Lucia Mýtna Kureková (PhD) works as a researcher at the Centre for Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on labour markets, skill formation and education systems; labour migration and migrant integration; innovative data sources; and industrial, economic and social policy. Lucia has widely published in these fields and gained research and research management experience in various international collaborative research projects, including PACES, POW-BRIDGE, STYLE, NEUJOBS, SEEMIG and ENPI. She has worked as a consultant and national expert for international organisations, including the World Bank, European Commission, CEDEFOP and OECD, on topics related to skills governance, VET, career guidance, and social inclusion. She has been an editorial board member of the Journal of Economics (Ekonomický časopis) since 2019. She is also affiliated with Central European Labor Studies Institute (CELSI), and Global Labour Organization (GLO).

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in August 2014.