Associate Professor at the Institute of Marketing, Trade and Social Studies: her professional background is applied rural sociology/sociology of agriculture. She is a head of the Section for Rural Sociology and Sociology of Agriculture in the Slovak Sociological Society at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. She has been coordinating several research and educational projects both on national (e.g. within the Operational Programme Research and Development, OP Education, and Rural Development Programme of the SR) and international level (e.g. FP7, Interreg DTP, H2020, Horizon Europe, etc.).