Dr. Marko Topalovic received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kragujevac, in 2006, and his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, in 2016, with a doctoral dissertation titled "Numerical Modeling of Granular Materials." From 2011 to 2019, he held research positions at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, where he was involved in project TR32036 "Software Development for Solving Coupled Multi-Physics Problems," funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, focusing on the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method and its coupling with the Finite Element Method (FEM). He is currently a Research Associate at the Institute for Information Technologies, University of Kragujevac, where he is engaged in the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia project PROMINENT – "Prediction of Damage Evolution in Engineering Structures." His research interests include SPH, FEM, granular materials, numerical analysis, software development, and experimental validation.