Governance of Social Tipping Points / Key Challenges in Geography (PDF)

Dr. Jakub Szabó is a researcher at the Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Faculty of Social and Economic Studies, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. In his research, Dr. Szabó focuses on issues of comparative and international political economy with a focus on the European Union, European monetary integration as well as post-communist European Union countries, European Union economic governance and differentiation in European integration. He completed study and research stays at the Central European University in Vienna and the European University Institute in Florence. His is the first holder of the joint International Visegrad Fund and European University Institute research grant for consultation of primary sources at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence.



Dr. Paula Puskarova has been serving as the Vice-Rector for Research and Doctoral Studies at the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia as of February 2019 and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Commerce University of Economics in Bratislava. She is also the member of numerous scientific and professional councils as well as decisionmaking bodies of state governance such as the Partnership Council of the Bratislava Self-Governing Region, HELSUS University of Helsinki FInland Scientific Board, Evaluation Committee of the SASPRO2 Social Sciences and Humanities Board, Vice-Chairman of the Science Committee for the Slovak University Council, Vice-Chairman of the Council for European Cooperation of APVV Slovakia, Affiliated Member of the Institute for Central Europe Bratislava and Hugo Observatory University of Liege Belgium, and Governing Board of the Slovak Fulbright Alumni Association.



Earlier, she was a Fulright Post-Doc Research Fellow in 2015/16 and Visiting Professor at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at the Seton Hall University, New Jersey, USA in the Fall 2016/17 where she taught