Journalist and academic. As a journalist, I am interested in people's value motivations, which is why I am finishing a book about people in Slovakia who serve the country and are examples worth following (to be published in November 2024).As an academic, I focus on the clash of cultures, especially Islamic (MENA) and European, and the applied impacts that this entails - both positive and negative. I am specifically interested in migration, extremism and terrorism. I conduct field research in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, where I examine the impact of the repatriation of European foreign fighters back to Europe and the possibilities of their deradicalization. My findings from fieldwork help inform public policy or court decisions in EU countries, currently in the Slovak Republic and Germany.