I served as the principal investigator in one international grant (Regional Studies Association) and two domestically-funded research projects (APVV, VEGA), among others. I participated as senior researcher in one Horizon 2020 project and several international (Poland, Czechia) and national projects (APVV, VEGA). 

The list of major research projects I am currently member of is following:

• COST Action, CA21133, period: 2022-2026, Title of Research Project: Globalization, Illicit Trade, Sustainability and Security (GLITSS)

• Czech Science Foundation GACR, GA25-17638S, period: 2025-2027, Title of Research Project: Geopolitical risks, pandemics, and macro-financial stability

• National Bank of Slovakia, GV-2022-4-P15-Z2, period: 2023-2025, Title of Research Project: The Role of Exchange Rate Channel in the Transmission of Monetary Policy: The Case of Standard and Non-standard Monetary Policies (ROLEX)

Notable achievements include:

• awarded by the Martin Filko Prize 2024 for the  contribution to the economic research in Slovakia by the Slovak Economic Association.

• awarded by the 1st prize in the Young Researcher up to 35 Years Competition 2020 by the Slovak Academy of Sciences in the field of Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts, and Culture for series of articles on illicit capital flows and macroeconomic imbalances.

• papers awarded by the best paper prize by the University of Economics in Bratislava: 2019 (Nemethova - Siranova - Sipikal: Public support for firms in lagging regions - Evaluation of innovation subsidy in Slovakia), 2018 (Horvath - Kotlebova - Siranova: Interest Rate Pass-Through in the Euro Area: Financial Fragmetation, Balance Sheet Policies and Negative Rates)

• papers listed among top publications at the Institute of Economic Research of the Slovak Academy: 2023 (Cupak - Siranova; Domonkos - Fisera - Siranova), 2021 (Siranova - Workie Tiruneh - Fisera), 2018 (Siranova - Radvansky), 2017 (Domonkos - Ostrihon - Sikulova - Siranova).   

• co-authored papers short-listed for INFER Annual Conference main prizes: 2022 (Siranova - Workie Tiruneh - Konig: Abnormal FDI as a driver of sudden stop episodes), 2018 (Tura-Gawron - Siranova - Flisikowski: What are the drivers of consumer inflation expectations in European Union? The results of spatial panel regressions models)  

• co-authored paper (Kotlebova, J.) "Ukraine as a Possible Growth Pole EU28 Economic Region" awarded by the Best Paper Award of 4th  Winter Seminar of Regional Science organized by ERSA (European Regional Science Association) in Slovakia, 2014. 

June-November 2022 (National Bank of Slovakia) - visiting researcher & cooperation with Andrej Cupak; January 2020 (IES Charles University in Prague) - cooperation with prof. Roman Horvath; November 2017 & January 2018 (Gdansk University of Technology) - cooperation with Karolina Gawron-Tura;  January 2016 (University of Bangor, United Kingdom) - invitation by prof. Philippe Molyneux;  January - June 2015 (Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland) - visiting researcher under supervision of prof. Ugo Panizza; May - August 2013 (University of Porto, Portugal) - visiting researcher, cooperation with Dr. Manuel Duarte Rocha.

I served as referee for several economics and finance journals including International Review of Financial Analysis; Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money; Economic Systems; Economic Modelling; Empirical Economics; Applied Economics; Emerging Markets Finance and Trade; Quarterly Review of Economics & Finance; Eastern European Economics; Technological Forecasting & Social Change; Czech Journal of Economics and Finance; Ekonomicky casopis (Economic Journal).