Assoc. Prof. Ing. Elena Hájeková, PhD. is a teacher, leader and researcher of successful research projects, who works in the scientific field of thermal and catalytic transformations of hydrocarbons into petrochemicals and in the field of preparation of motor fuels from alternative raw materials in the presence of heterogeneous catalysts. She is the author of 51 original scientific works in international peer-reviewed journals with numerous citations. She investigates products distribution and coke formation during steam cracking of hydrocarbons and cracking of waste plastics. She developed research area of feedstock recycling of waste polyalkenes using thermal/catalytic processes at Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology of STU in Bratislava.