prof. RNDr. Branislav Bleha, PhD.

Demogeography division

e-mail: branislav.bleha@uniba.sk
phone: +421/2/60 296 9516
room: B1-308

Research:

Main interest in: Regional population forecasting and Population policies

Research fellowships and short-term stays(supported by): Gifu, Japan (Japan Foundation), Prague, Bremen, Southampton (Erasmus)

Invited papers and lectures(foreign only): Bucharest 2007, Worksession on Population Projections, organised by the Eurostat & UNECE
Gifu University 2011

Projects (international only):

-Member of the management team (deputy ) in the project Managing Migration and its Effects in SEE Transnational Actions Towards Evidence Based Strategies (SEEMIG, scheme South-East Europe Programme), 2012-2014

-Member of the Panel of Experts in the project Managing Migration and its Effects in SEE Transnational Actions Towards Evidence Based Strategies (SEEMIG, scheme South-East Europe Programme), 2012-2014

-Member of the COST program, Action Nr. TU0803 „Cities Regrowing Smaller“ (2011-2013)

ECHO Inovation Group Székesfehérvár - "Cross border labour commuting from Slovakia to Hungary", 2007

Thematic expert in the project YOUMIG - Improving Institutional Capacities and Fostering Cooperation to Tackle the Impacts of Transnational Youth Migration (Interreg Danube), 2017-2019

Teaching:

-Population and family policies

-Population developments in the World

-Population projections and forecasting

-Demographic theories and current research trends


Qualifications:

-Graduate of Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, field: Human Geography and Demography

-PhD study at Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, topic of PhD work: Regional Population Forecasting

-Course "Leadership training for managers" (DALE CARNEGIE, obtain 2,4CEU´s)

Career:

2003-2006: Assistant professor at Department of Human Geography and Demogeography

2006- : Head of Section of demography and demogeography

2010-2021: Associated professor at Department of Human Geography and Demogeography
2021-: Full professor at Department of Economic and Social Geography, Demography and Territorial Development

2011- : Vice-dean of the faculty responsible for development and IT



Further information:

Expert in Population Europe Network

Corresponding member of the IGU Commission on Population Geography

Vice-president of the Slovak Statistical and Demographic Society

Member of the Scientific Board, Comenius University in Bratislava (since 2011)

Member of the Editorial Board: SAGE Open

Member of the Editorial Board: Acta Geographica

Member of the Editorial Board Forum Statisticum Slovacum

Member of the Czech Demographical Society

Member of the Slovak Geographical Society



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