Petra Lipnicka

Petra received her Master of Science degree (Ecology and Environmental Sciences) from the Technical University of Zvolen in 1999. She has over 15 years of executive and management experience in European projects aimed at enhancing the R&D infrastructure in Slovakia and other R&D projects.

She specializes in the management of R&D, technology commercialization, tech transfer, start-ups, fundraising, and science communication. She is also the architect of a national science festival with ca. 180K visitors in a single day. Petra is a former Chairwoman and CEO of Neulogy, an innovation boutique consultancy (now part of Civitta Group). For many years, Petra managed and executed Neulogy‘s mission to help start-ups, companies, academic institutions, and research centers to conduct world-class R&D projects as well as having access to financing from both public and private sources, including seed and venture capital. She is a Chairwoman of the Board at the Slovak Organization for Research and Development Activities, an NGO supporting the research ecosystem in Slovakia.