VICE DEAN FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

In 1982, she graduated in general medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University in Bratislava. From 1982 to 1989, she was employed as a secondary doctor, and since 1989 she has been working at the Institute of Physiology of the Medical Faculty of Comenius University. In 1998, she completed her postgraduate doctoral studies in normal and pathological physiology. In 2005 she qualified as an associate professor in this field. In 2012, after the inaugural ceremony at Comenius University, she was appointed a normal and pathological physiology professor. Since 2018, she has been responsible for the medical neuroscientific doctoral study program in general medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University in Bratislava.

Thanks to a Fulbright scholarship, she completed a stay at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (2005) and, thanks to the Templeton Foundation, a stay at the University of Iowa (2008) in the USA.  From 2014 to 2018, she was a visiting professor at Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA. At the Mailman Segal Center for Human Development, she completed several stays focused on autism research. She is the responsible researcher of several research projects dealing with the aetiology of autism.

She is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and several other scientific societies. She serves as its vice-chairman on the committee of the Slovak Physiological Society.  Since 2018, she has been a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University in Brno. She received several international and national awards for her scientific and publishing activities. She is the laureate of the 2020 Crystal Wing Extraordinary Lifetime Achievement Award.

Since 2010, she has been the head of the Physiological Institute of the Faculty of Medicine, CU, where in 2013, she founded the Academic Centre for Autism Research. From 2007 to 2015, she was a vice dean for international relations at the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University. From 2015 to 2019, she was the vice-rector for international relations at Comenius University in Bratislava.