Doc. MUDr. Ľubomíra Izáková, PhD. is an associate professor of psychiatry at the Psychiatric Clinic of LFUK and UN Bratislava, she also teaches at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Bratislava. Since 2022, she has been the Head of the Psychiatric Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Physical Sciences and Charles University in Bratislava. She has completed a specialization study in psychiatry, also a specialization study in management and financing in health care, psychotherapeutic training in logotherapy and existential analysis. She teaches in undergraduate and postgraduate studies in psychiatry, in specialization studies at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Bratislava, she is a supervisor in doctoral studies in psychiatry and neurosciences. She acts as the main expert of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic for psychiatry, she is the past-president of the Slovak Psychiatric Society SLS, an honorary member of the Committee of the Slovak Psychiatric Society SLS 2022-2026 and a member of the Presidium of the Slovak Medical Society. She is a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals. She trains four PhD students. 

She received several awards (The best Mentor-Mentee pair of the CINP Hungarian Research Mentor Program, Budapest, Hungary, 2001; CINP Rafaelsen Fellowship Award 2002, XXIIIrd Congress, Montreal, Canada, 2002; ECNP (European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) Fellowship Award 2002, 15th ECNP Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2002; Excellent Case Presentation, Salzburg Weill Cornell Seminar Psychiatry, 2014; Vladimír Novotný Award for the best original work published in the journal Psychiatry for Practice for 2015 and for 2020; Medal of the Founding of the Medical-Slovak Society 2020 awarded by the Slovak Medical Society; Czech Neuropsychopharmacological Society Award 2021 and 2022). She is the Vice-Chair of the Committee for Quality of Mental Health Care of the Slovak Government Council for Mental Health. Since 2021, he has been acting as a guarantor of specialisation studies in the specialisation field of sexology. She is the author of 2 scientific monographs (on the treatment of schizoaffective disorder of depressive type and addictions), co-author of 3 university textbooks and author and co-author of more than 40 domestic and foreign scientific articles, in most of them the first author, which have received more than 100 citations, she is the author and co-author of several standard diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. She serves as a reviewer for several domestic and international journals. She is a long-term member of a multidisciplinary team consisting of psychiatrists and neuroscientists from the Academy of Sciences, which has been continuously working for about 10 years on the elucidation of neuroendocrine biomarkers of depression from different perspectives.