doc. Ing. Branislav Buľko, PhD.
Director of Institute of Metallurgy
Letná 9, 042 00 Košice
Slovakia
Tel.+421 55 602 3169
Scopus Author ID: 54390763800
Web of Science ResearcherID E-7403-2015
Education and scientific qualification:
- 2015: doc., Department - Metallurgy, Department of Iron Metallurgy and Foundry, Faculty of Metallurgy TU - Košice
- 2009: PhD., Department - Metallurgy of Metals, Department of Iron Metallurgy and Foundry, Faculty of Metallurgy TU - Košice
- 2006: Ing., Department of Iron Metallurgy and Foundry, Faculty of Metallurgy TU - Košice
Professional experience:
- 2019: Director of Institute of Metallurgy, Faculty of Materials, Metallurgy and Recycling, Technical university of Košice
- 2019: Associated professor – Faculty of Materials, Metallurgy and Recycling, Technical university of Košice
- 2009: Researcher. Active participation in domestic and foreign conferences, publishing activities, pedagogical activities
Areas of pedagogical activity:
- Iron and steelmaking
- Metallurgy
- Simulation of processes
- Secondary steelmaking
- Continuous casting process
- Theory of metallurgical processes
- Physics and chemical fundamentals in metallurgy
- Theoretical foundations of steelmaking processes
Areas of scientific knowledge:
- Physical modelling and simulation of flow processes
- Lime utilization in metallurgy including testing of its properties
- Continuous casting
- Research of high temperature stability of quartzite
- High temperature laboratory experiments
- Hydrogen utilization in metallurgy
- Optimization of properties of metallurgical slag
- Secondary steelmaking processes
Knowledge of a foreign language:
Other indicators of scientific productivity:
- Leader of joint laboratory SimConT – the water mode of tundish of ŽP, a.s.
- Leader of Laboratory of Simulation of Flow Processes: https://ohaz.umet.fmmr.tuke.sk/lspp/index_en.html
- Principal investigator and investigator of grant tasks.
- Team leader of research teams.
