Prof. Dr. Dragoslav Sumarac is full professor at the University of Belgrade (UB) and the State University of Novi Pazar (SUNP). He graduated in the field of structural mechanics from the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, in 1979. He obtained his PhD at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, 1985, in the field of damage mechanics. Up to now, he was advisor for seven PhD theses. He is an editor of the International Journal of Damage Mechanics (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/international-journal-damage-mechanics#editorial-board). He has been a member of the European Academy of Science since 2010 (www.eurasc.org). Prof. Sumarac is one of the three founders of the International Conference on Damage Mechanics, which was first organized in Belgrade in 2012 (http://www.icdm.rs/icdm/), and then, in Troyes France in 2015 (http://icdm2.utt.fr/directors.htm).