| 2001- | Chair (2001–2007, 2013-2022), Professor (2005– ), Associate Professor (2001–2005)
        Dept. Computer Science, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic |  | 
  
    | 2007-2009 | Professor of Systems Science (with tenure),
        State University of New York at Binghamton, U. S. A. |  | 
  
    | 1999-2000 | Research Fellow, Center for Intelligent Systems, 
        State University of New York at Binghamton, U. S. A. |  | 
  
    | 1996-2000 | Research Fellow, Vice-director,
        Institute for Fuzzy Modeling, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic |  | 
  
    | 1994-1996 | Assistant Professor, Dept. Computer Science, Technical University 
        of Ostrava, Czech Republic |  | 
  
    | MSc | 1994,  
        Theoretical Cybernetics, Informatics, and Systems Theory 
        (summa cum laude),
        Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic |  | 
  
    | PhD | 1998, Computer Science, Technical University of Ostrava, 
        thesis “Networks Processing Indeterminacy” |  | 
  
    | PhD | 2001, Mathematics, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic,
        thesis “Convex Sets and Congruence Classes in Universal Algebras” |  | 
  
    | doc. | 2001 (equiv. Assoc. Professor), Mathematics, Palacky University, Olomouc, 
        Czech Republic,
        habilitation thesis “Fuzzy concept lattices and related structures”, 
        reviewers: Petr Hájek (Academy of Sciences of CR, Prague),
        Ivan Chajda (UP Olomouc), 
        Radko Mesiar (STU Bratislava) |  | 
  
    | prof. | 2004 (equiv. Full Professor), Computer Science,
        appointed by the President of Czech Republic, letters of recommendation by 
        Petr Hájek (Academy of Sciences of CR, Prague), 
        Ladislav J. Kohout (Florida State University), 
        Lotfi A. Zadeh (UCB, Berkeley) |  | 
  
    | DSc | 2008,  “doctor of science”, field “Informatics and Cybernetics”,  
        Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, dissertation “Concept lattices and 
        attribute implications from data with fuzzy attributes”, 
        reviewers: Radko Mesiar (STU Bratislava), Mirko Navara (CTU Prague),
        Vilém Novák (University of Ostrava) |  |