Piotr A. Kowalski is professor AGH at the Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, as well as at the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He received his MSc in Teleinformatics (with honours) and Automatic Control (with honours) from Cracow University of Technology in 2003 and his Ph.D. on Data analysis from the Polish Academy of Science, in 2009. In 2018, he received D.Sc. from the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research interests are in the area of information technology and are focused on intelligent methods (neural networks, fuzzy systems and nature-inspired algorithms) with application to complex systems and knowledge discovery.