Roman Martoňák obtained his PhD degree in Condensed matter physics in 1993 from the International school for advanced studies, Trieste Italy, under supervision of Prof. Erio Tosatti. He continued his career as postdoc in groups of Prof. K. Binder at the Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany and further in the group of Prof. M.

Parrinello at the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany and later at ETH Zurich, Lugano, Switzerland. His interests were focused in computational physics, including classical and path integral MC and ab initio MD simulations of various systems. He is one of the authors (together with A. Laio and M. Parrinello) of the metadynamics-based approach to simulations of pressure-induced structural transitions in crystals (2003) which has been applied to a number of systems. In 2005 he obtained habilitation in the field of Computational Physics from ETH Zurich.

 In 2006 he returned to Slovakia where he became Associate Professor of Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of the Comenius University in Bratislava. In 2014 he became Full Professor of Physics. Currently he works in the field of simulations of high-pressure structural transitions in solids and liquids, with focus on microscopic transition mechanisms and nucleation.