Pavol completed his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at the  University of Pennsylvania in 2003 after his undergraduate studies in Condensed Matter Physics at Comenius University in Slovakia. Between 2003 and 2008 he worked as a postdoc at Michigan State University, continued as research scientist at the Columbia  University and since August 2012 is an assistant scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Pavol’s research is focused on structural analysis of materials using Pair Distribution Function techniques and on development of data analysis methods, software and computations for prying out maximum structural information from X-ray and neutron scattering data.