The Department of Zoology, the oldest zoological institution in Slovakia, has a long-standing reputation of research and teaching institution. Research in the Department focusses on broad spectrum of zoology ranging from taxonomy, morphology and ecology, through molecular evolution and protistology, limnology and parasitology.
The Department participates in teaching at B.Sc. degree in several study programmes, mainly in programmes of the Systematic Biology, the Biology and the Didactics of Natural Sciences. The department organizes M.Sc. study of Zoology and has accredited the Ph.D. study programme Zoology. Department traditionally contributes with one of the highest share to educational activities of the faculty and its research activities belong to the most highly ranked components of the faculty.
The Head of Department is Ján Kodada.