Marek Cała is a professor at the AGH University of Krakow, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Resource Management, Krakow, Poland. He graduated from the Faculty of Mining and Geoengineering at AGH. He previously worked as an assistant at the Department of Geomechanics, Construction and Geotechnics, Faculty of Mining and Geoengineering, AGH. From 2002 to 2005, he served as deputy head of the Department of Geomechanics, Construction and Geotechnics. From 2008 to 2016, he served as the vice-dean of the Faculty of Mining and Geoengineering at AGH, and from 2016 to 2020 and from 2020 to 2021 as the dean of this Faculty. Since 2008, he has been the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the cyclical conference Winter School of Rock Mechanics and Geoengineering. In 2016, during the meeting in Rio de Janeiro, he was elected as the president of the International Organizing Committee of the World Mining Congress (IOC/WMC). He is the chairman of the Małopolska Branch of the Polish Geotechnical Committee and has a PKG certificate. He is also a member of the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) and chairman of the Małopolska Branch of the Polish Geotechnical Committee.