Bratislava Metropolitan Area
Seven monographs. Nearly 500 citations. Twenty years asking questions about human agency, identity, and dignity. And now—building AI systems that put those questions to the test. I'm a professor at Comenius University in Bratislava, where I've spent two decades at the intersection of philosophical ethics, Christian theology, philosophy of religion and emerging technologies. My recent work on transhumanism and AI ethics (including a Templeton Foundation project on "imago Dei" theologies) led me to a realization: the questions philosophers have been asking for centuries—What constitutes authentic agency? How does memory constitute identity? Can virtue be learned?—now have implementation pathways through agentic AI. So I started building. In 2025, I completed an intensive AI Agents certification covering LangChain, LangGraph, Model Context Protocol, multi-agent coordination, and reinforcement learning. Not to become a software engineer, but to engage AI development from within. Most philosophers critiquing AI can't read the code they're evaluating. Most developers building AI don't know the philosophical traditions addressing the questions their systems raise. I work in both worlds. Sometimes uncomfortably. But that's precisely where the interesting work happens. What I'm currently building: • Grant discovery agents for humanities researchers • "Narrative agents" with Ricoeurian memory architectures • MCP servers for tool-augmented reasoning • Workflow automation with ethical guardrails What I bring to conversations: • Deep expertise in AI ethics, transhumanism, and theological anthropology • Technical fluency in agentic AI frameworks • Policy experience (Slovakia's National Contact Point for UNESCO IRCAI; Member, Ministry of Investments' AI Ethics Committee) • International research networks across Europe, Asia, and North America The task before us is not choosing between philosophy and code. It's refusing the false dichotomy. Open to: research collaborations, speaking engagements, advisory roles, and conversations about building AI systems that take human dignity seriously.
Teaching and research at the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty, focusing on AI and transhumanism from an ethical perspective, philosophy of religion, and Christian personalism. Current Focus: Beyond traditional academic work, I'm actively developing AI agents and exploring the practical implementation of ethical principles in autonomous systems. This involves hands-on work with LangChain, LangGraph, Model Context Protocol, and reinforcement learning—translating two decades of philosophical inquiry into executable code. Key Projects: • Principal Investigator, Templeton Foundation grant: "The Future of Imago Dei Theologies in the Context of the New Challenges of Transhumanism" (2021-2023) • Principal Investigator, KEGA project: "Leonard Stöckel – Teacher of Hungary" (2022-2025) • National Contact Point for Slovakia, UNESCO IRCAI (since 2023) • Member, Permanent Committee for Ethics and AI Regulation, Slovak Ministry of Investments Research Output: 175 publications, 496 citations (420 WoS), h-index 12. Associate Editor of Bogoslovni Vestnik; Editorial Board of European Journal of Science and Theology, Constantine's Letters.
Senior research fellowship at the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies (PIASt), examining the role of religion and interreligious dialogue in secular societies—a comparative study of Poland and Slovakia.
Besides being the Department head, I hold the position of Associate Professor of Ethics at Faculty of Arts in Nitra and a part-time position as Professor of Religious Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Žilina.
Teacher and Researcher in the field of Systematic Theology and Church History