Vladimir Slugen has been working at the Institute of Nuclear and Physical Engineering of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava as a researcher and senior lecturer since 1985. He has obtained a Ph.D. in Built Nuclear Equipment (1993) and a degree of Professor in Nuclear Power Engineering (2005). His main fields of research and teaching activities are the operation and safety of nuclear power plants and the application of spectroscopic methods in the investigation of materials used in nuclear industry. He has published more than 100 original papers in scientific journals and international conferences. In 2004, he was elected president of the Slovak Nuclear Society.