Jakub Drábik, PhD.

Historian

He studied history and completed his doctorate at Charles University in Prague in 2014. He is mainly interested in comparative fascism studies but covering a broad range of topics from 20th Century history in his research and teaching.

Pavol Hardoš, PhD.

Political Scientist

He is also active as a columnist writing for SME.sk daily and jeToTak.sk in the fields of political science, political theory, and contemporary events.

Oto Hudec

University professor

He studied statistical methods and theory of systems at the universities in Bratislava, Košice, and Prague. In his scientific and research work, he specializes in regional and local politics, innovation systems, strategic planning, and creative economics.

Michal Hvorecký

Writer/Translator

He writes short stories, novels, and blogs. His books were published in five languages.

Marián Jaslovský

Publicist/Journalist/Social Media Expert

He has been writing for dozens of media outlets, some of which he co-founded. He authored four successful books. For 35 years he has been active as a musician, performing with dozens of various artists. He co-founded the first professional online magazine – inZine.

Mgr. Tomáš Kriššák

Consultant for strategic communication/political scientist/activist

He currently works as a communications consultant at Gerulata technologies, also serves as a moderator in the #somtu initiative, is behind the Self-Conscious Slovakia project, and is actively involved in raising media literacy among the Slovak public.

Matúš Ritomský

Artist

He is the founder and editor at priestori.sk magazine. He makes his living as a freelance artist, leading a group of professional dancers. He founded the Argolla productions artistic agency, at which he is a creative producer.

MUDr. Maroš Rudnay, PhD.

Doctor

He studied medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Pavel Jozef Šafárik University. During his studies, he was involved in the student scientific research in the field of endocrinology and internal medicine. He worked at the Institute of Anatomy where, as a student assistant, he led the practical trainingin autopsy.

Miroslava Sawiris, M.A.

Research Fellow

As a team member of Democracy & Resilience Programme at GLOBSEC Policy Institute, she analyses subversive efforts to undermine democratic societies as well as strategies, actors and tools utilised in influence operations.

Eduard Stloukal, PhD.

Biologist

Since graduating from the Comenius University and finishing his studies in the Netherlands, he has been specializing in the research in systematics, diversity and ecology of aquatic organisms, development of information technology in the field of animal diversity and lecturing at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University.

Filip Struhárik

Journalist

He is the editor at Denník N and author of the weekly newsletter MediaBrífing about the media, journalism, and internet. Previously, he worked at SME.sk. He was several times nominated for Novinárska cena (Journalist Award) and he received honorable mention for his contribution to the development of digital media and online journalism.

Dávid Tvrdoň

Journalist

During his studies at the Comenius University in Bratislava he started working as a project manager for SME.sk where he has been also active as a journalist at the data journalism section and as a project manager for social networks.

Marína Zavacká, PhD.

Historian

She studied history and philosophy at the Comenius University and modern history at the Central European University. She specializes in the history of propaganda and in the broader context of building regime loyalties, including the history of manipulation of the historical memory.

Juraj Mýtny

Marketing Specialist

Tomáš Zálešák, PhD.

Teacher

Mgr. Juraj Smatana

Secondary School Teacher

Martin Mác

CEO, Zoznam

Zuzana Panczová, PhD.

Ethnologist

Researcher focusing on contemporary narratives, especially rumours, conspiracy theories, and contemporary legends.

Dominika Hajdu

Policy analyst

Studied EU foreign policy at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Since 2017, she has been working in think tank GLOBSEC where she focuses on strategic communication and both domestic and foreign influences undermining democratic standards and principles.

Alexandra Alvarová

Expert on disinformation

She is the author of books on information warfare and numerous studies, essays and articles on media theory and propaganda.

prof. MUDr. Mgr. Miloš Jeseňák, PhD., MBA

Immunologist

He is an immunologist specializing in rare immune diseases of childhood and adulthood and a professor in paediatrics. 

Jakub Šimko, PhD.

Expert in AI and disinformation

He is a researcher in the areas of artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, human computation, crowdsourcing, and human-artificial intelligence symbiosis. His research domain is combating disinformation.

Jakub Šrol, PhD.

Psychologist

He is a researcher at the Institute of Experimental Psychology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, where he mainly examines psychological mechanisms of conspiracy theory perception and social consequences of the spread of disinformation in society.