Alenka Brezavšček is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor. She holds a PhD in Integral Quality Management from the University of Maribor. Her research interests include operations research and stochastic processes (theory and applications), reliability and availability of systems, optimization of maintenance of technical systems, and information and cyber security. At the Faculty, she is Chair of the Methodology Department, member of the Senate and Chair of the Quality Assessment Committee. She has been involved in several applied projects focusing on the optimisation of production processes and maintenance. She has also held several technical seminars on statistical data processing, information and cyber security for different audiences.