Prof. Dr. Matjaž Mikoš graduated from the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana (UL FGG), in 1983 in civil engineering (with a major in hydraulic engineering), and obtained his Doctorate in Technical Sciences at ETH Zürich in 1993. He holds professorships in Hydrology and in Hydraulic Engineering, and works as a Certified Civil Engineer. From 2009 to 2012, he served as the Dean of UL FGG. Today, he serves as a Member of the University of Ljubljana Management Board. His expertise goes from sediment transport, torrent hydraulics, mass movements, and soil erosion to flood risk management and natural hazard mitigation, including landslide disaster risk reduction. He is active in the research society INTERPRAEVENT, Klagenfurt, Austria. From 2014 to 2019, he was appointed Chairman of the Slovenian National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. Since 2016, he has been Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair on Water-related Disaster Risk Reduction, and since 2019, he has been Chairman of the Slovenian National Committee for the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme. He served two three-year terms as the Vice President of the International Consortium on Landslides, Kyoto, Japan, and since 2022, he has been Chairman of the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL) and Kyoto 2020 Commitment for Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction.