Assoc. prof. Dr. Katarina Valaskova teaches financial economics and risk management at the University of Zilina, Slovakia. She has long been devoted to the trilogy of fundamental financial management issues: i) prediction of the financial health of companies, ii) earnings management, and iii) quantification and diversification of risks. She has published 94 original scientific papers registered in international databases Web of Science and Scopus. 13 publications are included in the first two quartiles, several of them were published by renowned publishers such as Taylor & Francis, Springer or Elsevier. Significant scientific-research and publishing activities, documented by exact and relevant scientometric values in the research field, are confirmed not only by citations to her publications, but also by wide international cooperation or several requested lectures at international scientific conferences organized by Bucharest University of Economic Studies (Romania), South-West University Neofit Rilski (Bulgaria), WSB University (Poland), Institute of Technology and Business (Czech Republic), and OTH Regensburg (Germany). In addition to publishing and scientific research, she has been engaged in review and editorial activities, as evidenced on Publons and membership in the editorial boards of several journals registered in the SCOPUS or Web of Science databases.