Dr. Panagiotis G. Asteris is an Associate Professor, Head of the Computational Mechanics Laboratory and Director of Master’s Program in Applied Computational Structural Engineering (ACSE) at the School of Pedagogical & Technological Education, Athens, Greece. He received BS, MS and PhD degrees in civil engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece. His research focuses on computational structural engineering, applied and computational mathematics and masonry materials and structures. Professor Asteris is the author/editor of three books in structural engineering. He has authored more than 100 publications mainly on peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Humberto Varum is a full professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal. Since October 2010, he is Honorary Lecturer at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College of London, UK. Since July 2016, he is serving as a Visiting Professor at the College of Civil Engineering, Fuzhou University, China. He has been Seconded National Expert to the European Commission in the period July 2009 to August 2010, at the ELSA laboratory, Joint Research Centre, Italy. His main research interests include assessment, strengthening and repair of structures, structural testing and modelling, earthquake engineering, earth construction rehabilitation.

Dr. Camille A. Issa, obtained his BS (1980) and MS (1982) in Civil Engineering from Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, USA. He later then obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering, 1985, from Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. He is a Fellow of ASCE (1997). He was Professionally Registered as Civil Engineer (PE) in 1982. Currently, he is serving as a Professor of Civil Engineering in the Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon. He also serves on several ASCE committees and is a member of ACI and PCI. He is an ABET PEV.

Dr. Marino received a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from University of Catania (ITALY). He is currently Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering at University of Catania. He has authored more than 100 publications, among which 25 published on International Refereed Journals. His study subjects include analysis of the seismic behaviour and design criteria for steel frames, nonlinear static methods for seismic assessment, seismic upgrading of existing buildings, performance based design, and seismic codes.

Prof. Gianfranco De Matteis is Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"(Italy). He obtained his PhD in Structural Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II in 1998. He is a Member of many national and international committees. He coordinated and participated in a number of international research projects mainly dealing with, steel structures, aluminium structures, timber structures, seismic engineering and fire design. In such fields he is author of more than 350 papers, published in national and international scientific journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Munir is an RMIT University graduate and currently working as a Research Assistant at the same institute. He is a structural engineer with an international experience of working in the higher education industry. He has a strong research background in the development of innovative construction materials and technologies. For his outstanding research, he has been awarded RMIT Prize for Research Impact HDR (Technology) 2020, HDR Impact Prize 2020 (RMIT University), Finalist and RMIT LaunchHUB Prize at Open Innovation Competition 2020 (City of Melbourne), HDR Intern Prize 2019 (RMIT University), OnPrime Outstanding Performance Prize 2019 (CSIRO) and Letter of Appreciation by the Vice-Chancellor 2018 (MUST Pakistan).

Dr. Thomas Olofsson obtained his doctorate (Ph.D.) in Applied Physics in 2000 from Umeå University, Sweden. Since 1992 he holds a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. In 2013 Thomas Olofsson was appointed Professor in Energy Engineering at Umeå University. The focus of his research is to reduce building energy end-use. He has published 100 scientific publications.

Alcínia Zita Sampaio is a PhD in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the TU Lisbon, since 1999. She is a teacher and supervisor of Technical Drawing and Computer Aided Drawing for Civil Engineering students, since 2001. Her main research fields are BIM and Virtual Reality. She has been the supervisor of doctoral theses and master's thesis on the topic of BIM.

Dr.Shilei Lu obtained a doctorate (Ph.D.) in HVAC from Tianjin University, China. Currently Dr.Shilei Lu is a Professor in the School of Environment Science and Engineering of Tianjin University. He has published more than 50 scientific publications and is a named inventor of 10 issued Chinese patents.

Francesca Stazi graduated with honours in Architecture and Civil Engineering at Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy. She did Ph.D. and is an Associate Professor in Building Construction. She is the author of more than 65 publications including 25 papers on international ISI/Scopus Journals and 1 international book regarding thermal inertia in building envelopes. She is also a co-author of 3 patents. She is a reviewer for several ISI Journals. Her study area is energy efficient buildings, thermal comfort, environmental sustainability and durability of components. The studies are multidisciplinary, involving experimental activities, dynamic thermal simulations and environmental impact analysis.

Dr. L. T. Wong is an associate professor in the department of Building Services Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is a recipient of the Hans B. Thorelli Award of the 2006 Awards for excellence, and in 2011, the highly commended award winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence by Emerald Literati Network. He is a working commission member (W062-water supply and drainage for buildings) of the Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB). He serves as a court member for Hong Kong Baptist University (2016-2017).

Dr D'Altri is a postdoctoral researcher in Structural Mechanics at the University of Bologna. His field of expertise includes: numerical analysis of masonry and historic structures; mechanics of composite strengthening systems bonded to masonry; mesh generation procedures for cultural heritage structures; modeling environmental ageing in building materials.

Dr. Bosco obtained a Ph.D in structural engineering from the University of Catania and was awarded with the National scientific qualification to function as Associate Professor. Dr. Bosco’s main research interest are the proposal of design procedures and assessment of the seismic behaviour of steel structures, the assessment of the seismic response of regular and in-plan irregular buildings by nonlinear static methods and dynamic analysis and the proposal of design methods for the seismic upgrade of existing buildings. She is a reviewer for many scientific journals and author of more than 100 publications, several of which are published in the international journals.

Maria Teresa De Risi is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, where she received her MSc in Geotechnical and Structural Engineering and her PhD in Seismic Risk. She was a Post-Doctoral Visiting Researcher at the University of Porto, Portugal. Her research interests include experimental and analytical investigation of Reinforced Concrete (RC) members, nonlinear modelling and analysis of RC structures, seismic vulnerability assessment of existing RC buildings including non-structural elements, influence of masonry infills on the seismic response of RC buildings. She published more than 40 scientific papers among international journals and conference proceedings. She is reviewer for several international peer-reviewed journals. She took part to several European and national research projects on seismic behaviour of RC elements/structures. She was beneficiary of an AXA Research Fund Post-Doctoral Fellowship and the winner of the Buildings Travel Award 2019.

Prof. Beatrice Faggiano received doctoral degree in Structural engineering at UNINA in 2001. Since 2013, she is qualified as Associate Professor in Structural Engineering. Dr. Faggiano has been teaching courses in Metallic Structures, Timber constructions and Glass Engineering. She has published more than 250 papers in national and international journals, conference proceedings, technical documents, and monographs.

Dr. Jesus N. Eiras has been a postdoctoral research associate at the Laboratory of Mechanics and Acoustics, CNRS UMR7031 (France) for 5 years. He received his Ph.D. from the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) in 2016. His research interests include the nondestructive evaluation and structural health monitoring of civil engineering structures, the durability of construction materials, and the valorization of industrial wastes in the composition of concrete.

Dr. Andreas Lampropoulos is a Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering at the University of Brighton. He currently serves as the Chair of Working Group 7 ‘Earthquake Resistance Structures’ of the IABSE. He is also a member of the fib Task Group 6.6 ‘Retrofitting of Precast Structures in Seismic Areas’ and the UK Mirror Group for Eurocode 8 Part 3. Dr Lampropoulos is also member of the Institute of Concrete Technology (MICT). Dr. Lampropoulos has been member of the scientific committee of international conferences. He has also been a reviewer of more than 20 international journals and reviewer of research proposals.

Nicola Nisticò has graduated in engineering from the University "LA SAPIENZA" of Rome. He obtained the PhD from the University of Florence and then became the Researcher at the Italian National Group for Defense Against Earthquakes (GNDT). Since 1997, he has been serving as assistant professor of structural engineering at the SAPIENZA University of Rome, where he is associate professor and member of the Structural and Geotechnical PhD board. The scientific activity has addressed the topics of a) seismic assessment and retrofitting of existing structures b) composite materials for existing and new structures c) macro-meso numerical modeling d) vibrations on constructions.

Barbara Lorenza Pintucchi has been awarded PhD in 2001 from the University of Florence, where she is currently assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research interests include the development of constitutive and numerical models for structural analysis, the static and dynamic behavior of masonry structures, torsional behavior and seismic response of plan-asymmetric building structures. She has published about 60 scientific articles in the field of structural and earthquake engineering and is reviewer for many international journals. She has been involved in many research projects, focused on the seismic assessment of masonry structures and monuments.

Fabio Di Trapani is Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering at Polytechnic of Turin. He obtained his MSc and PhD from the University of Palermo. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of California at San Diego (USA). He is author of more than 50 papers published in international journals and international conference proceedings. The research activity (both theoretical and experimental) focuses on seismic performance of reinforced concrete and masonry structures, frame infill-interaction, seismic fragility assessment, aftershock response of buildings, performance of retrofitting systems.