Matjaž Dolšek is Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering at Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering (FGG), University of Ljubljana (UL) and a leader of research program Earthquake Engineering. Currently, he is also the Vice-Dean for Research and International Activities at UL FGG.

Matjaž Dolšek has participated in several European projects (SPEAR - G6RD-CT-2001-00525, LESSLOSS - GOTSE-CT-2003-505448, SERIES, FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2008, STREST – coordinated by ETH Zurich). He was the project leader of three basic research projects sponsored by Slovenian Research Agency. All projects were very well evaluated, especially the latter project, which received the highest score possible. He is a leader at the partner’s organization (UL FGG) for two European projects: XP-RESILIENCE (MSCA-ITN-ETN-2016) and NEWREBAR (Research Found for Coal and Steel). He was also the coordinator of the Slovenian-US (Stanford University), Slovenian-Italian (European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering) and Slovenian-Cypriot bilateral research project.

He is involved in teaching at seven courses at all three levels of study and at one course from the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Environmental Protection. A lot of time dedicates to the individual work with young researchers. He was a mentor at six and co-mentor at four doctorates. Currently, he is an advisor of four PhD students. He also teaches engineers (e.g. the introduction of Eurocode in Slovenia, training about the seismic safety of buildings that are relevant for nuclear safety). M. Dolšek participated in many projects for practice. Among others, he led an experimental study on the seismic resistance of selected construction sub-assemblages for energy-efficient construction system JUBHome and study on the development of guidelines for earthquake-resistant design of such houses.

For more than ten years he is involved in projects related to safety upgrade for structures and components of the units of Nuclear Power plant Krško. He was a member of a team who prepared the seismic stress test of Nuclear Power Plant Krško after the Fukushima event. In 2015 he was a leader of the project team who developed seismic fragility functions of the structural components of the safety-related bunkered building in the NPP. Later on, he was a leader of the expert team who prepared an evaluation of the project for building permit for the building which includes Alternate Auxiliary Feedwater System and for the Spent Fuel Dry Storage building. For the latter buildings, M.Dolšek supervised the development of methodology and evaluation of the fragility analysis. In addition, he led the evaluation of the project for building permit of the repository for low and medium nuclear waste. In this context he also led independent seismic analysis with an emphasis of developing the design methodology with consideration of the environmental and the construction legislation as a coupled problem.

M. Dolšek is a member of the Slovenian Chamber of Engineers, a member of the Slovenian and the European Association for Earthquake Engineering and a member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (USA). In the context of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering participate in the working group WG1: Future directions of Eurocode 8. This group is responsible for the development of methods of seismic analysis and to determine the objectives of the code in terms of acceptable seismic risk. Based on the tender of the European Commission he was selected in the Project Team (CEN / TC250 / SC8-PT1), which is preparing the second generation of standard for earthquake-resistant design of structures - Eurocode 8. He is a member of technical committees Slovenian Institute for Standardization SIST / TC KON.001 - Fundamentals of design, SIST / TC KON.008 – Earthquake-resistant construction).

M. Dolšek organized several special sessions at international conferences and an international workshop Protection of Built Environment Against Earthquakes. The results of the workshop are published in the scientific monograph of the same name (M. Dolšek editor), which was attended by 30 authors from around the world, and which has issued an international publishing house Springer.

Employment, education and the election, awards:

· 2002 Ph.D. at Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana.

· 2005 Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering;

· 2010 Associate Professor of Structural Engineering

· 2015 Elected full professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering

· 2019 Zois recognition award for permanent contribution to the development of science and research in the Republic of Slovenia in the field of earthquake engineering

Managerial and organizational work:

· 2004 Participated in the organization of an International Workshop on Performance-

Based Seismic Design;

· 2007-2009 Project leader of the basic project entitled Research Project probabilistic seismic risk assessment (Sponsored by Slovenian Research Agency)

· 2008 Organization of a two-day workshop for engineers of PCE Ltd.

· 2008-2009 Coordinator of the scientific research project with the Republic of Cyprus

· 2008-2010 Project leader of basic research project High-throughput computing environment for seismic risk analysis (Sponsored by Slovenian Research Agency)

· 2008 The organization and management of the two-day workshop Seismic risk prepared for engineers of PCE Ltd.;

· 2010 Organization of the International Workshop on Protection of Build Environment

Against earthquakes (http://ice4risk.slo-projekt.info/workshop/).

· 2010-2013 Project leader at UL FGG of the bilateral project with the Italian Republic. The project was awarded as a particularly relevant project.

· 2010-2012 Project leader at UL FGG of the bilateral project with Stanford University (J. Baker).

· 2013- Co-organizer mini-symposium at the International Conference VEESD 2013.

· 2013- Co-organizer mini-symposium at the International Conference COMPDYN 2013.

· 2013-2016 Project leader of a basic research project Design of structures for tolerable seismic risk using non-linear methods of analysis (Slovenian Research Agency, J2-5461, www.smartengineering.si)

· 2013-2016 Project Leader at UL FGG of European project STREST from the 7th framework program ((FP7-ENV-2013, GA No. 603389)

· 2015-2019 Project Leader at UL FGG of European project NEWREBAR (Research Found for Coal and Steel, GA No. RFSR-CT-2015-00023)

· 2015- Vice-Dean for Research and International Activities at UL FGG

· 2016- Project Leader at UL FGG of European project XP-RESILIENCE (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016, Ga No.: 721816)

· 2016-2018 Co-leader at UL FGG of the project from Slovenian’s Strategy of Smart Specialization (pillar: Smart buildings and home with wood chain), project IQ HOME Intelligent home of the new generation designed on smart appliances and wood

· 2017- Project leader of a basic research project Seismic stress test of the built environment (Slovenian Research Agency, J2-8159)

Teaching:

· Course leader for Basics of earthquake engineering, Earthquake Engineering, Structural dynamics and earthquake engineering, Structural dynamics for use in earthquake engineering (doctoral program) and Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (co-leader). Introduction to construction (course leaders: B. Brank, J. Logar and M. Dolšek). Course Leader of Reliability of structures for use in earthquake engineering (doctoral program).

· Advisor of 75 graduates, co-advisor for 10 graduates, 5x advisor of Master Thesis (Bologna studies),

· His graduates have received numerous awards for his work: the Prešeren Award FGG (6x – Andolšek 2018, Podgorelec 2013, Lazar 2011 2009 Snoj and Brozović 2007 Celarec); Trimo Research Award (3x - 2006 Podobnik 2009 Brozović 2010 Bonča 1x (co-supervisor) -ERA); IKPIR awards for the best Diploma Thesis (4x - Žižmond 2012, Lazar 2011; 2009 Snoj; 2007 Celarec 1x (co-supervisor) - 2005 Rozman), University Prešeren Award (1x (co-supervisor) - 2005 Rozman),

· Supervisor at 6 Doctoral Thesis (three employed in industry, three at research organizations), 4x co-supervisor of Doctoral Theses (2 employed in industry, 2 in research organizations).

Scientific research work:

· According to the data in SICRIS (23/11/2019) his work achieved 1144 citations, H index 18, 2465 citations in Google Scholar (H = 25).

· Co-author or author of 40 original scientific papers (mostly in the first quarter of journals from SCI database).

· More than 70 contributions at international or domestic conferences, co-author of a

scientific monography and co-author of five parts of books.

· Participation in international research projects: INCO-Copernicus, Slovenian-American (2x), Slovenian-Japanese, Slovenian-Cypriot and Slovenian-Italian bilateral project;

· Participation in European projects: SAFERR (FP5), SPEAR (FP6), LESSLOSS (FP6) SERIES (FP7), STREST (FP7), NEWREBAR (RFCS H2020), XP-RESILIENCE(H2020, MSCA ITN).

Professional work:

· Participated in numerous projects (around 30 projects) in the field of evaluation of the seismic resistance of structures and determination of earthquake parameters for the design of structures including for structures important for Nuclear Safety (several new constructions in NPP Krško (BB1, BB2, DSB, OPC), silos for low and medium nuclear waste).

· In 2009, he was head of the study Assessment of seismic risk for Učja concrete gravity dam, which is the first study of its kind in Slovenia.

· He introduces a modern computer software of CSI Inc. in practice, and focus on helping users. The software is particularly specialized in the earthquake-resistant design. CSI programs are used also the Faculty of Architecture and Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Maribor, as well as the relevant organizations involved in the construction of structures (eg. ZAG, GI-ZRMK, DDC Consulting, Engineers Pipenbaher d.o.o).

· Member of the Slovenian Chamber of Engineers (since 2009), Slovenian and European Association for Earthquake Engineering and a member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (USA),

· Member of the working group WG1 EAEE: Future directions of Eurocode 8, member of Project Team 1 (CEN / TC250 / SC8-PT1) who is preparing the second generation of standard Eurocode 8, member of technical Committee (SIST / TC KON.001 - Fundamentals of design, SIST / TC KON.008 – Earthquake-resistant structures).