Profile: Richard Filčák, Mgr., MSc. PhD., Researcher

    Research Field

    • Forecasting, foresight and scenario development in the field of climate change and environment
    • Economic and social aspects of climate change mitigation  and adaptation
    • Decarbonisation strategies at national and regional level
    • Environmental justice and access to infrastructure and natural resources

    Forecasts, Prospects, Analyzes, Strategies

    • Research focused mainly on modeling and scenario analysis of how climate change will affect the economy and social context, amid the broader need for mitigation and adaptation to environmental change. The second area of activity, highly relevant to prospective studies, concerns decarbonisation strategies and approaches for the economy, their social costs, the vulnerability of people, and pathways to carbon neutrality by 2050.

    Concise Profile

    Richard Filčák is Director of the Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences and senior researcher at the Institute for Forecasting. His research and work have focused on climate change in its economic and social dimensions, research on poverty and the environment, environmental justice, and development strategies on energy, decarbonisation, and the transition to a low-carbon and circular economy. He holds master's degrees from the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, and from Lund University, Sweden. He defended his doctorate at the Central European University (CEU). He was a visiting scholar at the University of London and at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the EU in Seville. For three years he led the foresight team at the European Environment Agency (EEA) in Copenhagen, Denmark.

    He works in the field of development policy evaluation, focusing on European programs of economic and social cohesion. He coordinates and participates in APVV and Horizon 2020 projects. As expert he contributed to the planning and evaluation of ESIF programming periods. Richard is the coordinator of the Slovak National Reference Centre (NRC) for the Development of Forward-Looking Information and Services (FLIS). He leads projects and collaborates on development activities in Central Europe, the Balkans, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, and Turkey. He is a national expert for evaluation and socio-economic analysis in projects of the European Commission (DG-REGIO) and was a member of the Expert Roster for Human Development and Poverty Monitoring of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). As an external consultant, he has worked with the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), and various NGOs.

    Scientific Projects

      Selected Publishing Activity

        FILČÁK, Richard. Stuck in the Semi-Periphery? Central Europe Between Capitalism and Climate Change. Berlin : Peter Lang Verlag, 2026. 148 p. ISBN 978-3-631-93878-2 

        ŠKOBLA, Daniel - FILČÁK, Richard. Post-mining landscapes and uneven environmental justice: Roma in Rudňany, Slovakia. In Romani Studies, 2026, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 153-179. (2025: 0.7 - IF, Q3 - JCR, 0.164 - SJR, Q2 - SJR). ISSN 1528-0748. 

        FILČÁK, Richard - ŠKOBLA, Daniel. Decarbonization and the Structural Challenges of the Neoliberal State: The Case of the Coal Region in Slovakia. In Green and low-carbon economy, 2025, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 151-158. ISSN 2972-3787.

        BALÁŽ, Vladimír - DOKUPILOVÁ, Dušana - FILČÁK, Richard. Participatory multi-criteria methods for adaptation to climate change. In Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change : an international journal devoted to scientific, engineering, socio-economic and policy responses to environmental change, 2021, vol. 26, no. 4, art. no. 15. (2020: 3.583 - IF, Q2 - JCR, 0.994 - SJR, Q1 - SJR, karentované - CCC). (2021 - Current Contents). ISSN 1381-2386. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-021-09955-4 (VEGA č. 2/0002/18 : Inštitucionálne rámce ekonomického rozvoja SR v novej etape globalizácie)

        DOKUPILOVÁ, Dušana - FILČÁK, Richard. Regional disparities as roots of energy poverty in Slovakia. In Perspectives on Energy Poverty in Post-Communist Europe. - London ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2021, p. 206-221. ISBN 978-0-367-43052-8. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003000976-14

        FILČÁK, Richard - FICERI, Ondrej. Making the Ghetto at Luník IX in Slovakia: People, Landfill, and the Myth of the Urban Green Space. In Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 2021, roč. 57, č. 3, s. 293-313. (2020: 0.588 - IF, Q4 - JCR, 0.262 - SJR, Q3 - SJR, karentované - CCC). (2021 - Current Contents, SCOPUS, WOS). ISSN 0038-0288. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.13060/csr.2021.020 (APVV-17-0141 : Analýza bariér prístupu k pracovným príležitostiam pre marginalizované skupiny obyvateľstva: Vybrané regióny Slovenska v sociálno-ekonomickej, geografickej a sociálno-antropologickej perspektíve. Vega č. 2/0084/19 : Luník IX - dejiny, súčasnosť a perspektívy rómskeho sídliska)

        FILČÁK, Richard - ŠKOBLA, Daniel. Sanitation Infrastructure at the Systemic Edge: Segregated Roma Settlements and Multiple Health Risks in Slovakia. In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021, vol. 18, art. no. 6079. (2020: 3.390 - IF, Q1 - JCR, 0.747 - SJR, Q2 - SJR, karentované - CCC). (2021 - Current Contents). ISSN 1660-4601. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18116079 (APVV-17-0141 : Analýza bariér prístupu k pracovným príležitostiam pre marginalizované skupiny obyvateľstva: Vybrané regióny Slovenska v sociálno-ekonomickej, geografickej a sociálno-antropologickej perspektíve)

        FILČÁK, Richard - ROCHOVSKÁ, Alena - HORŇÁK, Marcel. Evaluation of Slovakia’s R1 expressway enhancement impacts on local socio-economic development: expert panel approach. In Geografie : sborník České geografické společnosti, 2021, roč. 126, č. 1, s. 29-53. (2020: 0.744 - IF, Q4 - JCR, 0.238 - SJR, Q3 - SJR). ISSN 1212-0014. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.37040/geografie2021126010029 (APVV-17-0141 : Analýza bariér prístupu k pracovným príležitostiam pre marginalizované skupiny obyvateľstva: Vybrané regióny Slovenska v sociálno-ekonomickej, geografickej a sociálno-antropologickej perspektíve)