A director of the Institue of Informatics SAS and a head of a Modelling and simulation of discrete processes department. Her research interests include discrete systems modelling and simulation, multi agent systems, artificial intelligence, and complex systems. She is oriented on application of bio-inspired methods on various domains, e.g. manufacturing, production lines optimizations, supply chain management, control and coordination of a group of mobile agents. Recently  she works on problems conneted to swarm intelligence and swarm robotics. She is an author and co-author of more than 100 research papers with above 120 citations on them. She is a supervisor and a consultant for PhD study at the Slovak University of Technology in Brati…