She focuses on feminist epistemology, issues relating to gender in science and the history of feminist thinking. She has participated in several international and national projects in the area of gender equality and feminist theory. She was a member of the Steering Committee for the Central European Centre for Women and Youth in Science and she has also been working on gender equality in science and research as a member of the Expert Group for Gender Equality in R&D in Slovakia. Mariana Szapuová studied Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, Comenius University in Bratislava, where she also completed her doctoral studies.