KEYNOTE LECTURES
Title: | PhD, PEng |
Name and Surname: | Svetlana Brzev |
University: | University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
Topic of the lecture: | Seismic Design and Construction of Reinforced Concrete Buildings – Lessons Learned from the 1979 Montenegro and the 2023 Turkiye Earthquakes |
Short biography: | Prof. dr Svetlana Brzev has 40 years of international academic and consulting experience related to seismic analysis, design, and retrofitting of reinforced concrete and masonry buildings. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and was previously a faculty at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver. Dr. Brzev has been working as a consultant to the United Nations (World Bank) since the 1990s and is currently engaged in projects involving seismic retrofitting of schools in Central Asia. She serves on the Technical Committee responsible for the development of design standard for masonry buildings in Canada (CSA S304), and is a member of the Eurocode 8 Technical Committee 250/SC8/WG1 responsible for the development of design provisions for seismic design and retrofitting of masonry buildings. She was one of the leaders of the research team that developed the Global Earthquake Model (GEM). Dr. Brzev is a past Vice-President of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and is currently a Director of the International Association of Earthquake Engineering. She has served as the President of Serbian Association for Earthquake Engineering (SUZI-SAEE) since its inception in 2018. Prof. Brzev has published more than 150 technical papers and has co-authored three textbooks related to design of masonry and reinforced concrete structures in Canada. In 2015, she was named a Fellow of the Engineers Canada for her contribution to the engineering profession in Canada. |
Webpage: | https://civil.ubc.ca/svetlana-brzev/ |
Title: | Associate Professor Dr |
Name and Surname: | Mario Uroš |
University: | University of Zagreb |
Topic of the lecture: | Impact of devastating earthquakes in Croatia in 2020
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Short biography: | Mario Uroš is an associate professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb. In his professional and scientific work, he deals with the field of numerical modeling, dynamics and stability of structures and earthquake engineering. He participates in numerous scientific projects and he is the author of many relevant scientific and professional papers. In the area of seismic risk assessment he participates in the preparation of various documents important for seismic risk assessment at the City of Zagreb and the Republic of Croatia. He participated in field damage assessment of the Civil Protection In Albania. He was one of the coordinators of the rapid damage assessments of buildings by civil engineers after the earthquakes in Zagreb in March 2020 and Petrinja in December 2020, and participated in the creation of a series of strategic documents such as “Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment” for Zagreb and Petrinja. He is a member of the subcommittee for design of seismic resistance of structures at the Croatian Standards Institute. He received several awards, including the Medal of the City of Zagreb and the “Kolos” award of the Croatian Chamber of Civil Engineers in 2020 for his contribution to post-earthquake activities. |
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Title: | Full Professor Dr |
Name and Surname: | Srđan Janković |
University: | University of Montenegro |
Topic of the lecture: | Probabilistic seismic analysis of reinforced concrete structures |
Short biography: | Srđan Janković, PhD, Civil Engineering is a full professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the University of Montenegro in Podgorica in the field of: Concrete and Masonry Structures and Earthquake Engineering. He lectures on the subjects: Fundamentals of earthquake engineering at undergraduate studies and Seismic design and Design of seismically resistant reinforced concrete structures at the master’s studies of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, as well as on the subject Seismic planning and design at the Faculty of Architecture in Podgorica. He was a mentor on a number of graduate and master’s theses as well as on one doctoral dissertation. So far, he has published a large number of scientific research papers in the field of the behavior of reinforced concrete structures during earthquakes, as well as on the probabilistic assessment of the behavior of frame structures. In parallel with the scientific and research work, in the capacity of the responsible designer, he participated in the development of a large number of main projects of high-rise buildings, as well as two bridges on the Bar-Boljari highway. He is also the author of two books. In 2014, the book “Fundamentals of Seismic Planning and Design – For Architecture and Construction Engineers” was published, which was accepted as a university textbook and is primarily intended for undergraduate students of civil engineering and architecture. The second book “Seismic calculation of reinforced concrete buildings in accordance with Eurocodes”, which was published in 2022, is addressed to students of master’s studies in civil engineering, but also to civil engineers and designers. |
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Title: | Associate Professor Dr |
Name and Surname: | Goran Jekić |
University: | Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje |
Topic of the lecture: | Building Seismic Resilient Society in North Macedonia – IZIIS’ Experience |
Short biography: | Dr. Goran Jekić is an associate professor at the Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (IZIIS), Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. His scientific and professional activity includes earthquake engineering, experimental testing of buildings, structural design of seismically resistant buildings, repair and strengthening of building structures and structural health monitoring. Since 2007 he actively participates in applicative and scientific national and international research projects in the field of earthquake engineering, as well as in seminars, workshops and training programs aimed at raising public awareness for protection from earthquake consequences. He was involved in post-earthquake missions for safety assessment of facilities in affected areas in the country and the region. Dr. Jekić was a member of the Technical Committee for adoption of the Macedonian National Annexes for the European standards for structural design. He is actively involved as a teaching staff in the training program for the application of Eurocode 8 standard, organized by the Chamber of Certified Architects and Certified Engineers of the Republic of North Macedonia. He has published scientific and professional conference papers, expert reports, journal papers and book chapters. He has coauthored the university textbook “Application of MATLAB for Solving Problems in Structural and Earthquake Engineering” for civil and earthquake engineering students. In 2017 Dr. Jekić was awarded a recognition by the Macedonian Association of Structural Engineers (MASE) for special achievement in structural engineering as well as a recognition for special structural engineering scientific achievement for his independent scientific research work. |
Webpage: | http://www.iziis.ukim.edu.mk/en/departments-2/building-structures-and-materials/goran-jekic-en/ |
Title: | Professor Dr. |
Name and Surname: | Charalampos Baniotopoulos |
University: | University of Birmingham |
Topic of the lecture: | Artificial Intelligence-assisted Civil Engineering: Digital Twins for the Wind Energy Infrastructure
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Short biography: | Professor Dr. Charalampos (Lambis) Baniotopoulos is Chair of Sustainable Energy Systems, University of Birmingham, UK, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (RWTH 1987, LUH 2011, FUB 2019 & TUB 2022) and Honorary Professor, Jordan University of Science and Technology. For more than three decades he coordinated teaching and research in Structural Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where he was appointed Full Professor of Civil Engineering in 1998 and in 2007 Chair of the Civil Engineering Department till 2011. That year he was appointed Chaired Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems, School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK, where since then systematically works on the adaptation of Artificial Intelligence to Civil Engineering Infrastructure with focus on the Wind Energy Infrastructure. Professor Baniotopoulos successfully carried out 65 international research projects, he was the TU1304 COST Action-Chair (2014-18) and currently the CA20109-Vice-Chair (2021-25). He is author/editor of 25 scientific books, and 480 scientific papers. Baniotopoulos was also delegate at a plethora of International Organisations and Editorial Board member in 12 prominent Engineering journals. He collaborates with a plethora of leading Technical Universities from all EU countries and around the world. |
Webpage: | https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/civil/baniotopoulos-charalampos.aspx |
Title: | Associate Professor Dr |
Name and Surname: | Mitja Košir |
University: | University of Ljubljana |
Topic of the lecture: | The Role and Importance of Climate Change Adaptability in the Age of High-Tech Buildings |
Short biography: | Mitja Košir is an associate professor at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and head of Chair of Buildings and Constructional Complexes at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering. He is lecturing on building energy efficiency, daylighting, building envelope design, environmental impacts of buildings, intelligent building systems and indoor environment at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering and the Faculty of Health Sciences. Previously, he was also a visiting professor at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy). His research focuses on building energy performance under past, current and future projected climatic conditions, daylighting and non-image-forming impacts of light in the built environment, bioclimatic design and evaluating the environmental effects of buildings. He is currently researching bioclimatic climate adaptability under projected global warming, coupled thermal and visual performance of buildings, and projected future building performance, focusing on climate adaptability. He has co-authored more than 40 scientific papers and 40 conference papers. He has published a book, Climate Adaptability of Buildings: Bioclimatic Design in the Light of Climate Change, by Springer. |
Title: | Full Professor, Ph.D, MSc (Civ.Eng) and Lawyer |
Name and Surname: | Nenad Ivanišević |
University: | University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering |
Topic of the lecture: | Claims and Dispute Resolutions on Construction Projects
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Short biography: | Nenad Ivanišević is a full professor and the Head of the Department of Construction Project Management at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia. In his professional and scientific work, he deals with various aspects of construction project management, especially regarding legal and financial issues on large projects based on FIDIC conditions of contract. He also possesses a designers license issued by the Serbian Chamber of Engineers. He is the author of many relevant scientific and professional papers in various areas of project management. Beside lecturing, for over 35 years he is actively involved in preparation and execution of large construction projects. Last fifteen years he managed or held key positions (mainly as FIDIC Engineer or Contract and Claims Expert) on large infrastructure projects including motorways (Corridor X and Miloš Veliki in Serbia and Podgorica-Mateševo in Montenegro), wind power plants and public buildings. Since 2006 he is an appointed expert court witness in the field of construction and gave his expert opinions in a significant number of court cases and international arbitrations. He was also named as adjudicator or a member of DAB-s on a number of large construction projects in Serbia and in the region. |
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Title: | Prof. Dr.Sci. MSc, C. Eng. |
Name and Surname: | Vlastimir Radonjanin |
University: | University of Novi Sad |
Topic of the lecture: | An engineering challenge: revitalizing a 120-year-old concrete water tower |
Short biography: | Vlastimir Radonjanin was Director of Department of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Chair of Cathedra of building materials, assessment and repair of structures and Head of Laboratory for testing of materials and structures at Faculty of Technical Sciences – University of Novi Sad. He is specialist in assessment and repair of structures, building materials and technology of concrete and published a number of papers in these fields. He devoted most of his professional career to complex engineering tasks. As a responsible designer, he did over 200 studies, expertise, projects, and testing of structures. He led or participated in more than 25 national, international scientific, and research projects including Erasmus, IPA-Interreg, Eureka, COST and Bilateral. He has published more than 500 scientific papers in national and international conferences and in national and international journals. In SCI journals, he published 30 scientific papers and was cited more than 1900 times in international journals. He is co-author of the paper that got the award “best conference paper” at the Stockholm 20th International conference “Architectural, Civil and Environmental Engineering” in 2018. Also, he is co-author the paper which got the award “best research paper” at the Edinburgh International conference “Structural Faults and Repair” in 2012. He got first award for the best scientific innovation in Serbia in 2007 “New waterproof barrier for masonry structures” (competition organized by the Ministry of science and technology of Serbia). |
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Paulo Cachim is professor with Habilitation in the Civil Engineering Department of University of Aveiro, Portugal, and he teaches Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete Structures and Timber Construction.
Dean of Civil Engineering Department (from 2011 to 2015); Course Director of Doctoral Program in Civil Engineering; Course Director of Master in Civil Engineering; Erasmus coordinator at the Civil Engineering Department.
He participated in the creation of the Research Unit RISCO. He is director of the research unit at the department.
He was invited researcher at University of Gent, Belgium (2017), University of Liege, Belgium (2008) and he is the author of 5 books, 2 book chapters, 40 articles in international scientific journals, 8 articles in Portuguese journals and more than 100 articles in international and national conferences; Editor of 1 international book.
Supervision of 8 concluded PhD theses and more than 50 master dissertations; Participation in European projects and Portuguese competitive funding projects; Member of organising and scientific commission of national and international conferences; Scientific reviewer of more than 100 articles for 30 international scientific journals.
Structural and consultant engineer, having participated in the design/review of buildings, viaducts, bridges and dams.
He loves teaching, travel, photography and… Montenegro.
Prof. Jelena Dobrić
Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia
web page: Jelena Dobrić
Speech Title:
Stability criteria for stainless steel equal-leg angle columns
Jelena Dobrić, BEng MSc PhD, is associate professor at University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering She has significant lecturing experience in the courses and practical classes of bachelor and master programmes in Civil Engineering in the Department of material and structures. Over the past years, she has led a scientific research group exploring the structural behaviours of metallic structures, with a special interest in stainless steel. Her team developed new design guidance for the flexural and flexural-torsional buckling of stainless steel channel, lipped-channel and equal-leg angle columns. She also branched into the research area of duplex stainless steel bolted connections. Advanced analytical and computational analysis were combined with experimental methods to perform both fundamental and applied research. She is a member of the International Scientific Committee of SDSS Colloquium – 2022 and IABSE Symposium – 2022. She has strong academic knowledge and deep insight into world-wide technical regulations in the area of metallic structures. She is a member of the stainless steel working group CEN/TC 250/SC 3/WG 4 and the committee of Serbian Institute for Standardization for steel, composite and aluminium structures. She also has specialized experience in the design and detailing of metallic and composite structures, she has participated as head designer or design team member in producing a large number of conceptual projects and detailed designs. She is a member of Serbian Chamber of Engineers for state licence exam and mentor for professional assignments in the field of steel and composite structures.
Prof. Luisa María Gil-Martín
ETSICCP, University of Granada, Spain
web page: Luisa Maria Gil-Martin
Speech Title:
Origin of the catenary, the true form of the arch: Taq-i Kisra
Luisa María Gil-Martín is PhD Civil Engineering from the University of Granada and full-professor at this university. She is the head of the laboratory of Structural Engineering and author of around 100 journal papers. Her research is about several topics in the field of Structural Mechanics, among others: steel and concrete structures, tensegrities, optimization of structures, and instability of structures. She is also co-authors of two books (in Spanish) about concrete and steel structures.
Prof. Enrique Hernández-Montes
ETSICCP, University of Granada, Spain
web page: Enrique Hernandez-Montes
Speech Title:
Origin of the catenary, the true form of the arch: Taq-i Kisra
Enrique Hernández-Montes is PhD Civil Engineering from the University of Granada and full-professor at this university. Author of more 100 journal papers and 3 textbooks. His research is about several topics in the field of Structural Mechanics, among others: earthquake engineering, steel and concrete structures, tensegrities, optimization of structures, and instability of structures.
Prof. Hartmut Pasternak
Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
web page: Hartmut Pasternak
Speech Title:
Extraordinary steel buildings in Germany
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Hartmut Pasternak from the Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany, is involved in teaching, research and design of steel structures for more than 30 years. He is member of several National and International Committees (e.g. full member of the ECCS Technical Committee 8 “Structural Stability”). He has participated in numerous research projects (e.g. on thin-walled members, welding stresses and adhesive bonded joints). Under his supervision 20 PhDs were completed. Prof. Pasternak has more than 200 publications in Journals and at Conferences and is co-author of five books in German and English on steel structures. Moreover he is the editor of the journal “Bauingenieur” for steel structures.
Svetislav Popović, M.Sc.
Ingenieurbüro Stengel, Munich, Germany
web page: Svetislav Popović
Speech Title:
State of the art in the design of roller-coasters
Svetislav Popović was born in 1988 in Bijelo Polje, Montenegro. He completed his primary and secondary education in Bijelo Polje and Belgrade, Serbia. He finished his primary education as the best student in the generation at “Vladislav Sl. Ribnikar” in Rasovo, in 2003. After that, he obtained a high school degree at the “Gymnasium Miloje Dobrašinović” and “XII Belgrade Gymnasium” (IV grade), in 2007. He graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade in 2013.
Master’s thesis entitled “Static and dynamic analysis of laminated composite beams”, under the mentorship of prof. dr. Đorđe Vuksanović, was defended in October 2014 at the Department of Technical Mechanics and Theory of Structures of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade. He enrolled in PhD studies of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Montenegro in 2021.
After completing master studies, he was awarded a scholarship by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany at the company Europoles from Neumarkt i.d. Opf. in which he was employed in the period 2015-2018. Since 2019, he has been a member of the team at the Ingenieurbüro Stengel in Munich, which specializes in the design and analysis of attractions in amusement parks. Apart from project-work, he is also engaged in scientific research in the fields of theory of structures, special wind actions and in the field of steel fatigue.
In addition to his mother language, he speaks English and German.
Prof. Ivana Štimac Grandić
Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia
web page: Ivana Štimac Grandić
Speech Title:
Vibration serviceability of footbridges: current state and commentary on codes, norms and guidelines
Ivana Štimac Grandić, Ph.D. is Full Professor in Civil Engineering, Technical Sciences at Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka.
She is a researcher in fields of damage detection in structures, vibration of flexible structures (especially bridges) and improvement of design methods for ribbed bridge structures. As a part of her scientific activities, she was the Leader of two and Participant in six research projects. She has published the results of scientific research in a total of over 40 scientific papers in international scientific journals and more than 20 papers in proceedings of international and domestic scientific conferences and more than 50 peer reviews of articles in journals and scientific conferences as well. She is a member of the editorial boards of four scientific journals and of the scientific and organizing committees of scientific conferences.
Since her employment at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, she has continuously participated in teaching activities, mainly in the courses of the Department of Structural Engineering (Wooden Structures I, Bridges, Concrete Bridges, Testing of Structures, Design of Building Structures and Structural Damage Assessment Using Nondestructive Methods) and the Department of Engineering Mechanics (Mechanics I, Mechanics II, Structural Modelling). Since 2010, she has been a mentor on more than 40 graduate theses and published 16 papers as co-authors with students. She published 2 teaching papers. Since October of 2015 till September of 2021 she has been the dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Rijeka.