Current affiliation
Postdoctoral Research Associate
GIS Division
University of Zurich - Irchel
Winterthurerstr. 190 CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel: +41-3-6355256
Fax: +41-44-6356848
martin.tomko[at]geo.uzh.ch
http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~mtomko
Education
- PhD. (Geomatics) 03/2008
University of Melbourne, Australia
Department of Geomatics
PhD. Thesis: Destination Descriptions in Urban Environments
Supervisors: Stephan Winter, Matt Duckham - Ing. (MSc) 06/2003
(Geodesy/geoinformatics)
Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
Faculty of Civil Engineering
Thesis: Spatial databases for Mobile GIS Applications
In cooperation with dept. of Geodesy/GIS-t, TU Delft
Supervisors: Ernest Bucko (STU Bratislava), E. Verbree (TU Delft) - Bc.
06/2000
Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
Faculty of Civil Engineering
Thesis: Handling non-graphic data in graphical information systems
Supervisor: I. Mitasova
Special qualifications
- ARCRNSISS Summer school on Spatially Integrated Social Science Theory and Methods, 12-18 February 2006, Sydney, Australia.(Chaired by Bob Stimpson and Ed Blakely), link
Awards, Scholarships and Honors
- International Geographical Union (IGU) - Commission on Geographical Information Science and ESRI Scholarship in recognition of the paper for the 12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling.
- MATS 2006 (Melbourne Abroad Travelling Scholarship), University of Melbourne: Award towards travel expenses to the 12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling and to visit the Ecole Naval in Brest, France.
- PCAS 2006 (Postgraduate Conference Award Scheme), Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne: grant towards travel expenses to the 12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling.
- CRC-SI/ University of Melbourne: Fee and living expenses scholarship for PhD studies (2004-2007).
- Dean's Award - Outstanding Master Thesis, Faculty of Civil Engineering, STU Bratislava, 2003.
- Eurotel 2001 Award - 1st prize in the University Student's contest. Topic:"Exploiting the positioning of mobile devices in the offer of mobile telephony providers" .
Committees
- COSI/DAM project, University of Melbourne (Steering Committee memeber, Postgraduate student representative), 2005-ongoing
- Slovak Institute for Standardisation Technical Committee for Geodesy (SUTN -TK89) - Geodesy and Cartography, deputy by CEN/TC 287 10/2003
Service to community (reviewing, PC memberships)
- Organiser/Chair: Adaptation in Spatial Communication 2009 at AGILE 2009
- Conferences and Workshop PC member: 2nd CAME Workshop at GIScience 2008, W2GIS 2008, Semantic Web meets Geospatial Applications at AGILE 2008 , W2GIS 2009, IF&GIS-09, Presenting Spatial Information: Granularity, Relevance, and Integration (workshop at COSIT 2009),
- Reviewer: COSIT 2007
Industry experience and Consulting
- AJAX Webmapping frontend development for online visualization of permantent GPS station data(BOM Victoria, Australia, with the Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne) 10/2006-04/2007
- Institutional Metainformation system UMIS and Geoportal - concept design and pilot project leader (GKU Bratislava) 10/2003-04/2004
- Geodan Holding - Geodan Mobile Solutions, Amsterdam (NL)
Web mapping and LBS development (internship) 11/2002-03/2003
- Sfera, a.s.
(SR) 02/1994-01/2002
- Cartographic production
- GIS pilot functionality development for XMatik
Teaching experience
- Integrated Spatial Systems 2 (Webmapping Module) (2006): Lab design and tutoring for Dr. Stephan Winter, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne
- Fundamentals of GIS (2006): Lecturing for Dr. Stephan Winter, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne (Lecture on spatial data acquisition)
- Spatial databases (2006): lab design, tutoring for Dr. Matt Duckham, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne
- Web mapping services (2005): Invited online lecture, Department of Geodesy, Slovak University of Technology
- Webmapping (2005): Lab design, tutoring and Lecturing for Dr. Stephan Winter, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne (lectures on OGC services)
- Webmapping and e-Commerce (2004): Lab design and tutoring for Dr. Stephan Winter, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne