**About the Editors**

### **Aleksander Yevtushenko**

Aleksander Yevtushenko is a professor in the Department of Mechanics and Applied Computer Science at Bialystok University of Technology (BUT), Poland. He received his PhD in mechanics from the Institute for Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Lviv in 1979. He became a full professor in 2002. He is the director of doctoral studies at BUT and has supervised eight doctoral degree theses. He is a specialist in the field of the thermomechanics and mechanics of damage and cracking. He is the author and co-author of numerous books and scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals.

### **Michal Kuciej**

Michał Kuciej is a professor working at Bialystok University of Technology (BUT) in Poland. He obtained his doctoral degree in mechanics in 2008, and became a full professor in 2020. He is a specialist in the field of computer methods in mechanics, especially in thermomechanics. He has participated in numerous national and international research projects and different scientific conferences and congresses. He has published many articles in scientific journals. He became a dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at BUT in 2023.
