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  • How It Works

    PROFESSOR FEDOR ŠIMKOVIC

    Apr 14, 2022 4 minutes
    INTERVIEWED BY DAISY DOBRIJEVIC

    Nuclear and subnuclear physicist Šimkovic works at the Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics at Comenius University in Bratislava. He leads a team of young scientists and doctoral students in studying the fundamental properties of neutrinos – the most widespread elementary particles in the universe. His research covers various scientific fields of atomic physics, nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics. Šimkovic is an ESET Science Award laureate, winning the Outstanding Individual Contributor to Slovak Science award in 2020.

    What are neutrinos?

    Neutrinos are one of the most abundant fundamental particles in the universe. They come in three types, or flavours: electron neutrinos, muon

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