Lenka Hagarová

received her PhD degree in 2021 in Earth Resources Acquisition and Processing at the Technical University in Košice (Slovakia). Her PhD thesis dealt with the diversity of culturable and non-culturable bacteria in matrices contaminated with metals and organic pollutants.

Currently, she works as a research fellow at the Institute of Geotechnics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in the Department of Mineral Biotechnology, where she focuses on the development of mine water treatment and the recovery of primary and secondary raw materials.