Comenius University Rector Presents Best Dissertation Awards for 2025
Bratislava, November 13, 2025: During the solemn graduation ceremonies of Comenius University in Bratislava (CU), Rector Marek Števček presented the prestigious Rector’s Awards for the best dissertation theses. The ceremonies were held on November 12 and 13, 2025, in the CU Auditorium.
On this exceptional occasion, CU Rector Marek Števček expressed his conviction to persevere in the development of critical thinking. "In my opinion, science is first and foremost a conviction. A conviction that it makes sense to explore how and why things work, that it makes sense to examine the world so that we may make it a better place. [...] If science is a certain form of faith, let us believe that the supracritical part of the world has not definitively gone mad, that we will not find the truth with a few clicks on social media governed by the algorithms of our own bubbles, and that artificial intelligence will simply not find the answers for us, but only our own," he stated in his address.
The Rector's Awards for the best dissertation thesis in 2025 were conferred upon:
In the Field of Social Sciences: Mgr. Jana Zigo, PhD., LL.M. from the CU Faculty of Law, for the thesis Alternative Dispute Resolution of Domain Name and Its Possibility of Application to Copyright Disputes in the Online Environment.
In the Field of Humanities: Mgr. Dalibor Makovník, PhD. from the CU Faculty of Arts, for the thesis Non-Causal Explanation in Natural Sciences.
In the Field of Medical Sciences: MUDr. Katarína Tobiášová, PhD. from the CU Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, for the thesis Possibilities of Identifying Predictive Molecular-Pathological Biomarkers of Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma.
In the Field of Natural Sciences: Mgr. Claudia Čičáková, PhD. from the CU Faculty of Natural Sciences, for the thesis Electrochemical Approaches in Water Decontamination at Selected Sites of Environmental Burden.
Graduation Ceremony Schedule
The solemn graduation ceremonies for newly appointed associate professors and doctoral graduates took place across the following dates and times:
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM: Faculty of Natural Sciences (PriF CU), Faculty of Physical Education and Sports (FTVŠ CU), Roman Catholic Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology (RKCMBF CU), Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty (EBF CU).
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM: Faculty of Medicine (LF CU), Faculty of Arts (FiF CU).
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM: Faculty of Law (PraF CU), Faculty of Education (PdF CU), Faculty of Pharmacy (FaF CU), Faculty of Management (FM CU), Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences (FSEV CU).
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM: Jessenius Faculty of Medicine (JLF CU), Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics (FMFI CU).