Lucia Knapcikova

Biography

Lucia Knapčíková is Vice-Dean for International Relations and Mobility at the Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies (FMT) of the Technical University of Košice. In 2017 she completed her Habilitation for Associate Professor at the FMT in the field "Manufacturing Technologies". In 2011 she completed her PhD study at the above-mentioned Faculty. Assoc. Prof. Knapčíková, Ph.D., is the author more than 190 scientific papers in Slovakia and abroad and she is the owner of 6 utility models.
She participated in several international research projects, mainly in Germany. A most important project is H2020 Less Than Wagon Load (Project duration 2017-2020) in collaboration with Belgium, Germany, Netherland, Italy and Slovakia, where she´s position is the Faculty project coordinator. The project has the objective to develop a SMART specialised logistics cluster for the chemical industry in the Port of Antwerp in order to shift transport volumes from road to rail freight. Actually, she participated in project EUROSTARS (BRIDGE2ERA Program) with the collaboration of Technical University of Applied Sciences in Wildau (TH Wildau), Germany. Aim of the project is Industry 4.0 strategic orientation between universities and SME.
She lectured at the universities in Germany (TH Wildau), Czech Republic (TU Liberec) and Croatia (J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Mechanical Engineering Faculty in Slavonski Brod). Her area of interest includes SMART technologies, SMART materials, applications possibilities directly in the industry.
In the year 2018, she was awarded in the category “Personality of Science and Technology under 35 years“. The Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, in support of the development of science and technology and the recognition of the exceptional achievements in this field, awarded the Science and Technology Awards – the highest award in science and technology, for the year 2018.
She is member of European Alliance for Innovation, Belgium (www.eai.eu), TEAM Society in Croatia and an active member of the Editorial Board of Acta Tecnología Journal (Slovakia), SAR Journal (Serbia). She works as Guest Editor in the indexed journal (CC Journal) Wireless Networks-WINET.
She is a responsible person for organizing of International conferences under EAI organization- MMS 2021, MMS 2020 and previously MMS2019, MMS2018, MMS2017, MMS2016 and EAI FABULOUS 2021.