Matej Fischinger (born in 1954) is a Professor of Earthquake Engineering and Reinforced Concrete Structures at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. He is a Member of the Slovenian Academic Society of Technical and Natural Sciences and the Vice-president of the Slovenian Association for Earthquake Engineering. His research has been concerned with earthquake resistant design of RC structures and the inelastic design procedures. He is the co-author of the N2 method, proposed in 1989 in his Ph.D. dissertation supervised by Professor Fajfar. For the related research work they got the highest research award in the Republic of Slovenia. Since then the N2 method, which was recently incorporated into Eurocode 8, has become one of the leading push-over methods in earthquake engineering. His current interest is in the seismic resistance of bridges, RC industrial buildings and structural walls, performance-based design methodologies, the Eurocode, and the use of information technology in education. Using inelastic macro-models the research group led by Matej Fischinger made several successful benchmark predictions of the response of RC structural walls. As a designer, consultant or reviewer, he has participated in many design projects (in particular of high-rise apartment buildings, bridges, industrial buildings, precast buildings, NPP Krsko and related buildings). He has been very active in the development of the EC8 and its introduction as a National code in Slovenia. Slovenia was the first country to adopt Eurocodes as the national code on January 1, 2008. He wrote the commentary for the RC section. He has actively participated in the recent modifications of the design rules for prefabricated structures in EC8. These results are based on extensive research within several EU research projects, where Matej Fischinger served as the Slovenian co-ordinator.