Education and Professional Qualifications
2023 – PhD in Sociology, Comenius University in Bratislava.
Professional Activities
Since 02/2024 – Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Trnava University in Trnava.
Since 05/2024 – Senior State Advisor, Research and Innovation Authority (VAIA).
07/2022–12/2023 – Senior State Advisor, Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic.
01/2019–11/2020 – Project Assistant, Trnava University in Trnava.
Selected Publications
Moreno, Carolina et al. (2020).Communication role on perception and beliefs of EU citizens about science. Brussels: CONCISE's Policy Brief. CONCISE consortium
Rubin, A., Pellegrini, G., and Šottník, L.: Role of Science Communication in beliefs, perceptions and knowledge of science and technology issues among European citizens, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-2943, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-2943, 2020
Šottník, Ľ. (2020). Zuzana Maďarová: Ako odvrávať novembru 1989. Rodové aspekty pamäti. Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review, 52(2), 203-204. 0049-1225.
Šottník, Ľ. (2020). Automation, innovation and economic crisis – surviving the fourth industrial revolution: by Jon-Arild Johannessen, Abingdon, UK, Routledge, 2018, 100 pp., $98.56 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-351-03986-4. The Social Science Journal, 58(3), 400–401. https://doi.org/10.1080/03623319.2020.1795523
Šottník, Ľ. (2019). Georg Simmel: Rembrandt. Umelecko-filozofická esej. Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review, 51(4), 450-452. 0049-1225.
Participation in Research Projects
2020–2022 – VEGA 2/0105/20: International Student Mobility, Cultural Capital and Intergenerational Social Mobility: Conscious Strategies and Unintended Consequences.
2018–2020 – CONCISE: Communication Role on Perception and Beliefs of EU Citizens about Science. European Union Horizon 2020 project, Grant Agreement No. 824537. Team member.
2018–2020 – PERSIST_EU: Knowledge, Beliefs, and Perceptions about Science among European Students. Project No.: 2018-1-ES01-KA0203-050827. Erasmus+. Team member.
Teaching Activities
Methods of Sociological Research I, II, III
Statistics I, II
Sociological Practice