Matej Brešar

**Slovensko:**\\Matej Brešar je profesor matematike na Fakulteti za matematiko in fiziko Univerze v Ljubljani in Fakulteti za naravoslovje in matematiko Univerze v Mariboru. Doktoriral je leta 1990 na Univerzi v Ljubljani. Njegovo osnovno raziskovalno področje je nekomutativna algebra. Je avtor ali soavtor približno 130 znanstvenih člankov in soavtor znanstvene monografije o funkcijskih identitetah. Leta 1995 je prejel Državno nagrado za znanstveno-raziskovalno delo. **English:**\\Matej Brešar is a Professor of Mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, and at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor. He received the Ph.D. degree in 1990 from the University of Ljubljana. His basic research area is noncommutative algebra. He is the author or coauthor of approximately 130 mathematical papers, and the coauthor of a research monograph on functional identities. In 1995 he received the State Award of the Republic of Slove