Research and scientific profile

Fields of interest: performance assessment in banking, measurement of financial intermediation, data envelopment analysis (applications and methodology), Okun's law (applications and methodology), financial health prediction.

Current scientific projects: VEGA project # 1/0053/22 Spatial and structural disaggregation of Okun's law and the Phillips curve (principal investigator, 2022 – 2024), VEGA project # 1/0442/22 New DEA models applicable for regulatory purposes in financial and network industries (deputy investigator, 2022 – 2024)

Service to the academic community and cooperation

Journals: Forum Statisticum Slovacum, Slovak Statistical and Demographic Society, Slovakia (editor, 2018 - 2023), Journal of Mathematical Extension, Islamic Azad University, Iran (editorial board member)

Reviews: Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Economic Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, Central European Journal of Operations Research, Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Sage Open, Asian Journal of Economics and Banking, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, International Journal of Emerging Markets, Economic Modelling, Ekonomický časopis, E+M Ekonomie a Management, Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal, Economic Change and Restructuring, International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, Technological and Economic Development of Economy, Journal of Mathematical Extension, Iranian Journal of Management Studies, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Bulletin of Economic Research, Spatial Economic Analysis, Inquiry, and others

Conferences: Applications of Mathematics and Statistics in Economics (AMSE) 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 (scientific committee member), Fernstat 2011, 2016, 2018 (scientific committee member), Economic Theory and Practice (ETAP) 2017 (scientific committee member), International Days of Statistics and Economics (MSED) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 (scientific committee member)

Memberships: Federation of European National Statistical Societies / FENStatS (executive committee member, webmaster, since 2023), Slovak Statistical and Demographic Society (scientific secretary, since 2019; vice president for international relations since 2023, member since 2009), Czech Society for Operations Research (member, since 2015)