Dariusz Król is currently a Professor at Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Wroclaw Tech), where he serves as the Vice-Dean for General Affairs in the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology and is the Head of the Knowledge Engineering Group within the Department of Applied Informatics. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2001 and his D.Sc. in 2017, both in computer science. He has previously held positions as a Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at Bournemouth University and as a DAAD Research Fellow at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität. His research and teaching interests focus on knowledge engineering applications, data quality, computational intelligence, and cognitive technologies to create adaptive and sustainable manufacturing systems. He has published over 160 peer-reviewed papers, co-authored three books, and co-edited four.

Professor Krol has extensive experience in project leadership and has served as the principal investigator on twelve research projects, including FP7 project PIEF-GA-2010-274375, which focused on the Error Propagation Phenomenon and was funded from 2012 to 2014. He regularly reviews papers for a wide range of academic journals. Additionally, he has served as an action editor on the editorial board of Computational Intelligence magazine and as an associate editor for the International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies. Professor Krol has been a member of the program committees for several major conferences in distributed and grid computing, web technologies, and intelligent and multi-agent systems. He was also a speaker at several renowned universities, including Korea (Yeungnam University, Chung-Ang University), Germany (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg), Japan (Kyoto University), Great Britain (Queen Mary University of London, King's College London), New Zealand (University of Otago).