has over 20 years of experience in the area of higher education (HE) and research policies. She started as a student leader. She conducts research in HE policies and holds PhD from CEU in Vienna.

In the Slovak Accreditation Agency for HE she led the biggest student satisfaction survey satisfaction in Slovakia. She served as advisor to two Prime Ministers (I. Radičová, E. Heger), junior minister of education (M. Fedák) and to different political parties.

She manages projects – the biggest: the World Bank Loan – enhancing HR capacity in the labour and education sectors (5 mil. eur) and Learning Makes Sense (1,5 mil. euro) – proposed the reform from preschool to tertiary education. She has regular public appearances.

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.

works on financial law and public finance as a lawyer as well as a university lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava.

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the Comenius University in Bratislava and the Faculty of National Economy of the Economics University in Bratislava and has been active in university teaching since 2009. Matej is  author of several dozen scientific and professional publications in the field of financial law and public finance.

He is a member of the Commission for Law Making at the Constitutional Law Committee of the National Council of the Slovak Republic for the field of financial law. Matej regularly lectures and consults on legislative and practical issues with professional associations, courts and the financial administration.

is a leading Slovak researcher in computer science and artificial intelligence focusing on human-computer interaction analysis and user modeling. In 2020, she founded the Kempelen institute of intelligent technologies (KInIT), an independent and non-profit research institute  connecting academia and industry.

Her activities contribute to the circulation of talent and to getting Slovakia on the European AI map. She was a member of the European Commission’s Joint Research Center Board of Governors and the High Level Expert Group on AI.

Prior to KInIT, Maria was a full professor at the Slovak University of Technology, dean and a lead of the PeWe research group (pewe.sk).

focuses on the labour market, and educational policy-related topics, such as active labour market and training program evaluation, as well as analysing and predicting labour market skills needs.

He has more than 15 years of experience in economic and social research with a strong emphasis on empirical research. Miroslav currently serves as the director of the Institute of Economic Research of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Within Slovakia, he is actively participating in the creation of strategic documents related to public employment services, VET and educational policies. As a member of various advisory boards, he contributes to evaluations of several strategic documents in his field of expertise. His strength lies in processing micro-level data, designing indicators, extracting policy-relevant information and drawing practical recommendations.

his primary research interests span economic policy, labor and population economics, migration, EU mobility, ethnicity, and reforms in European labor markets, on which he has published extensively in leading international journals and publishers. 

Martin is a professor and former Dean/Head at the School/Department of Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Vienna. Founder and Scientific Director of CELSI, Bratislava. Elected member and Chairperson of Section Committee “Economics, Business and Management Sciences” of Academia Europaea. 

His current and previous research and teaching appointments include the University of Economics in Bratislava; Harvard University; United Nations University in Maastricht; Bonn University; Bruegel; and IZA. Martin has served in many advisory roles for European institutions, national governments, and international organizations.

leads the Centre for Scholarship and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University Bratislava where she also serves as an associate professor in the Department of Pedagogy.

She is a graduate of Oxford University (2012, MSc. in Education) and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2019). Since 2003, she organises workshops and development courses for higher education teachers.

Gabriela has served as leader of three Erasmus+ Strategic/Cooperation partnership projects in the area of academic development, internationalisation, peer learning and mental health. Her academic publications resulted in more than 470 citations (scholar.google). She is a Board of Trustees’ member of the University of Trnava.

focuses on research in building and room acoustics, and on solving questions related to sound perception by people. Monika is a professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, STU in Bratislava and the Faculty of Architecture of KU Leuven in Belgium where she serves also as the head of the Design and Engineering of Construction and Architecture, Sint-Lucas Brussels and Ghent Campuses. 

She is the author of over 120 scientific publications in the Scopus database, with over 800 citations. During her career, she coordinated several research projects, currently e.g. HORIZON-MSCA-DN “ActaReBuild” (2.5 million EUR).

She trained 9 doctoral students and currently, 8 work under her supervision. In the past, she was the chairwoman of the European Technical Commission for Building and Room Acoustics and a member of the board of the Belgian and Dutch Acoustical Society. Since 2017, she has been the president of the Slovak Acoustic Society. In May 2016, she received the award of Female Scientist of the Year 2015 in Slovakia and in 2016 she presented at the TEDx Bratislava conference.

researches epidemiology of communicable and noncommunicable diseases. Alexandra is a professor of epidemiology. She leads the Institute of Epidemiology and serves as a vice-dean at the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University in Bratislava. She authored many scientific publications, more than 120 are listed in the Web of Science, having over 50,000 citations.

Alexandra is a member of the international work group Global Burden of Disease and the Council of the Government of the Slovak Republic on Mental Health. She coordinates the Slovak training site of applied epidemiology of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. 

Alexandra completed research stays at the University of California in Berkeley, the George Washington University and the Georgetown University, in the USA. She has led national and international research projects, financed by grant schemes of the European Commission, World Health Organization, Slovak Research and Development Agency, VEGA and others.

his research and teaching focuses on the problems of building and room acoustics and the subjective perception of sound. Vojtech works as an associate professor at the Department of Materials Engineering and Physics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, STU in Bratislava. He has been a representative of STU in a consortium of several international projects.

He is currently a project manager in the HORIZON – MSCA – 2021 – DN “ActaReBuild” project and leads 4 Ph.D. students dealing with issues of acoustic comfort in outdoor and indoor environments. Since 2017, he has been the secretary of the Slovak Acoustic Society.

Vojtech is the author of several dozen publications in the field of building acoustics, room acoustics, and sound perception.

General Director of the Biomedical Reasearch Center of the Slovak Academy of Science.

is an economist, scientist, and innovator. He is the CEO of Zhiva, a startup focused on behavioral health interventions with an emphasis on management of chronic diseases.

He is coordinator of the European Commission’s network of experts on the economics of education, an adjunct professor at Sciences Po in Paris, and a columnist for daily SME. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of St Andrews and has served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies.

He co-founded the Institute of Public Policy at the Comenius University’s Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, where he was an associate professor until 2014.