Boris Vladimirovič Gusev

President of the Russian Academy of Engineering, Russia

After graduating in railway engineering, Professor Gusev received his doctorate in soil mechanics and foundations. He began his scientific career at the University of Dnepropetrovsk, where he focused on improving the quality of reinforced concrete structures for residential construction. He extended his area of activity to research into concrete durability and vibration processes. He was entrusted with building new facilities for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, making new types of structures and developing new technologies for their manufacture, building new residential neighborhoods, and building unique buildings and structures that contribute to Moscow’s architecture. Later, professor Gusev led one of the most important development programs of reinforced concrete structures in the USSR and Russia.

Professor Gusev’s collaboration with Slovenian scientists began in 1995, with the Centre for Experimental Mechanics. As a co-supervisor, he participated in the education of several doctoral students who came from Russia to study for a doctorate at the University of Ljubljana.

Prof. Gusev is the President of the Russian Academy of Engineering, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an honorary scientist of the Russian Federation, a recipient of the Russian Government Awards for Science and Education.