Antonio Formisano is Aggregate Professor of Structural Design at the Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture of the University of Naples Federico II, where he is also teacher within the 2nd level International Masters “Emerging Technologies for Construction”, “Design of Steel” and “Sustainable Constructions under Natural Hazards and Catastrophic Events”. He has been involved in several national and international research projects. He is editorial board member and reviewer of numerous international journals. Antonio Formisano is author of more than 200 scientific papers; published in national, international journals and conference proceedings. He received several awards and public acknowledgements for his scientific research activity.

Professor Hong Guan is Head of Civil Engineering on Gold Coast Campus of Griffith University. She is also an Executive Committee Member of Australian Network on Structural Health Monitoring. Her research focuses on failure and progressive collapse analyses of concrete flat plate structures, bridge deterioration modelling and intelligent system for Level-2 bridge condition inspections. She has co-authored 1 research monograph on “Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Civil Infrastructures: From Tall Buildings to Urban Areas” with Springer, 2 edited books, 4 book chapters, and over 110 ISI papers and 130 peer-reviewed conference papers. She has also won multiple teaching excellence awards.

Francesco Tornabene (nicknamed by his students: "The Lord of The Shells") got degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2003,. Ph.D. in "Structural Mechanics" from the University of Bologna in 2007. He has been serving as Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna since 2012 with habilitation as Associate Professor in the Areas 08/B2 and 09/A1 (2017). He has co-authored more than 100 ISI papers. His research focuses on Structural Mechanics and Computational Mechanics.

Dr. Reza Kianoush, Ph.D., P.Eng., is Professor in Civil Engineering at Ryerson University, Canada. His research interests involve Analytical Modeling of Reinforced Concrete Structures Subjected to Earthquake Loading, Earthquake-resistant Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Performance-based Design of Concrete Liquid Containing Structures, Seismic Rehabilitation and Repair of Concrete Structures, and Non-linear Finite Element Analysis and Modeling of Reinforced Concrete Structures. Dr. Kianoush’s current list of projects involve: (1) Crack and leakage control criteria in liquid containing structures (experimental and analytical), (2) Temperature and shrinkage effects in liquid containing structures, (3) Response modification factors in liquid containing structures (analytical and experimental), (4) Seismic retrofitting of reinforced concrete structures, and (5) Seismic level of protection of reinforced concrete structures.

Gabriele Milani is a Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano (2019-present). Previously, he worked as Associate Professor at the same place (2014-2019) and Researcher (2008-2014). He remained a Post-Doctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich (2008). His research focuses on masonry modeling and safety assessment of historic masonry in seismic area. His work focuses on FEM limit analysis, rubber vulcanization and seismic isolation. He has been awarded with a Telford Premium (2012) by ICE, a Bathe Award (2014) and the most cited author diploma for a paper in Computers and Structures (2006). He has co-authored more than 250 Scopus indexed papers (accession date: 25/06/2021). He is the EIC of The Open Civil Engineering Journal and International Journal of Masonry Research and Innovation.

Pr. A. TOUNSI works in Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Technology, University of Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria. His specialization is in Mathematical Modeling of Mechanical behavior of Composite Structures. His Research Interest is in Non-local Elasticity, FEM, Composite Structures, Functionally graded Materials, Nanostructures and Nano-Biology. He is editorial board member of 7 renowned scientific journals. He has around 160 publications/contributions in internationally recognized journals and book chapters to his credit.

Mahmoud Bayat received a Ph.D. degree in Earthquake and Structural engineering. Dr. Bayat has published more than 90 peer-reviewed journal papers on these topics (H-index: 22). For the past ten years, Dr. Bayat was extensively involved in research related to : Resilience-Based Design of Structures; Bayesian Statistics (Railway Systems, Structures, Bridges); Multi-Hazard Reliability/Risk Analysis of Bridges and Structures; Health Monitoring of Bridges/Structures; Analytical and Semi-Analytical Methods in Nonlinear Vibrations.

Elio Sacco is full professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the DiSt, University of Naples Federico II. He is author of more than 150 indexed papers, covering a wide range of subjects in the fields of theoretical and computational mechanics, material constitutive modeling, micromechanics and homogenization techniques, mechanics of masonry, and computational mechanics of structures.

Antonio Albuquerque is Associate Professor and senior researcher in the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the University of Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal), the Fiber Materials and Environmental Technologies (FibEnTech) research center (UBI) and the GeoBioSciences, GeoTechnologies and GeoEngineering (GeoBioTec) research center (UBI). He is the author or co-author of approximately 300 publications, including books, book chapters, journal papers, conference proceedings papers, technical reports and academic texts. His research interest includes: Nutrient removal in biofilm processes; Wastewater induced bio clogging in porous materials; Carbon-based photobioreactors for water recovery and biomass valorisation; Sustainable water use and reuse; Mineral, agroindustrial and industrial wastes valorisation.

Edoardo Artioli graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2002, he completed the PhD program in Structural Mechanics from the University of Bologna in 2006. He became postdoctoral research associate at the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computer Science of the Italian Research council in Pavia, in 2006 and 2007. In March 2008, Dr. Artioli joined the Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Rome – Tor Vergata where he has been serving as assistant professor of solid and structural mechanics.

Madani Bederina got his PhD in Civil Engineering Materials from the National Polytechnic School of Algiers, Algeria in 2007. He obtained his “University Habilitation” degree in 2009, then the rank of professor in 2013. Currently, he works as a research teacher at the University of Laghouat, Algeria. He is heavily involved in the experimental and theoretical research of building materials. His works led to many national and international publications in several peer-reviewed journals and many national and international conferences. His research activities concern the new concretes, new lightweight concretes, valorisation of local materials, reuse of wastes, durability, etc.

Dr. Bosco obtained a Ph.D in structural engineering from the University of Catania, where she is currently assistant professor. Dr. Bosco’s main research interests are the proposal of design procedures and assessment of the seismic behavior of steel structures, the assessment of the seismic response of regular and in-plan irregular buildings by nonlinear static methods and dynamic analysis, the proposal of design methods for the seismic upgrade of existing buildings and the development of numerical models. She is the reviewer for many scientific journals and author of more than 120 publications, several of which are published in international journals.

José Manuel Cabrero is a Doctor Architect and Director of Wood Chair at University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. His current research lines (or lines of investigation) include efficient design of wooden structures, and semi-rigid joints in steel structures. He works and directs several research projects related to new developments for wood structures: reinforced wood tubes, rolled / forged; and has also worked on European research projects funded by ECSC related to construction and steel structure. He has investigated the behavior of beam-pillar joints and the new fields opened by Eurocode 3.

Constantin E. Chalioris, Civil engineer, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor in Reinforced Concrete (RC), Director of the Structural Engineering Division, Civil Engineering Dept., Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He is teaching 8 undergraduate and 3 postgraduate courses. He is the supervisor of 5 PhDs. He has been a reviewer in 50 peer-reviewed international journals. He has research experience in Design-Analysis of RC structures; Testing; Repair/Strengthening techniques (resin injections, FRPs, SCC, Jacketing); Torsional-Shear analysis; Steel-Fibrous-Concrete; Damage detection and real-time structural integrity assessment of RC members using piezoelectric sensors. He is the author or co-author in more than 90 journals, chapters in books and conference papers. He has over 400 citations (excluding self-citations) with an h-index: 11 (Scopus), 13.

Dr. Chiara Bedon is an Assistant Professor in University of Trieste, Department of Engineering and Architecture, Italy. Her research activities are focused on the development of design approaches and analytical methods for structural systems (a) advanced Finite Element numerical modeling of structures under extreme loads, including blast, seismic events, fire (b)  analysis and design of structural glass systems and facades (c) use of innovative materials or components for the improvement of the static/dynamic behavior of structures. Dr. Bedon is Co-Author of more than 120 peer-reviewed scientific publications, including 65 journal papers, various conference papers, several technical documents, guidelines, book chapters, and editorials.

Dr. Cosmin G. Chiorean is Professor of Structural Engineering at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania with habilitation as PhD supervisor (2013). His research interests focus on improving the computational methods for design of civil structures. He has published over 70 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and is the main developer of a FE software package GFAS (A Finite Element System for Geotechnical Applications). He serves as editor in chief of the journal Acta Technica Napocensis: Civil Engineering & Architecture and as editorial board member of several international journals in the filed of structural engineering and computational mechanics.

He obtained the five-year Master of Sciences in Civil Engineering with full marks at the Polytechnic University of Marche (UNIVPM) in 2005 and earned the Ph.D. Degree at UNIVPM during the academic year 2008-2009. He is Assistant Professor of Solids and Structural Mechanics at UNIVPM since 2012. He developed research and teaching activities at the Universities of Ancona, Camerino, Lublin and Sao Paulo. He is the author and co-author of more than 80 scientific papers, and editorial member and reviewer of numerous International Journals.

Dr. Ramadhansyah Putra Jaya obtained his Ph.D. Eng. degree (in 2011) in Concrete Technology from Universiti Sains Malaysia, George Town, Malaysia. Dr. Jaya is currently employed as Associate Professor, in the Faculty of Civil Engineering & Earth Resources, at Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Gambang, Malaysia. His research interests mainly lie in the following subject areas/fields: Environmental Impact Assessment; Engineering, Applied and Computational Mathematics; Construction Engineering; Structural Analysis; Construction Materials; Building Materials; Civil Engineering Materials. Dr. Jaya, as an author/co-author, has published more than 160 articles in various journals, having over 725 total citations.

Megat Azmi Megat Johari (M.A. Megat Johari) is currently a Professor at the School of Civil Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He obtained his MSc and PhD from the University of Leeds. His research focusses on the broad area of concrete materials and technology with emphasis on supplementary cementitious materials, high strength and high performance concrete, alkaline activated binders and geopolymers, as well as concrete repair, evaluation and retrofitting. He has supervised 15 PhD and 9 MSc students. He has published more than 40 papers in ISI indexed journals.

Zdeněk Kala is a Professor, at Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Structural Mechanics. His research interest includes: sensitivity analysis of steel structures, stability of steel structures, reliability analysis of building structures, limit states of building structures, nonlinear structural mechanics. He is author or co-author of more than 60 ISI papers in the field of civil engineering. He is an editorial board member of scientific impacted "Journal Civil Engineering and Management" (since 2011), scientific journal "Engineering Structures and Technologies" (since 2012), guest member of editorial board of scientific impacted journal "Mathematical Problems in Engineering" (2015).

Said KENAI is currently a Professor of concrete technology and building materials at the civil engineering department, University Saâd Dahleb-Blida1, Algeria. He obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds (UK) in 1988. He is the chairman of the civil engineering research laboratory, a member of ACI, a founding member of the African Materials Research Society (MRS-Africa) and a member of RILEM TC-ISC (In situ strength assessment of concrete). His main research interests include concrete durability, cement replacement materials, reuse of waste, earth constructions, self-compacting concrete and repair and strengthening of structures.

Dr. Keivan Kiani got B.Sc. degree in civil engineering from Isfahan University of Technology on 1999. Subsequently, he was awarded M.Sc, and Ph.D. degrees with major in structural engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2002 and 2010, respectively. The expert field of Dr. Kiani is modeling of structures range from nano- to macro- scales. His current research is focused on the wave propagation in, vibrations and dynamic instability of nanostructures using advanced elasticity theories. To date, he has published more than 90 ISI papers in a diverse range of engineering, applied mathematics, and physics journals.

Jyant Kumar PhD is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. His h-index is 20He is a Professor in the Geotechnical Engineering. He works in the area of Computational Geomechanics, Soil Dynamics and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Geophysics, Numerical simulation to assess the stability of tunnels. He has published more than about 150 papers in several top class international journals and has been on the editorial board of several international journals. He has supervised more than a dozen PhD students.

Dr Kwan is a Professor in Structural Mechanics and Deputy Head of School at Cardiff University, School of Engineering, UK. He obtained his first degree from Sheffield University and PhD from Cambridge University, working on deployable structures.” He has 100 publications across the fields of Deployable Structures (structural morphology, foldable structures, pantographic structures, prestress analysis, mechanisms, kinematics), Structural Optimisation (evolutionary algorithms, layout/shape optimisation), Geometric Nonlinearity (fabric/membrane/cable structures, cablenets) and Sustainable Informatics (telemetry, control systems, optimisation, predictive simulation, networks, web-based real-time decision support systems, Material Flow Analysis).

Massimo Latour got his PhD from the University of Salerno in 2011with a thesis entitled "Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Dissipative Beam-to-Column Joints in Moment Resisting Steel Frames”. In the same year, he became a post-doctoral fellow at Salerno where he is currently working and teaching civil engineering with professorship contracts. He is heavily involved in experimental and theoretical research. His contribution to the scientific community is demonstrated by the works published in peer-reviewed journals and in national and international conferences. His research activity mainly deals with seismic design, connections’ behavior, wooden and steel structures, finite element modeling and the development of strategies for supplemental damping in seismic zone.

Dr Jun Li is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at Curtin University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2012. He is developing new technologies for monitoring the conditions of ageing infrastructure and a sustainable infrastructure asset management approach in the context of smart sensing, emerging artificial intelligence techniques and big data analytics. He has been a guest editor for 9 journals and an editorial board member for several international journals.

Jian-Fei Lu earned his Ph.D from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2000 with major in solid mechanics. He is now a professor of Faculty of Civil Engineering and Mechanics of Jiangsu University in China. Prof. Lu is teaching in solid mechanics, soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering. He has now published more than 100 journal papers, more than half of which are international journal papers.

Prof. Giuseppe Carlo MARANO, PhD is a Chair of Structural Engineering and Deputy Director in the Department of Structural, Geotechnical and Building Engineering. He is a member of SISCON - Centre for Safety of Infrastructures and Constructions. He is a structural engineer, internationally recognized for his research and expertise in the field of structural optimization in new or existing buildings or bridges and in the identification and characterization of bridges and structures and seismic protection. He participated in several European project funded research projects as a COST Action TU1406. Giuseppe Carlo MARANO has co-authored more than 150 journal papers and about 200 conference and book contributions. He received 2200 citations for an h-index of 27. He is currently involved in analysis and retrofitting projects validation by ASPI as representative of Italian Council for Transportation (MIT) and is also involved in a national arrangement for new codes for existing bridges.

Dr. Vasant Matsagar is currently serving as Dogra Chair Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He obtained his doctorate degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay in 2005 (in the area of seismic base isolation of structures). He performed post-doctoral research at the Lawrence Technological University (LTU), USA in the area of carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP) in bridge structures. He has published around 100 international journal papers, 100 international conference manuscripts, 1 book, 6 edited proceedings, and filed for 2 patents so far.

Prof. Gianfranco De Matteis is Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"(Italy). He got the PhD in Structural Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II in 1998. He is member of many national and international committees. He coordinated and participated to a number of research projects mainly dealing with, steel structures, aluminium structures, timber structures, earthquake and fire design. In such fields he is author of more than 300 papers, published in national and international scientific journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Stefano de Miranda graduated from the University of Bologna, Italy, where he received a PhD degree in Mechanics of Structures in 2001. He is now Associate professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the University of Bologna, coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering and head of the Laboratory of Computational Mechanics. He coordinates both national and international research projects. His major research interests are in the fields of computational mechanics of solids and structures, computational wind engineering, numerical modelling of multiphysics problems. He is the author of more than 80 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Mishra did PhD in physics from IIT Delhi (India) and subsequently occupied the functions of postdoctoral researcher at the City University Hong Kong both in the development of novel fiber-optic sensors, and later performed research in Raman spectroscopy and detection in a joint appointment at the Texas A&M/Baylor University. Since 2018, he is serving as postdoctoral researcher at the Ecole de technologie superieure (ETS) in Montreal, Canada, where he conducts research in the areas of OAM biochemical sensing and photonic biomedical sensors. His primary focus is on fiber and integrated optical sensors.

Dr. Magdi Emile Mohareb obtained his Ph.D. degree (1995) in Structural Engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Dr. Mohareb worked in consulting (from 1995 to 1999), and then joined the University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) as Assistant Professor (in 2000). Then he became Associate Professor (in 2004), and he is now Full Professor (since 2010). He is registered as a professional engineer in Ontario and Alberta, and is member of ASCE and CSCE. Dr. Mohareb has authored/co-authored over a 100 refereed publications, served as reviewer for over 20 international journals, and is member of the editorial board of three journals.

Prof. Abdel-Hamid Mourad earned his Ph.D. degree in the Mechanical Engineering (Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics area) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), Mumbai, India, in 1995. After awarding the PhD degree, he started working as a full-time lecturer (1995) at the Mechanical Design Department, Helwan University. In 2009, he was promoted to full professor at Helwan University and promoted to the same rank at the United Arab Emirates University in Spring 2014. He is an active researcher in several engineering applications such as fracture mechanics, mechanical behavior of materials (metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites), stress corrosion cracking, and materials characterizations using different techniques. His research has resulted in more than 159 referred and peer reviewed international journals (68) and conferences (76).

Dr. Fadzli Mohamed Nazri has research interests in risk assessment, seismic hazard, structural analysis, numerical stimulation and modelling. On top of this, his research has given him a deeper understanding and desire to learn more on earthquake engineering. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Structural and Earthquake Engineering in the School of Civil Engineering at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He has published 8 books, more than 70 reputable peer reviewed journal in the field of structures and infrastructures related to the earthquake engineering, book chapters and codes/guidelines with the Department of Standard Malaysia. He holds grants at the National and International level for the application in earthquake research areas.

Vagelis Plevris is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Energy Technology of OsloMet-Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering (1999), an MSc in Structural Engineering (2001), an MBA (2003) and a PhD in Computational Mechanics (2009). His research interests include: Finite Element Method; Static and Dynamic Analysis of Structures; Earthquake Engineering; Optimum Design of Structures; Reliability and Probabilistic Analysis of Structures; and Neural Networks and their Applications in Engineering. Dr. Plevris is married and has a daughter and a son. He speaks English, German, Italian, Norwegian and Greek.

Dr. Pratico completed Laurea Degree in Civil Engineering (Bachelor and Master)-Pisa University (110/110, equivalent first class degree) and Ph.D. in Transportation Infrastructures -Palermo University. After industrial occupation, Filippo joined the Mediterranean University and became Associate Professor in 2002, habilitated full in 2012 and serving as Deputy of the Master School, Deputy of the DIMET Department, Director of the Road Laboratory. He became member of the TRB of U.S. National Academies. He is also Chair of several international committees. He is involved in national and international research, and industrial projects. He has served as a consultant to several companies and agencies in Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

Alaa M Rashad is a professor in the Building Materials Research and Quality Control Institute, Housing & Building National Research Center (HBRC), Cairo, Egypt. He got his Master in Civil engineering (Structural Engineering) from Cairo University, 2000. He got his PhD in Structural Engineering from Cairo University, 2005. He completed his postal doctoral from Queen's University, Belfast–United Kingdom, in 2009. His research interests include blended cement, fire resistance, durability, recycling, alkali-activated materials (geopolymers). He has a number of publications in ISI journals with a lot of citations. He reviewed many papers for different journals.

Dr. Pier Paolo Rossi is an Associate Professor at the University of Catania. He received his degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Naples "Federico II" (1993) and his Ph.D. from the University of Catania(1998). He has authored or co-authored over 150 publications, including journal papers and articles in conference proceedings. His research interests are in the areas of earthquake engineering: in particular, his attention is focused on the design and seismic behavior of reinforced concrete and steel structures.

Professor RNDr. V. Sladek, DrSc. is working in the field of Computational Mechanics and Applied Mathematics for almost 40 years. Most applications are oriented to solid mechanics. He received Dr. Nat. Sci. (RNDr.) in Physics, Comenius University, Bratislava, PhD and DrSc in Mechanics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava. He is the author and/or co-author of 6 monographs, 20 chapters in monographs, around 320 original scientific papers and around 200 peer reviewed conference contributions with more than 2800 scientific citations according to WoS (Thomson Reuters).

Delfim Soares Jr. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Structural Engineering of UFJF, Brazil. In the past 15 years, he has published over 100 manuscripts (80% in high impact leading journals), in the field of numerical methods and structural engineering. He is editorial board member and/or reviewer in more than 45 journals. In addition, he has worked/coordinated dozens of research projects, financed by government and industry. He is mainly focused on the development and application of meshless, boundary and finite element methods for engineering analyses, with particular application to acoustics, fluid/solid mechanics, electromagnetics and coupled models.

Dr. George Stefanou is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His research activity is mainly focused on the development and application of computer methods for stochastic finite element analysis of real world structures as well as multiscale modeling and uncertainty quantification of heterogeneous materials and structures. He has published over 100 articles in international refereed journals and conference proceedings, which have received over 1000 citations. He has also been a member of the Scientific Committee of 14 international conferences and a reviewer for 68 scientific journals and 30 international conferences.

Dr. Gritsada Sua-iam is currently working as a lecturer in the civil engineering department of Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon, Thailand. He received B.Eng. in Civil Engineering from Rangsit University, M.Eng. in Engineering and Construction Management from King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, M.Sc. in Building Technology Management from Dhurakij Pundit University and Ph.D. in Technology Management from the Phranakhon Rajabhat University, Thailand. His research interests include high performance concrete; and utilization of waste materials as concrete materials such as fly ash, rice husk ash, limestone powder, bagasse ash, waste glass and other with more than 20 international journal papers.

Suraparb Keawsawasvong received the B.Eng. degree (Hons.) in civil engineering from Thammasat University, Thailand, in 2013, and the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, in 2015 and 2019, respectively. He is now a Lecturer at the Department of Civil Engineering, Thammasat University. His research interests include stability analysis in geotechnical engineering, solid mechanics, optimization, and finite element analysis.

Yiannis Tsompanakis is Associate Professor at the School of Environmental Engineering of the Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece, and Head of Computational Dynamics & Energy (CODEN) Research Group. His interests and expertise include structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering, geoenvironmental engineering, soil-structure interaction, structural optimization, probabilistic mechanics, structural integrity assessment & monitoring, life-cycle analysis & performance-based design, and artificial intelligence methods. He has more than 200 publications. He has also prepared special issues and organized several international conferences, special sessions and mini-symposia. He is reviewer in many archival journals and he is Technical Editor of Structure and Infrastructure Engineering Journal.

Marco VONA is Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Basilicata. He holds his PhD “Design, monitoring and retrofitting of conventional and innovative structures” at the Faculty of Architecture of University of Chieti - Pescara (Italy), PhD school. The research activities are mainly related to earthquake engineering problems. Marco Vona has participated to several national and international research contracts and research projects. He has participated as speaker in several international conferences and he is reviewer of some international prestigious journals. The results of the research activities are reported in about 100 papers, on national and international reviews, conference proceedings and books.

Zhou Chuanbo is Professor of Faculty of Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, P.R. China. He holds his PhD in Geological Engineering of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). The research activities are mainly related to Geotechnical Engineering, Underground Engineering and Engineering Blasting. Dr. Zhou Chuanbo has awarded second-grade MLR science or technology prize (2014). He is also honored as the National Great-Contribution Blasting Expert by China Society of Explosive Blasting in August, 2016.

Dr. Ali Bagheri obtained his Master’s degree in Materials Engineering-Recognition and Selection of Engineering Materials, Iran in 2011. Later, he received his PhD in Civil Engineering from the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include concrete investigation, Additive manufacturing in construction, Materials characterization, Design of experiments, Finite element modeling, Data mining, Artificial Neural Network and Atomic Scale Simulation.

Giuseppe Balduzzi is project assistant at TU Wien – Vienna University of Technology (Austria). He achieved the Phd (November 2013) and the Master Degree (April 2008) at the University of Pavia. His main fields of expertise are the structural modeling of wood, steel, and concrete structures, analytical modeling of non-homogeneous, non-prismatic, and anisotropic beams, modeling of plates and shells, and computational mechanics (finite element method, mixed and hybrid finite elements, Iso-Geometric Analysis, isogeometric collocation). He is author of more than 20 publications.

Ahsanollah Beglarigale is an Assistant Professor at Istanbul Okan University’s Department of Civil Engineering. In March 2018, he received his PhD from the Dokuz Eylül University’s Department of Civil Engineering (Construction Materials). His did MSc in the Construction Materials program from the same institution. Since 2011, he has participated in four research projects funded by TÜBİTAK. He has also contributed in three industrial projects as consultant. He is the author of 45 scientific papers; published in journals and conference proceedings. Although, most of his research studies are focused on cement-based materials/composites. He has research experience in the field of microencapsulation.

Dr. Chan is actively involved in the research works on characterisation study and innovative reuse of dredged marine soils, especially in reclamation and shoreline rehabilitation projects. She has spent 2 years as a Visiting Scholar at the Port and Airport Research Institute (PARI), Japan (2009-11), conducting a study on the fundamental behaviour of dredged sediments and their pseudo-solidification mechanisms. Dr. Chan’s current interest also revolves around optimisation of long arm excavator and amphibian machinery for earthworks in soft or swampy grounds, enhanced gabion foundation system as well as geo-environmentally effective stabilisation of granular materials for road building.

Prof. Yongping Chen received his BSc degree in Harbor and Waterway Engineering at Hangzhou University (now named as Zhejiang University) in 1996, his MSc degree in Coastal Engineering at Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute in 1999, and his PhD degree in Coastal Environmental Hydraulics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2006. Following 3.5 years’ postdoctoral research experience at the University of Plymouth in the UK, he joined the COastal Resource and Environmental (CORE) research group at Hohai University as a full professor. He has published 150+ journal & conference papers and 3 books, and holds 6 national patterns. He was awarded the second prize for National Science & Technology Development in 2011, the first prize for Science & technology Development of the Ministry of Education in 2010, and the second prize for Science & technology Development of the Ministry of Education in 2014.

Cristoforo Demartino (1986) is an Assistant Professor (2019-) at the Zhejiang University/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute (ZJU-UIUC) He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor (2020-) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Illinois, U.S.A. Dr. Demartino is particularly interested in structural engineering with a multidisciplinary approach having wide research interest in structural engineering, with an emphasis on investigating the dynamic behaviour of structures under natural and man-made loading, such as earthquake, wind, impact, etc. He used both numerical and experimental approaches to understand the response of structures under different loading conditions and to determine the structural behaviour.

Dr. Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earthquake Engineering at the Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Iran. He is also a member of the FIB Commission on Resilient RC Structures, the ASCE Objective Resilience Committee, the RILEM Structural Performance and Design Technical Committee and also the IEEE P693 Committee on Seismic Design for Substations. His main field of expertise are structural and earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, resilience-based design, reliability analysis, and vibration control in structures and infrastructure under extreme loading.

Dr. Ali Ghahremaninezhad is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Miami. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering and his M.S. in Structural Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include materials science of cementitious materials, sustainability in civil engineering materials, and bio-inspired cementitious materials.

Dr. Ana Sofia Guimarães is an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department of FEUP, since 2008; Civil Engineering mobility coordinator and Member of Executive Commission in the Civil Engineering Department, since 2015. She graduated in Civil Engineering (2004), M.Sc. in Buildings Rehabilitation (2008), Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (2011), all from FEUP, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal. She is the author of national patent and several books, books chapters, and papers published in refereed journals and conferences. She is a co-organizer of several national and international conferences and collaborator of several research projects and professional works. She has received more than 10 awards in pedagogical and scientific fields.

Esra Mete Güneyisi is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Civil Engineering Department, Gaziantep University, Turkey. She received her Ph.D. degree in 2007 from the Department of Civil Engineering, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey. Her main research interests are structural engineering, rehabilitation of reinforced concrete building, use of steel bracing system in strengthening building, and advanced statistical analysis of data. She has published her work both in international & national journals.

Dr. Federico Gusella, is a Ph.D., and a P.Eng. He is a researcher in Civil Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Florence (Italy). His research interests involve; Seismic Vulnerability Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures; Steel Storage Pallet Racks; Beam-to-Column Connections; Reliability Analysis; Earthquake-Resistant Design of Structures, Non-linear Finite Element Analysis and Modeling of Structures. Gusella’s current list of projects involves the Dynamic response of rack systems; the dissipative behavior of bracing systems; the impact of the plastic rotation randomness on the moment redistribution in reinforced concrete structures.

Prof. Kim was educated at the Korea University of Seoul, Korea, where he got BSc and graduate degrees, MSc and PhD. Now, he is a full professor of Dept. of Architectural Engineering at Kyonggi University, Korea, since September 2008, and worked as an assistant professor of Mokpo National University, Korea, from March 2005 to October 2008. He is interested in Cost Estimating Based on Artificial Intelligence, Innovative Construction Methods, Construction Productivity, and etc. He published more than 100 research paper and 50 conference papers. Currently, he has been a reviewer of some journals and editor-in-chief of JBCPR.

Dr. Sungwon Kim is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Railroad Construction and Safety Engineering, Dongyang University, Republic of Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (1998) from Yeungnam University, Republic of Korea. His research interest includes: hydrology and water resources engineering based on data-driven applications. His current focus is on building conjunction of data-driven models and tools for water resources modeling, management, and analytics. He has published over 80 journal papers and more than 130 conference papers.

Antonia Longobardi is Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Salerno (Italy) where she achieved the PhD in “Civil engineering for the environment and territory”. She is the author of more than 100 publications (book chapter, journal articles, peer-reviewed conference papers). Her research activities are focused on the following main research areas: a) water resources management at different temporal and spatial scales; b) soil moisture temporal and spatial variability analysis; c) mass and energy balance models; d) hydrological drought; e) water sensitive urban design; f) urban hydrology.

Dr. C Maraveas is currently teaching and conducting research at the Civil Engineering Department, University of Patras. He received his PhD from University of Manchester and awarded MSc degrees from Imperial College and Swansea University. He was Post-doctoral Research Fellow of the Fire Safety Research Group at the University of Liege, Belgium and he has extensive consulting experience of Technical Director level. His research interests are Structures in Fire, Elevated temperature material properties, Structural Design, Steel Structures, Heritage Structures and Tanks. He has published more than 28 journal papers, 34 conference publications and 3 books.

Dr. Masoud Zare is currently a research faculty in the Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno (USA). His research interests lie primarily in the area of risk assessment of geo-engineering projects.

Meysam Najimi, postdoctoral research associate at the Iowa State University and formerly postdoctoral research associate at University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), received his Ph.D from UNLV in 2016. He has conducted research in the field of concrete technology since 2005. He did research during his research career on Transport and Durability Properties of concrete, Self-Consolidating Concrete and Alkali-Activated Binders. During this time, he presented his research in several conferences and also published a book chapter, and 34 peer-reviewed manuscripts. He has served as an active reviewer for more than 15 journals. He is an associated member of ACI.

Dr. Vahid Rahmani is an assistant professor at the Kansas State University. He received his bachelor’s and master's degrees in civil and environmental engineering from AmirKabir University of Technology and Shiraz University, respectively. He then earned his doctorate degree in biological and agricultural engineering with a hydrology focus from Kansas State University. Dr. Rahmani’s research interests include climate change and variability impacts on water resources management and nonstationary extreme weather events.

Krishanu Roy obtained his PhD from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His PhD topic was: Behaviour of Cold-formed steel claddings under static and constant amplitude cyclic wind loading. He also was involved in many other projects on cold-formed steel structures in the last three years and continued research on cold-formed steel research. Some of his research topics include natural fire test and finite element modelling of cold-formed steel buildings, wind uplift capacity of cold-formed steel claddings in extreme cyclone-full scale experiments and finite element modelling, cold-formed steel built-up columns- experiments and finite element modelling. Finite element modelling of cold-formed steel portal frames and connections, residual stresses, and imperfection in cold-formed steel members.

Pijush Samui is working as an Associate Professor in civil engineering department at NIT Patna, India. He holds a Ph.D. in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (2008) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Pittsburgh (USA) (2008-2009) and Tampere University of Technology (Finland) (2009- 2010). Dr. Pijush received the prestigious CIMO fellowship (2009) from Finland, in recognition of his integrated research on the design of railway embankment. He was awarded Shamsher Prakash Research Award (2011) by IIT Roorkee for his innovative research on the application of Artificial Intelligence in designing civil engineering structure. He has published more than 100 journal papers in international journals.

Luca Sgambi received MSc Degree in Civil Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1998; Second-level Specialising Master (2 years) in Concrete Structures from Politecnico di Milano, in 2001; and PhD Degree in Structural Engineering from the Università di Roma, Italy, in 2005. From 2003 to 2015, Sgambi was Adjunct Professor in Structural Design, School of Civil Architecture, Politecnico di Milano. Since 2016, Sgambi is Assistant Professor in Structural courses, Université catholique de Louvain, Tournai Campus, Belgium. Sgambi is author and co-author of 3 technical books concerning structural engineering and nearly 100 scientific papers concerning: structural modelling, uncertainty, fuzzy and probabilistic modelling, durability of materials and structures, theory and practice of education.

Dr. Tarawneh is an associate professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan. His research interests include analytical aspects of soil-pipe interactions, inspection and risk assessment of structures, field performance and geotechnical analysis of shallow and deep foundations, settlements of shallow foundation on cohesionless soils, correlation of Standard Penetration Test (SPT) and Cone Penetration Tests (CPT), design and performance of Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) Wall, application of artificial neural networks in civil engineering, resilient modulus prediction from FWD results, and ground improvement.

Dr. Bassam A. Tayeh is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Islamic University of Gaza (IUG), Gaza, Palestine. His research interests are in the areas of UHPFC, eco-friendly construction materials. He has a number of research works related to the reuse of industrial waste product at a high replacement of cement or other contents of concrete to produce eco-friendly concrete. He has extensive experience in both academic and practice in many fields of civil engineering; he has published many papers in international journals with high impact factors and has presented many papers at several international conferences. He is a reviewer for many international journals.

Dr. Moahmmadreza Vafaei is a senior lecturer in the school of civil engineering, Universti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He received his Ph.D. in 2013 from UTM. Soon after graduation he was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship by UTM. He has published more than 40 papers in referred journals and conferences and has been selected as the keynote speaker for two international conferences. His main fields of research are earthquake engineering, structural health monitoring and structural control.

P. Veeresha is Assistant Professor at CHRIST, Bengaluru. He completed his Master’s Degree from Davangere University, Davangere, and his Ph.D. from Karnatak University, Dharwad. His research areas include Fractional Calculus, Mathematical Modelling, Numerical and Analytical Methods, and Mathematical Physics. He published more than 70 research articles in highly reputed journals and he has been an editorial member for a few reputed journals.

Dr. Xing Zheng Wu is currently working as an Associate Professor in the civil engineering department of Hebei University in Baoding, China. His research interests focus on stability analysis of geostructures, numerical modelling of soil structure interaction, coastal cliff-beach erosion and hydraulic structures, flood risk mitigation measures, uncertainty quantification and reliability analysis in geotechnical and coastal engineering. Dr. Wu has published more than 20 journal papers as the first author in international journals. He has served as an active reviewer for many journals.

Dr. Chao Xing is currently an assistant professor at School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2018, and worked as a visiting scholar at Delft University of Technology from 2016 to 2017. His main research areas include microstructure characterization and damage evolution of pavement materials. He has authored 1 book, published more than 20 articles in leading SCI-indexed journals (including 1 ESI highly- cited paper), secured 5 research projects including National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Dr. Ye LI is an Assistant Professor at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China. He received his Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His main research areas include Fire Performance of Concrete, Sustainable Concrete, and Durability of RC Structures. He has published more than 30 research articles in highly reputed journals and has been granted many key research projects including National Natural Science Foundation of China.