Vice-Rector for Scientific Research
Prof. RNDr. Michal Munk, PhD., has been at the University since 2003. He received his habilitation in Systems Engineering and Informatics in 2012 and was appointed Professor in the same field in 2018 at the Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Králové.
At the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Informatics, UKF, he is responsible for the development and quality assurance of the Applied Informatics study programmes at Bachelor’s, Master’s and doctoral levels, as well as the Teaching of Informatics study programmes at Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. He is also involved in the development and quality assurance of habilitation and professorial appointment procedures in Applied Informatics within the field of Informatics. He serves as Chair of the Doctoral Programme Committee for Applied Informatics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Informatics, UKF in Nitra, and is a member of doctoral programme boards at universities in Pardubice, Hradec Králové and České Budějovice.
His professional and research activities focus primarily on data analysis and computational intelligence, web mining and natural language processing. He is a recipient of the international Green Group Award of Computational Finance and Business Intelligence. As principal investigator, he leads several national research projects in the field of Business Informatics and also participates in international research projects focusing on artificial and computational intelligence. He serves on the editorial boards of scientific journals and is Associate Editor for Data Science of Acta Informatica Pragensia: Journal of Applied Informatics.
He has served as Vice-Rector for Research since 15 July 2026.
