Barbora Lapcikova received her M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from Masaryk University in 1992 and her Ph.D. in Macromolecular Chemistry from the Brno University of Technology in 1998. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at Tomas Bata University in Zlín and a docent at Palacký University in Olomouc. Her scientific research activity focuses on the study of adsorption processes taking place on substances with a high content of organically bound carbon, material engineering, thermal analysis, electrochemistry, and their use in the field of preparation and characterization of composite materials and food products.