Nikola Staffenova (0000-0003-4239-6560, nikola.staffenova@fri.uniza.sk) is an assistant professor at the Department of Management Theories at the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Zilina in Zilina. She teaches courses such as Introduction to Studies, Enterprise Information Systems, and Information Management. In her scientific and research activities, she primarily focuses on human resource management/human capital, motivation and creativity, Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0, information and cyber security and ethical aspects of ICT use. The results of her research activities have been published in journals such as Economic Research, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, and PLoS One. The journals in which she publishes are indexed in the Web of Science (H-index: 3) and Scopus (H-index: 2) databases. She participated in the projects Cybersecurity Competence Center UNIZA (KC KYB UNIZA) as a member of the research team; Use of Cloud technology for the digitalization of the system for supporting the management and financing of sports at the regional and local levels as a member of the research team. She holds certificates in Introduction to IoT, Introduction to Cybersecurity, and Cybersecurity Essentials (CISCO Networking Academy).