Božidar Šarler was born in 1957 in Maribor, Slovenia. He is since 2001 Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Head of Laboratory for Multiphase Processes, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. He was previously employed for seven years at the University of Ljubljana, and for eleven years at the Jožef  Stefan Institute.

He received his Ph.D. in technical sciences from the University of  Maribor, Slovenia in 1991. He worked abroad cumulative for more than four years as a researcher in Centre of Nuclear Studies, Saclay, University Erlangen-Nürenberg,  Nürenberg, Argonne National Laboratories, Chicago, and as a visiting professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, University of  Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, and Polish Academy of  Sciences, Warsaw.

His present research interest is computational modeling of materials and processes, development of numerical methods and physical models for multiphase systems, modelling, simulation, verification and optimization of continuous casting of aluminum alloys and steel. He was responsible for modernization and introduction of computational modelling in several Slovenian steelworks and aluminium plants and collaborated in similar projects abroad (Czech Republic, Finland). He published more than 50 scientific papers and book chapters, more than 100 conference papers, and edited 4 books with selected papers from international conferences. He contributed to more than 250 technical reports.

He has managed several international projects within COST, and 5th and 6th E.U. frameworks, NATO and National Academies, USA.

He received the following awards and recognitions: 2006 - Slovenian state award Janez Puh for Modelling of materials and processes, 2005 - Best paper selection, Eurotherm 82 conference, Krakow, 2004 - Best paper selection, ECCOMAS conference, Jyvaskyla, 2003 - Best paper award in Liquid-Solid processing, COST-526 conference, Budapest, 1998 - Recognition of  Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana for Outstanding basic and applied research, 1997 - Best paper selection, 10 Int.Conf. Numerical Methods in Heat Transfer, Swansea, 1987 - Best paper award for Nuclear engineering, ETAN Conference, Sarajevo.

He is a member of the editorial boards of the following journals and book series: Computer Methods in Engineering and Sciences, Computers Materials Continua, Electronic Journal of Boundary Elements, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Advances in Heat Transfer. He served in scientific committees of more than 50 international conferences.

He has organised the following international conferences: 2003 - Eurotherm 69: Heat and Mass Transfer in Solid-Liquid Phase Change Processes, 2001 - Moving Boundaries VI, Lemnos, 1999 - Moving Boundaries V, Bistra, 1995- Moving Boundaries III, Bled, 1995 -Heat and Mass Transfer in Solidification (COST-512), Bled and served in scientific advisory boards of more than 50 international conferences.