Dr Branislav Kandra (born 9.11.1980) is an independent research worker at the Institute of Hydrology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences Bratislava - Department of subsurface water hydrology on the Research base for Lowland Hydrology Michalovce. As part of his dissertation, he dealt with numerical simulation of hydrological processes in drought conditions and their relation to climatic elements and plant cover. At present, his work is focused on researching the water regime of heavy soils in the East Slovak lowlands, taking into account the hydrometeorological extremes. Dr. Kandra was the leader of one basic and one applied research project. He participated in 12 basic research projects, 4 applied research projects and 2 EU Structural Funds projects. He is the author or co-author of 136 original scientific works, of which 52 have been published in scientific journals and 8 chapters in scientific monographs.