Biography

Pavel Krpálek graduated from the Faculty of Business and Economics at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague (1987), completed his scientific preparation at the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Economics in Prague (actually named Prague University of Economics and Business) in 1991 (CSc. = Ph.D.), and habilitated in 2007 at the Faculty of Finance and Accounting of the University of Economics in Prague (associate professor in the field of Theory of Teaching Economic Subjects). He was appointed as a professor in the field of Subject Didactics by the President of the Slovak Republic in 2023. Following this, he was appointed as an extraordinary professor at the Škoda Auto University in 2024. His professional background is quite extensive, comprising economics, management, human resource development, educational theory, and subject didactics of economic subjects. He has extensive managerial experience in the management and coordination of science and research at private universities. He served as Vice-Rector for Science and Research at the University of Economics in Prague and at the University of International and Public Relations in Prague. In his publishing and scientific research activities, he has long focused on human resources and education, entrepreneurship, career management, and competency development. In the past five years, he has been the principal investigator of four external grants for applied research, focusing mainly on publications in quality scientific journals (WoS/Scopus). He is a successful supervisor of doctoral students, with ten completed doctoral students in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He has extensive experience in accreditation and evaluation activities. He is the author of the Bachelor's study program Human Resource Development in Transportation Economics (accredited for the period 2014–2024). He guaranteed this study program at the University of Economics in Prague until 2019. He serves as an evaluator for the National Accreditation Authority for Higher Education in the Czech Republic in the fields of Economics Education, Teaching, and Non-Teaching Pedagogy, and is also an assessor at the Slovak Accreditation Agency for Higher Education. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Education and Counseling at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. He is a registered reviewer of high school economics textbooks for obtaining accreditation from the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports at the National Pedagogical Institute of the Czech Republic. At the Škoda Auto University, he is a member of the Council for Study Programs and the Internal Evaluation Council. He is also the deputy editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed professional journal Media4u, supporting education, and a member of the scientific editorial board of the Extrasystem publishing house. He serves on the scientific councils and organizational committees of numerous scientific conferences, such as Schola nova, quo vadis, and Media and Education.

At Škoda Auto University, he has been employed since July 1, 2023, on a half-time basis as an extraordinary professor in the Department of Human Resource Management.

Concurrently, he works as a professor at the Prague University of Economics and Business, Faculty of Finance and Accounting, where he is the guarantor of the unique Master's degree program Teaching of Economic Subjects for Secondary Schools. He teaches subject didactics of economic subjects, subject didactics of economics, simulated (fictional) companies, management of economics and finance, i.e., preparing future accredited teachers of economic subjects in formal education and lecturers for corporate education.

Specializations:

Human resources, personnel management, theory and practice of education, didactics, economics, finance, simulated companies, management, pre- and postgraduate teacher training in formal education and lecturers, higher education pedagogy, career management.