Pavel Praks joined IT4Innovations, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic in 2018. He is a senior researcher at Advanced Data Analysis and Simulation Lab responsible for the research group Data Science and Simulation for Energy. During 2012-8 he was a research fellow at European Commission (EC), Joint Research Centre (JRC), in Ispra, Italy. In JRC, he contributed to probabilistic modelling of the EU energy networks from the reliability, vulnerability and security perspectives. During 1999-2012 he worked at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava as a lecturer and researcher of numerical methods and statistics.