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Robert Mistrík

Robert Mistrík

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Robert Mistrík (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈrɔbert ˈmistriːk], born 13 August 1966) is a Slovak chemist, scientist, businessman, and politician.[1][2]

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Early life

Mistrík was born on 13 August 1966 in Banská Bystrica.[3] He attended Gymnázium Jozefa Gregora Tajovského in Banská Bystrica. In 1991, he graduated with a degree in Analytical Chemistry from the Faculty of Chemical Technology of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.[4] After completing a PhD at the University of Vienna in 1994,[5] Mistrík continued his scientific career as a visiting scholar at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Early career

In 1998, Mistrík founded the mass spectrometry, metabolomics and chemical analysis firm HighChem, which he still manages.[6] Mistrík served as a member of the scientific steering committee in the METAcancer consortium, focused on the search for breast cancer biomarkers.[7] He is the author of a patent for the identification of small molecules, including novel diagnostic markers of insidious diseases,[8] as well as Mass Frontier software.[9]

On 3 February 2009, Mistrík became the laureate of the scientific award "Head of the Year" for the most significant innovation.[10] In 2014, he was re-elected director by members of the international Metabolomics Society.[11]

Mistrík leads the development of a cloud-based spectral tree database called mzCloud,[12] which enables the identification of multiple scientific problems.[13] He is also the co-author of the method of searching mass spectra via Google, published in Nature Biotechnology.[14] It was an achievement that a scientist from a Slovak institution managed after 14 years.[15]

Political career

Freedom and Solidarity

In 2009, Mistrík co-founded Freedom and Solidarity as a member of the preparatory committee.[4] He was a member of the party until 2012.[16]

2019 Slovak presidential election

On 15 May 2018, Mistrík announced his candidacy as President of Slovakia in the 2019 Slovak presidential election,[17] only to rule out after the announcement of Zuzana Čaputová as new President of Slovakia.[18]

Doping of Matej Tóth

In 2017, Mistrík was accused of doping by Slovak race walker Matej Tóth.[19] Mistrík also led a domestic public presentation of expert arguments proving Tóth's innocence, who was cleared of all suspicions and cleared by the IAAF.[20]

References

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    Horák, Otakar (14 December 2016). "Chemik Robert Mistrík: Človek nikdy nepochopí, ako funguje život v tele". Denník N (in Slovak). Bratislava: N Press. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
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    "Presidential survey: Which candidates would stand a chance?". The Slovak Spectator. Bratislava: Petit Press. 11 September 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
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    "O mne". Robert Mistrík Official Website (in Slovak). Archived from the original on 11 May 2018.
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    Mikušovič, Dušan (16 May 2018). "Prezidentský kandidát Robert Mistrík: Do politiky ma dostala skúsenosť s mafiou, chcem bojovať o právny štát". Denník N (in Slovak). Bratislava: N Press. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
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    "Mistrík, Robert". University of Vienna (in German). Retrieved 6 February 2019.
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    Legéň, Marek (6 August 2019). "Mistríkov rozprávkový zárobok? Podľa expertov nič neobvyklé". Denník N (in Slovak). Bratislava: N Press. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
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    Bartošovičová, Marta (7 December 2016). "Medzinárodný úspech slovenského vedca Róberta Mistríka". Veda Na Dosah (in Slovak). Retrieved 18 July 2018.
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    "Ako Slováci mapujú molekuly človeka, sledujte diskusiu naživo". SME (in Slovak). Bratislava: Petit Press. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
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    "Eurotox 2017 | Dr. Robert Mistrik | Founder and CEO HighChem" (PDF). Eurotox 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 December 2017.
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    "Prvý ročník súťaže Hlava roka má svojich víťazov". vedatechnika.sk (in Slovak). 3 February 2009. Archived from the original on 19 June 2018.
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    "Metabolomics 2016: 12th Annual Meeting of the Metabolomics Society" (PDF). Metabolomics 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
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    "2014 CoSMoS Schedule". Cosmos Science. 11 August 2014. Archived from the original on 27 December 2017.
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    Horváth, Veronika (21 March 2017). "Slovenský vedec Róbert Mistrík vyvíja, spolu so svojím tímom, cloudovú databázu, ktorá v budúcnosti zmení liečbu chorôb". startitup.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 19 June 2018.
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    "Splash, a hashed identifier for mass spectra". nature.com. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
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    Novota, Michal (9 December 2016). "O našom mozgu vieme menej ako o vesmíre". Týždeň (in Slovak). Bratislava: W Press. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
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    "Register extract of Political Parties and Political Movements". Ministry of the Interior of Slovakia. 8 April 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
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    "Researcher Robert Mistrík will run for president". The Slovak Spectator. Bratislava: Petit Press. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
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    Slin, Martin; Dedinský, Matej; Hanák, Peter (26 February 2019). "Robert Mistrík končí v prezidentských voľbách. Podporí Zuzanu Čaputovú". Aktuality.sk (in Slovak). Bratislava: Ringier Axel Springier Slovakia. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
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    Komár, Pavol (4 October 2017). "Opierali sme sa o vedeckosť, zdôrazňuje člen Tóthovho tímu". Pravda (in Slovak). Bratislava: Perex. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
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    Červený, Michal (21 December 2017). "Matej Tóth je definitívne očistený, opäť môže súťažiť". Denník N (in Slovak). Bratislava: N Press. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
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