Dr. Agnieszka Blokus is an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at the Faculty of Navigation, Gdynia Maritime University. She received the M.S. degree in mathematics with a specialization in computer science and numerical methods from Gdansk University and the Ph.D. degree in automatics and robotics from the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Her field of interest is reliability analysis of technical systems, particularly of systems with dependent components.