Dr. Báreková is a university educator and research. She received her Ph.D. in 2009 from the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, focusing on the study of landscaping. She has been involved in the direct teaching of students through lectures and seminars focusing on landscape, environmental monitoring, waste management, community composting, waste collection systems, biodegradable waste management, and the design of urban composting facilities. Her current research interests include the composition of municipal solid waste, the environmental sustainability of waste management, climate change, green innovation, the decomposition of bioplastics in compost, and the laboratory phytotoxicity testing of composts. She is the author of several original scientific publications registered on the Web of Science/Scopus databases, monographs, university textbooks, and is currently involved in four research projects, as well as being a member of the Waste Working Group at the local government (Nitra City Hall) since 2018.