Jaka Zevnik finished his civil engineering studies in 2002 at the University of Ljubljana. He started his career as a technologist at Gradis GP and soon became a researcher at the Institute for Constructions, seismic engineering, and Computation of the University of Ljubljana, where he involved himself in the studies of seismic vulnerability of reinforced concrete viaducts with boxy pillars and defended his doctoral thesis in 2007.

Within the project VAST-IMAGE, he worked on developing a new device for semi-active seismic isolation of viaducts and buildings, based on magneto-rheological elastomers.

Jaka Zevnik is head of the department for Engineering structures at Elea iC and a responsible design engineer working on several demanding projects, like the Northern Gate S1, Ljubljana, viaduct Kresnica, footbridge Medvode, etc. He is actively consulting on the non-linear analysis of tunnel tubes.