Prof. Dr. Dušan Galusek is a professor of materials science at the Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín (TnUAD) in Trenčín, Slovakia. He also serves as the director of the Centre for Functional and Surface-Functionalized Glass (FunGlass) and the head of the Join Glass Center of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (IIC SAS) and the TnUAD. He obtained his master's degree in chemical technology with honors from the Slovak University of Technology in 1991. At the same University, he also earned his PhD in inorganic technology in 1995. There, he also habilitated in 2006 and earned the academic degree professor in 2013. In the same year, he also achieved the scientific degree "Doctor of Sciences" from the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The start of his academic career was associated with the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava till 2005. After that, he connected his professional life with the TnUAD, where he established the Centre for Functional and Surface-Functionalized Glass, an internationally recognized center dealing with R&D activities in the field of glass and advanced ceramic materials. The research activities of Prof. Galusek cover ceramic composites, advanced ceramic materials, polymer-derived ceramics, aluminate glasses, bioactive glass and ceramics, and corrosion of glass and ceramic materials.