Associate Professor Robert Król, PhD DSc. Eng. graduated (1999) from Faculty of Mining of the Wroclaw University of Science Technology (WUST), specializing in Technologies of underground exploitation of ore deposits. He received his PhD (2003) and DSc degrees (2014) in technical sciences in the discipline of mining and engineering geology. Professionally associated with the Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology of WUST since 1999, successively as PhD student, research associate, assistant professor and associate professor. Currently, he is a Head of the Department of Mining and Geodesy. His research interests include examination of mining facilities and systems (energy consumption, durability, reliability); management of exploitation of mining machines and devices; and modelling and numerical simulations in the DEM and FlexSim environment.