works on anti-corruption policy, political-administrative relations, and behavioral experiments in the public sector. She authored several dozens of scientific and professional publications in these fields.

Emília is professor at the Institute of Public Policy (IPP) at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava. She has completed several study stays, such as at Georgetown University, Yale University, Harvard University, and at the World Bank.

She worked as a researcher at CPHR; from 1998 to 2009, she served as the president of Transparency International Slovakia. She is a co-founder of the Behavioral Lab of IPP. She cooperates with the healthcare start-up Zhiva.