Stepan Ozana was born in Bilovec, Czech Republic on 16 May 1977. He studied Electrical Engineering at VSB Technical University of Ostrava, where he obtained an MSc degree in Control and Measurement Engineering (2000) and a Ph.D. degree in Technical Cybernetics (2004). In 2015, he habilitated in Technical Cybernetics, and since then he has worked as an Associated Professor at the Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at VSB Technical University of Ostrava. At present, he gives lectures on Cybernetics and Control Systems. His main areas of interest and expertise are the modelling and simulation of dynamic systems, control theory, automation, design, implementation, and the deployment of control algorithms using softPLC systems.