Robert Vrabel was born in Rimavska Sobota, Slovakia in 1967. He received a master's degree in applied mathematical analysis in 1990 and his Ph.D. in 1998 at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. At present, he is Professor with the Institute of Applied Informatics, Automation and Mechatronics at the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia. His current research interests include control of linear and nonlinear systems, modelling and simulation of mechanical systems and qualitative theory of ordinary differential equations.