Dagmar Caganova obtained her PhD in branch Theory of teaching foreign languages at Comenius University, Bratislava (Slovakia) in 2003. She also studied Management in cooperation of Comenius University (Slovakia) with Wichita State University (USA).

Currently, she works as a scientific researcher at the Institute of Industrial Engineering, Management and Quality at the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology, the Slovak University of Technology. At the same time she works as a coordinator of professional activities on national level for the National Institute of Education in Bratislava. Her research interests refer to language education, innovations in curriculum development, key managerial competencies, automotive clusters research, gender diversity in materials research institutions.