Silvia Kohnová, is a professor at the Department of Land and Water Resources Management, SvF SUT in Bratislava. She is specializes in the assessment of hydrological processes, flood evaluation methods, the regionalization, flood frequency analysis and estimation of design values of extreme precipitation and discharges. She is the author and co-author of scientific papers published in high ranked journals (e.g. Nature, Science, Nature Geoscience). The number of publications (status 2/2024) in the WOS database is 84, in the SCOPUS 117, h-index 22. Number of citations (without self-citation of all co-authors) in the WOS, SCOPUS is 3544. Her research is summarized e.g. in monographs: Analysis of maximum precipitation totals in the upper Hron river basin (2005), Regional methods for prediction in ungauged basins (2006), Landscape engineering: selected problems (2015). In 2004 she received the SAS Award for scientific and research activities in 2004 in cooperation with universities; the Literary Fund Premium for Scientific and Professional Literature in 2005 in the category of natural and technical sciences and Medal of Akademik Dub in 2011. In 2018, the Rector of STU awarded her for the Science journal publication, and in 2020 for publication in the Nature journal. Memberships other than those listed in the form: Member of the doctoral study in Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management and in Landscaping at the STU in Bratislava; Member of the group of experts for the assessment of international projects; Member of the European Geophysical Union (EGS); Member of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS); Slovak delegate to the Management Committee COST Action Floodfreq 2010-2015, COST Action Land4Flood 2017-2021, COST Action PROCLIAS since 2020 and COST FutureMed since 2023; and Member of the Academic Senate of SvF SUT Bratislava since 2015-2023.