Bara Buhnova is an Associate Professor at Masaryk University (MU), where she leads multiple research teams at Faculty of Informatics MU (teams on software architecture, smart cities), Institute of Computer Science MU (team on big data analytics), and Czech CyberCrime Centre of Excellence C4e (team on critical infrastructures). Next to her academic activities, she is passionate about tech education among general public, which is why she acts as a Co-Founding and Governing Board member of Czechitas, a non-profit organisation aiming at making IT skills more accessible to youth and women of any age (reaching to 10,000+ graduates).