Pavla Vodová finished her major in banking at the School of Business Administration of the Silesian University in Karvina (2002). She finished her doctoral study in Finance in 2009. Since September 2002, she has got involved into work in the Department of Finance as an assistant, since September 2004, she has worked as an assistant professor. She lectures in courses Financial Risk Management A, Financial Risk Management B, Banking A and Banking B, she leads seminars in courses Corporate Finance A and Money, Banks and Financial Markets. She regularly lectures issues of banking sector and selected aspects of corporate finance at foreign universities.