Martin Venhart was born in
Trnava. His father worked in the nearby
Bohunice Nuclear Power Plant. Although he disliked physics as a subject in primary school, his father persuaded him to pursue studied on nuclear physics, because the specialization opens up good job opportunities at the power plant. Venhart earned his PhD in Experimental nuclear physics from the
Comenius University in 2008. After a two year
post-doc at the
KU Leuven, he joined the Institute of Physics at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. In 2013, he became the head of the department of Nuclear Physics. In 2017, he was elected a member of the Presidium of the Academy. In 2011 Venhart designed the first Slovak experiment at the
ISOLDE facility at
CERN. Venhart is a member of the supervisory board of the
University of Trnava. Following the
Russian invasion of Ukraine, Venhart criticized the Slovak nuclear physicist who did not cease their cooperation with the Russian
Institute for Nuclear Research. In spite of his physics background, Venhart considers social sciences the most important scientific disciplines in the 21st century because he consider overcoming
social polarisation the most crucial challenge for the humankind. == Awards ==