Aleksandar SEDMAK, Professor emeritus, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Visiting professor at Drexel University, USA, 1999-2002. Assistant Minister for Science and Technology Development in Serbian government 2003-2006. Vice-rector for international cooperation, University of Belgrade, 2006-2009. Director of Innovation Center of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade, 2006-2021. He was advisor for 62 D.Sc. thesis. He has published 148 papers in WoS journals, 339 papers in Scopus database with 2281 citations (h=22), more than 300 papers at prestigious international conferences, number of textbooks and monographs. He is the President of the European Structural Integ¬rity Society (ESIS), member of editor boards and reviewer of a number of prominent world journals in Fracture Mechanics, and the Chairman of European Conference on Fracture (ECF22), Belgrade, 2018. He has been the guest editor of special issues of Engineering Failure Analysis, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics and International Journal of Fatigue. Prof. Sedmak honorary professor at Brasov University, Romania, foreign member of Hungarian Academy of Engineering Sciences, full member of Serbian Academy of Engineering Sciences, honorary member of Italian Group on Fracture (IGF). He delivered many invited lectures and seminars worldwide. His main research fields are weldment fracture mechanics, risk based analysis of engineering materials and structures, numerical methods in fracture mechanics, structural integrity assessment.