Matjaž Perc is currently a Professor of physics at the University of Maribor, staff researcher at the Community Healthcare Center Dr. Adolf Drolc Maribor, Adjunct Professor at Kyung Hee University and Korea University, and External faculty member at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna. He is a member of Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and is among the top 1% most cited physicists according to 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 Clarivate Analytics data. He is also the 2015 recipient of the Young Scientist Award for Socio and Econophysics from the German Physical Society, and the 2017 USERN Laureate. In 2018, he received the Zois Award, which is the highest national research award in Slovenia. In 2019, he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Since 2021, he has also been Vice-Dean of Natural Sciences at the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.