He is Director of the Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and a researcher at its Institute for Forecasting. His research focuses on climate change in its economic and social dimensions, poverty and the environment, environmental justice, and development strategies in the fields of energy, decarbonisation and the transition to a low-carbon and circular economy. He studied at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava and at Lund University in Sweden, where he obtained Master’s degrees. He completed his doctorate at Central European University (CEU). He has worked as a visiting researcher at the University of London and at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Seville. For three years, he led the foresight team at the European Environment Agency (EEA) in Copenhagen. He is also involved in the evaluation of development policies, with a particular focus on European economic and social cohesion programmes. He coordinates and participates in research projects and contributes to the evaluation and planning of European Structural and Investment Funds programming periods. He serves as coordinator of the Slovak National Reference Centre for Forward-Looking Information and Services (FLIS). His international work includes development projects and activities across Central Europe, the Balkans, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia and Türkiye. He has served as a national expert on evaluation and socio-economic analysis for European Commission projects and as a member of the UNDP Expert Panel on Human Development and Poverty Monitoring. As an external consultant, he has also worked with the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Programme, the European Environmental Bureau and a range of non-governmental organisations.