René Matlovič

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René Matlovič (born 1967 in Prešov, Slovakia) is the professor of Human and Regional Geography at the University of Prešov in the Slovak Republic. He is the President of the Slovak Geographical Society since 2006 and the president (rector) of the University of Prešov since 2007. He graduated from Comenius University in Bratislava with MSc. in Geography (1990) and from University of Lodz in Poland with a PhD. in Human Geography (1997). The supervisor of his Master thesis was prof. Ján Paulov and the supervisor of his PhD. thesis was prof. Stanislaw Liszewski. He deals with urban geography, regional geography and geography of religions. He was also wisiting professor at the Institute of Sociology University of Rzeszow (2005-2007), Poland, the visiting lecturer at the Safarik University in Košice (2003-2005) and visiting professor at the Univeristé des Sciences at Technologies de Lille, France (2006). He held the lectures also at the University of Maribor, Slovenia and at the Soochow University in Taipei, Taiwan. The main research areas: geographical study of the intra-urban structures and its transformation under influences of the globalisation and postcommunist changes, regional disparities and regional development in Slovakia, demographical analysis, geography of religions and the history of the geographical thought. He published more than 190 articles and books (for instance: Geography of the Spatial Structure of the City of Prešov /1998/, The Geography of Religions /2001/, The Population Geography of Slovakia with Special Focus on the Romany Minority /2005/ - the books were published in Slovak).

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