Alar Just is a professor at Tallinn University of Technology and a researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. He completed his dissertation on fire resistance of timber frame assemblies in 2010. 

Dr. Just has been working as a Chief Engineer at the structural design office for 15 years where lead the design of many timber buildings and bridges. From 2010 he works as a researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden where his research is related to fire resistance of timber structures. He has conducted more than 250 fire tests. Dr. Just is a professor of Structural Engineering at Tallinn University of Technology. He is currently supervising 4 PhD students in the field of fire resistance of timber structures and reclaimed timber structures. Beside home university he has regular courses at Linneaus University. Dr. Just is reviewer for several scientific journals, in the scientific board of the conferences Structures in Fire, Wood Building Forum and Wood and Fire. 

Alar Just is a head of Estonian delegation in CEN TC 250 SC 5 and member of the Estonian mirror committee EVS TK13. He is a vice chair of the Project Team TC250 – SC5.T4, drafting the next generation of EN 1995-1-2.