Lab Director

Dr. Karol Putyera
Director of Analytical Services, New York

Dr. Putyera started to work for Shiva Technologies, Inc. in 1992 as a part-time GDMS analyst while being a Research Associate in the L.C. Smith College of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Syracuse University NY, from 1992-1995.

After completing his JSPS fellowship at Chiba University in Japan Dr. Putyera joined Shiva full-time as technical manager and subsequently held positions in the company as Director of Advanced Technology Group, General Manager Shiva West, Laboratory Director, Vice President for Business and Technology Development and most recently President of Shiva Technologies, Inc. and Shiva Technologies Europe.

Dr. Putyera completed his BS and M.S. degrees in Physical Chemistry at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic in 1983 and 1985, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Inorganic Chemistry in 1991 at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic.

Publications

• Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 5 Volumes, editors: James A. Schwarz, Cristian Contescu and Karol Putyera, Taylor and Francis LLC, Marcel Dekker Inc., 2004.

• Elemental Survey Analysis of Refractory Metal Base Powders Using Glow-Discharge Mass Spectrometry - Putyera, K. and Sathyamurthy, D., P/M Science & Technology Briefs, 2002: 22, p. 17-20.

• Depth Profiling of Hf-Doped Aluminide Coating by Glow-Discharge Mass Spectrometry - He L. M.; Putyera K.; Meyer J. D.; Walker L. R.; Lee W. Y., Metall. Mater. Trans. A, 2002: A33, p. 3578-3582.

• Modeling of Nontraditional Structures of Carbon - Scholtzova, E., Turi Nagy, L. and Putyera, K., Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 2001. 41(2): p. 451-456.

• Depth Profile and Quantitative Trace Element Analysis of Diffusion Aluminided Type Layers on Ni-Base Superalloys Using High-Resolution Glow-Discharge Mass Spectrometry - Spitsberg, I. and Putyera, K., Surface and Coatings Technology, 2001. 139(1): p. 35-43.

• Measurement of Hydrogen and Deuterium Concentration in Gold Electroplated Layer by Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry – Efimov, A., Kasik, M., Putyera, K. and Moreau, O., Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, 2000. 3(10): p. 477-479.