Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
Mgr. Donald Wertlen, PhD.
Document type:
Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:
Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:
Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Wertlen
I.2 - Name
Donald
I.3 - Degrees
Mgr., PhD.
I.4 - Year of birth
1993
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Institute of European Studies and International relations, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava "
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Mlynské luhy 4, 821 05 Bratislava
I.7 - Position
external lecturer
I.8 - E-mail address
donald.wertlen@fses.uniba.sk
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Political Science
I.11 - ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1263-4540

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences
II.b - Year
2017
II.c - Study field and programme
Political Science
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences
II.b - Year
2019
II.c - Study field and programme
Political Science
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences
II.b - Year
2022
II.c - Study field and programme
Political Science
II.4 - Associate professor
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
quality officer Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University 2022-
Vice-Dean for Study Affairs Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University 2022-
External lecturer Institute of European Studies and International Relations, FSES CU

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses
V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
2
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
2
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
0
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
9
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
7
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
0
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.5.a - Name of the course V.5.b - Study programme V.5.c - Degree V.5.d - Field of study
EU Environmental Policy and Climate Action European Studies I. Political Science
Contemporary Challenges: Greening of EU Policies European Studies II. Political Science

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations
VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
8
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
7
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
3
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
3
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
9
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
9
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
5
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
5
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
1
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
1
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

 May energy justice enhance human rights protection in the European Union? / Mokrá, Lucia [Autor, 50%] ; Wertlen, Donald [Autor, 50%]. – [recenzované]. – DOI 10.46282/blr.2025.9.1.1027. – WOS CC ; SCO ; ESCI.

In: Bratislava law review [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] : semi-annual scholarly legal journal of Faculty of law, Comenius University in Bratislava. – Bratislava (Slovensko) : Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave. Právnická fakulta UK. – ISSN 2585-7088. – ISSN (online) 2644-6359. – Roč. 9, č. 1 (2025), s. 151-166 [tlačená forma] [online]

2

 Understanding the environmental and climate elements of EU space policy / Wertlen, Bibiana [Autor, 50%] ; Wertlen, Donald [Autor, 50%]. – WOS CC.

In: European journal of transformation studies [elektronický dokument] . – Tbilisi (Gruzínsko) : Europe Our House Press. – ISSN (online) 2298-0997. – Roč. 9, č. 1 (2021), s. 47-57 [online]

3

 The Europeanisation of energy policy – What scenario for effective institutionalism? / Wertlen, Donald [Autor, 50%] ; Mokrá, Lucia [Autor, 50%]. – SCO.

In: European studies [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] : the review of European law, economics and politics / Šišková, Naděžda [Zostavovateľ, editor]. – [recenzované]. – 1. vyd. – Roč. 7. – Praha (Česko) : Wolters Kluwer, 2020. – ISBN 978-80-7676-017-2. – ISSN 1805-8809. – ISSN (online) 2464-6695, s. 154-173 [tlačená forma] [online]

4

 EU human rights approach in climate change and energy transition – call for sustainable development? / Mokrá, Lucia [Autor, 50%] ; Wertlen, Donald [Autor, 50%]. – SCO.

In: European studies [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] : the review of European law, economics and politics / Šišková, Naděžda [Zostavovateľ, editor]. – [recenzované]. – 1. vyd. – Roč. 6. – Praha (Česko) : Wolters Kluwer. Wolters Kluwer ČR, 2019. – ISBN 978-80-7598-718-1. – ISSN 1805-8809. – ISSN (online) 2464-6695, s. 217-234 [tlačená forma] [online]

5

 Between energy security and energy transition: Visegrad gas hub / Figulová, Andrea [Autor, 50%] ; Wertlen, Donald [Autor, 50%]. – [recenzované].

In: From economic to energy transition [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] : three decades of transitions in Central and Eastern Europe / Mišík, Matúš [Zostavovateľ, editor] ; Oravcová, Veronika [Zostavovateľ, editor]. – 1. vyd. – Cham (Švajčiarsko) : Springer Nature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. – (Energy, Climate and the Environment). – ISBN 978-3-030-55084-4. – ISBN (elektronické) 978-3-030-55085-1, s. 315-339 [tlačená forma] [online]

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
1

 Between energy security and energy transition: Visegrad gas hub / Figulová, Andrea [Autor, 50%] ; Wertlen, Donald [Autor, 50%]. – [recenzované].

In: From economic to energy transition [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] : three decades of transitions in Central and Eastern Europe / Mišík, Matúš [Zostavovateľ, editor] ; Oravcová, Veronika [Zostavovateľ, editor]. – 1. vyd. – Cham (Švajčiarsko) : Springer Nature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. – (Energy, Climate and the Environment). – ISBN 978-3-030-55084-4. – ISBN (elektronické) 978-3-030-55085-1, s. 315-339 [tlačená forma] [online]

2

Understanding the environmental and climate elements of EU space policy / Wertlen, Bibiana [Autor, 50%] ; Wertlen, Donald [Autor, 50%]. – WOS CC.

In: European journal of transformation studies [elektronický dokument] . – Tbilisi (Gruzínsko) : Europe Our House Press. – ISSN (online) 2298-0997. – Roč. 9, č. 1 (2021), s. 47-57 [online]

3

May energy justice enhance human rights protection in the European Union? / Mokrá, Lucia [Autor, 50%] ; Wertlen, Donald [Autor, 50%]. – [recenzované]. – DOI 10.46282/blr.2025.9.1.1027. – WOS CC ; SCO ; ESCI.

In: Bratislava law review [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] : semi-annual scholarly legal journal of Faculty of law, Comenius University in Bratislava. – Bratislava (Slovensko) : Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave. Právnická fakulta UK. – ISSN 2585-7088. – ISSN (online) 2644-6359. – Roč. 9, č. 1 (2025), s. 151-166 [tlačená forma] [online]

4

The Europeanisation of energy policy – What scenario for effective institutionalism? / Wertlen, Donald [Autor, 50%] ; Mokrá, Lucia [Autor, 50%]. – SCO.

In: European studies [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] : the review of European law, economics and politics / Šišková, Naděžda [Zostavovateľ, editor]. – [recenzované]. – 1. vyd. – Roč. 7. – Praha (Česko) : Wolters Kluwer, 2020. – ISBN 978-80-7676-017-2. – ISSN 1805-8809. – ISSN (online) 2464-6695, s. 154-173 [tlačená forma] [online]

5

Climate change : a second-class agenda in Slovakia? / Wertlen, Donald [Autor, 100%]. – [recenzované].

In: Climate change and the future of Europe [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] : Views from the capitals / Kaeding, Michael [Zostavovateľ, editor] ; Pollak, Johannes [Zostavovateľ, editor] ; Schmidt, Paul [Zostavovateľ, editor]. – 1. vyd. – Cham (Švajčiarsko) : Springer Nature, 2023. – (The future of Europe). – ISBN 978-3-031-23327-2. – ISBN 978-3-031-23330-2. – ISBN (elektronické) 978-3-031-23328-9, s. 99-102 [tlačená forma] [online]

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
1

Eihmanis, E. (2024). EU transnational coalitions in polycrisis: the Visegrád-4 before and after the Russo-Ukrainian war. Journal of European Public Policy, 31(10), 3299-3323.

2

Hebda, W. (2021). The North-South Gas Corridor in the Context of Poland’s Gas Transmission System—A Perfect Opportunity to Diversify Gas Resources. Energies, 14(21), 7188.

3

Ramiro Troitino, D., & Kerikmäe, T. (2023). El mercado de la Unión Europea, de analógico a digital. Retos para su interacción y disfrute en el marco Latinoamericano. Revista de Direito Internacional, 20(2).

4

Butzlaff, F., & Bitušíková, A. (2025). Does climate change delegitimize political parties? How movement–party linkages in Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and Poland are reshaped. Political Research Exchange, 7(1), 2581698.

5

Marušiak, J. (2024). Russia's aggression against Ukraine and its impact on the energy cooperation of Visegrad Group countries. In EU energy and climate policy after COVID-19 and the invasion of Ukraine (pp. 95-118). Routledge.

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
1

APVV-16-0540: Human Rights and Sustainable Development in EU External Relations

2

APVV-20-0012: EU Green Recovery in the post-Covid-19 Period (GreenRec)

3

PP-COVID-20-0026: Can we recover from the Covid19 pandemic? - the social, economic and legal perspective of the pandemic crises.

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

VIII.a - Name of the institution VIII.b - Address of the institution VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay) VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
University Degli Studi Di Napoli Federico II Neapol 20.05.2024-24.05.2024 Erazmus+
University Niccolò Cusano Rome 28.04.2025 - 02.05.2025 Erazmus+

IX. - Other relevant facts

IX.a - If relevant, other activities related to higher education or research/artistic/other activities are mentioned

Vice-Dean for Study Affairs, Chairman of the disciplinary committee of FSES CU

Date of last update
2026-02-27