I obtained my education in political science and international relations, nationalism studies, Jewish studies, and modern history at both Central European University (Budapest/Vienna) and Charles University (Prague).

I am currently Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, and a senior member of the Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building project.

I initiated and directed the Transdisciplinary Research Centre for the Study of Violence, Trauma, and Justice at Charles University, a research centre of excellence that brought together over twenty scholars across five faculties, facilitating interdisciplinary research.

I have been a recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, including a Marie Curie Fellowship, a Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a Felix Posen Fellowship from the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, a Gisela Fleischmann Scholarship from the Milan Simecka Foundation, a Junior Core Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Studies at Central European University, and a Senior Research Fellowship from the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. I am currently in residence at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute (February–July 2026), where I am developing my next book, Fascists into Communists, a study of how mid-level collaborators of the fascist Slovak state reinvented themselves as loyal citizens of the people's democracy after 1948, tracing the blurred lines between complicity, survival, and ambition across autocratic regimes.

I have held research fellowships at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Tel Aviv University, and the Institute for Advanced Studies, CEU. Beyond academia, I have engaged in public debates, contributed to policy-relevant research, and advocate for the role of humanities and social sciences in confronting the legacies of the twentieth century. I am the founder of Najdiexperta.cz, a public-facing expert database designed to connect social science and humanities researchers with media, civil society, and industry.

I have also done my share of service. I was a member of the faculty Academic Senate for two terms and served on the Research Council of the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Slovak Academy of Sciences. I advised on the "24.02.2022 5am: Testimonies from War" project organized by the Centre for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv), the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw), the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg, and the University of St Andrews.

In addition, I served on the Executive Committee of the European Consortium for Political Research and was a Holocaust Studies Division Co-Chair at the Association for Jewish Studies. I serve on the Editorial Board of the Holocaust in Translation book series (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2025–) and am a member of the ECPR Academic Freedom Subcommittee (2024–).

My book Christian Nationalism, Nation-Building, and the Making of the Holocaust in Slovakia (Oxford University Press, 2025) received the Bedřich Hrozný Prize from Charles University in 2026, the university’s most prestigious research award, given across all disciplines and faculties.