Dusan Berek graduated with an honor in Master of Chemical Engineering from the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. He did his PhD thesis at Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague. He was employed at Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences (PI SAS) in Bratislava since 1960. He was an elected member of the Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences from 1992-1995. He served as President of the Slovak Chemical Society, Chairman of the Czecho-Slovak and Slovak National Committee of Chemistry for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and as Member of the Board of the Federation of European Chemical Societies. He is the author or co-author of two monographs on liquid chromatography and 250+ scientific papers in extenso published in refereed periodicals (150+ in the Current Contents covered Journals), and in proceedings and chapters of books, as well as 60+ patents (four of them were licensed) - cited more than 2,000 times in SCI journals and monographs. Dusan Berek graduated with an honor in Master of Chemical Engineering from the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. He did his PhD thesis at Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague. He was employed at Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences (PI SAS) in Bratislava since 1960. He was an elected member of the Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences from 1992-1995. He served as President of the Slovak Chemical Society, Chairman of the Czecho-Slovak and Slovak National Committee of Chemistry for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and as Member of the Board of the Federation of European Chemical Societies. He is the author or co-author of two monographs on liquid chromatography and 250+ scientific papers in extenso published in refereed periodicals (150+ in the Current Contents covered Journals), and in proceedings and chapters of books, as well as 60+ patents (four of them were licensed) - cited more than 2,000 times in SCI journals and monographs.

Polymer Chemistry