Professor Marko Kegl earned his PhD degree (1991) at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. He teaches and conducts research in the area of mechanics and computational engineering. His research focuses on the optimization of mechanical systems with emphasis on the optimization of time-dependent mechanical systems as well as the sizing, shape, and topology optimization of statically loaded structures. He is Head of the Laboratory for Applied Mechanics at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Maribor. Professor Marko Kegl conducted one year of his postdoctoral research at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is the author of over 50 original scientific papers, two books (Springer Nature Publisher) and a book chapter (Nova Science Publishers).