Daniel Stavárek finished his major in banking at the School of Business Administration of the Silesian University in Karvina. He got involved into work in the Department of Finance as an assistant in September, 2000 and since 2001 he has worked here as an assistant profesor and associate professor. He finished his doctoral study in Finance in 2004. He was appointed as an associate professor in Finance, banking and investment in 2007.

He lectures in courses: Money, Banking and Financial Markets, International Finance A, International Finance B, International Financial Institutions, in Ph.D. course on Banks, Financial Markets and Corporate Financing and in English-taught course International Finance in Central Europe. He regularly lectures issues of international finance, economic transformation in Central Europe and the restructuring of the financial and banking sector at foreign universities. Since 2007 he was the Deputy Head of the Department of Finance. Since 2008 he has been the Head of the Department of Finance.

He is a member of Czech Economic Society, International Economic Society and its Advisory Board and Society for the Study of Emerging Markets. He serves as a co-editor and member of editorial boards of several scientific journals and member of program committees of international conferences. He is a member of the Board of Referees of the Czech Science Foundation in the field of Business, finance and administrative sciences. He also serves as a member of the Board of Internal Grant System of Silesian University. In January 2009, he was elected as a Chairman of Academic Senate of Silesian University, School of Business Administration in Karviná.