Jozef Ristvej gained his Ph.D. in 2007 at the University of Zilina, SVK-EU, in crisis (disaster) management. Since that time, he has received a postdoctoral position as an assistant professor, in 2014 an associate professorship, and in 2019 a full professorship in the Department of Crisis Management, Faculty of Security Engineering, University of Zilina, Slovakia. Since October 2014, he has held the position of the Vice-Rector for International Relations and Marketing at the university. In 2007, he participated in the ISCRAM Crisis Management Summer School for Ph.D. students in Tilburg, NL. In 2010, he received the Visiting Scholar grant of Ruth Crawford Mitchell to the Center for Disaster Management at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, and in 2024, he was invited as a Visiting Scholar to the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, within the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley, CA, USA. His work focuses on supporting information systems and new technologies in the area of the decision-making process in crisis management. In 2012, he was a member of the ISCRAM 2012 Conference organising committee in Vancouver, Canada. He is an active member of the ISCRAM Association as well as the IEEE as a Senior Member.