Specialization

Management Systems, Circular Economy, Sustainability Management, Bioeconomy, Risk Management & Insurance, Healthcare Management

Pedagogical activity

• Legal Framework and Regulations in Waste Management

• Academic Writing

• Personal Insurance

• Property Insurance

Education

• 2022 – Faculty of Economics, Technical Univrsity of Liberec, Business Administration and Management (doc.)
• 2015 – Faculty of Economics, Technical Univrsity of Liberec, Insurance (Ph.D.)
• 2012 – Faculty of Economics, Technical Univrsity of Liberec, Insurance (Ing.)
• 2010 – Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Pardubice, Business Management (Bc.)

Professional Practice

Pavla Vrabcová focuses on a wide range of issues related to sustainable development and management systems for sustainable business. She is a member of advisory bodies and other professional organizations:

• Agricultural Economics Society,
• Expert Section of the Czech Quality Council for Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development (an advisory body to the Ministry of Industry and Trade),
• Department of Economics, Management, Sociology and Informatics of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Vice-Chair since 2025), including the Commission for Management and Strategic Human Resource Development in Agriculture,
• Department of Agrarian History of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences (advisory bodies to the Ministry of Agriculture),
• Slovak Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Economics and Management (an advisory body to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Slovak Republic),
• Czech Business Council for Sustainable Development (CBCSD) (and its working groups on Decarbonisation, Sustainable Finance and ESG, and Circular Economy),
• CSR Stakeholder Platform,
• Financial Academy of Zlatá koruna,
• Platform for the Bioeconomy of the Czech Republic.

She is a member of the editorial boards of professional journals:

• SN Business & Economics,
• Central European Business Review – Associate Editor,
• Agricultural Economics – Editorial Board Member & Associate Editor,
• Czech Hospitality and Tourism Papers,
• Waste Forum,
• Prameny a studie,
• Mundus symbolicus.

She is also a member of the scientific editorial board at Grada Publishing, a.s. In 2024, she became a member of the expert panel Energy Transformation and Sustainable Future for the preparation of new National Priorities of Oriented Research. She is the author of a study requested by the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, presenting its findings before the European Parliament in 2026, which contributed to discussions on the direction of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy regarding the bioeconomy and economic sustainability.

To date, she has published more than 70 professional articles indexed in world-renowned databases such as Web of Science and Scopus, with both domestic and international citations (h-index: 12). Pavla Vrabcová has authored or co-authored a total of 10 monographs and book chapters, as well as 11 university textbooks.

She serves as a principal investigator for scientific research projects (National Agency for Agricultural Research, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, contract research under Prague Voucher calls, internal projects, and other contract research) and acts as an expert reviewer for selected entities (Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, National Agency for Agricultural Research, Slovak Research and Development Agency, OP JAK, expert consultant for BETA3 TAČR, VEGA/KEGA, OP TAK, Horizon Europe, etc.).

Project activities:

• QK1920391, NAZV. Diversification of the impact of the bioeconomy on strategic documents of the forestry and wood sector as a basis for public administration and a proposal of strategic objectives by 2030, National Agency for Agricultural Research (NAZV), Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 2018–2021

• Prague Voucher CZ.07.1.02/0.0/0.0/16_025/0000605 – Comprehensive management system of roundwood purchasing and receiving, 2021

• TP01010050/2020_03_19, TAČR GAMA. Development of renewable smart materials and hybrid composite materials based on WPC granules as raw material for the production of composite materials from recycled plastics and biomaterials, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 2020–2022

• Horizon Europe (EIT HEI Initiative), Deep Tech Empowerment for Higher Education Institutes (Skills2Scale), 2023–2024

Publications

List of publications and other information on the website kontakt.tul.cz.