ROMAN DANEL was born in Český Těšín, the Czech Republic. He received P.Eng. degree in Automation and Control Systems in 1989 and Ph.D. degree in Automation of Technological Processes at VŠB – Technical university of Ostrava in 2002. He spent 18 years in commercial practice in the field of IT / ICT and for 4 years ran his own company specializing in SW supplies for industry. From 2009 to 2012 he was an assistant professor at the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Institute of Economics and Control Systems, Faculty of Mining and Geology (and from 2012 to 2017 he was a head of the Automation department). Since 2012, he is a visiting professor at University of Economy Bydgoszcz (WSG), Poland. Since 2018 he is an assistant professor at Institute of Technology and Businesses (VŠTE), Faculty of Technology, České Budějovice, Czechia. Since 2019 he also holds lectures at VSB-TU Ostrava, Faculty of Economics, Department of System Engineering and Informatics. His research areas include information systems and automatic control in industry, databases, IoT, programming languages and software.