Vladimir Marik

Prague Czech Republic

Professor at Czech Tech University

Managing director and CEO of CertiCon a.s. • Chairman of the Research Council of the Czech Republic Technology Agency, appointed by the Czech government in 2010. • Elected as a foreign member of the Russian Engineering Academy (2009). • Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. System, Man and Cybernetics, part C since 2005. Under his leadership, the impact factor of the Transactions grew up from 0.435 in 2005 to 2.016 in 2010. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Czech mutation of the Scientific American magazine. • Co-founder of the Czech Technical University Media Laboratory – Foundation (2006} established to support research carried out by talented students and you