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry (supervisor Prof. J. Kovac) and was hired as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. In 2002 he was appointed as Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the same University. From 2012 he is a head of Detached university laboratory in Saneca Pharmaceuticals company. He was the post-doctoral fellow in the group of Professor Henry-Basch at the University Paris-Sud (France) and research fellow at the University of Le Havre (France). The main research interest relies on stereoselective nonproteinogenic amino acid synthesis, crystallization-induced asymmetric transformations, with the applications towards the synthesis of sphingolipid metabolism inhibitors.