Peter Hockicko was born in Levoča, Slovakia, in February 1973. He received the M.Sc. degree (distinction) from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, in 1996. He defended his Ph.D. theses in the field of physics of condensed matter and acoustics in 2008 and the thesis title was “Study of relaxation processes in matter using acoustic methods.” From 1999 to 2012, he worked as a Tutor, a Lecturer, and a Researcher with the Department of Physics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Žilina, where he has been working as an Associate Professor, since 2013. His scientific research interest includes relaxation processes in materials.