Slovensko:
Peter Fajfar je profesor za Teorijo konstrukcij in Potresno inženirstvo na Fakulteti za gradbeništvo in geodezijo Univerze v Ljubljani. Je redni član Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti, Inženirske akademije Slovenije in Evropske akademije znanosti (EAS, Belgija). Raziskovalno se ukvarja predvsem z analizo in projektiranjem konstrukcij pri potresni obtežbi. Bil je dekan fakultete in gostujoči profesor na več uglednih univerzah, med drugim na Stanford univerzi. Je eden od treh urednikov mednarodne revije Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics in član uredniških odborov šest drugih mednarodnih revij. Bil je predsednik Zveze društev za potresno inženirstvo v bivši Jugoslaviji in prvi predsednik Slovenskega društva za potresno inženirstvo. Je član izvršnega odbora Mednarodnega združenja za potresno inženirstvo in častni član Evropskega združenja za potresno inženirstvo. Aktivno je vključen v pripravo evropskega standarda za potresno odpornost objektov Evrokod 8 in vodi vpeljavo tega standarda v Sloveniji. Sodeluje pri zahtevnih razvojnih in strokovnih nalogah za prakso.

English:
Peter Fajfar is Professor of Structural and Earthquake Engineering at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a member of the Slovenian Academy of Engineering and a member of the European Academy of Sciences (Belgium). His main research interest is analysis and design of structures for earthquake loads. He was the dean of the Faculty and a visiting professor at several prestigious universities, including Stanford University. He is one out of three Editors of the international journal Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics and a member of editorial boards of six international journals. He was the president of the Yugoslav Association of Earthquake Engineering and the founding President of the Slovenian Association of Earthquake Engineering. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Earthquake Engineering and a honorary member of the European Association of Earthquake Engineering. He has been actively involved in the preparation of the European standard for earthquake resistant structures Eurocode 8 and leads the implementation of this standard in Slovenia. As a designer, consultant and/or reviewer, he has participated large number of projects for industry.