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. Ghassan Al-Chaar is a senior research structural engineer at US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. He received a PhD in 1998 in Structural Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago, M.S. Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; and BS/M.S. in Structural Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago. He has performed research in the area of materials and structural engineering to incorporate studies of new and innovative concepts in technology-based engineering. His recent research was encompassed: earthquake engineering, indigenous construction material, geopolymer soil stabilization, concrete mixture design for 3-D- printing, nanotechnology applications in civil engineering, fiber reinforced polymer composites, and thermoplastic composite material. He has published about 100 scientific publications and several patents.

Since 2013, Dr. Al-Chaar served as an Associate Editor of The Open Construction and Building Technology Journal, published by Bentham Science Publishers.

Dr. Chrysostomou is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics of the Cyprus University of Technology since 2008. He obtained a Bachelor of Science (BSc) and a Master of Engineering (Civil) in structural engineering, as well as a doctorate (PhD) with concentration in earthquake engineering from Cornell University (USA). In 2011 he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, position he retains until today. He has over 100 scientific publications and his research interests include structural dynamics, seismic design, retrofitting of existing structures, protection of monuments from earthquakes with innovative methods, and structural health monitoring.

Dr. Jorge de Brito is a Full Professor of Civil Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal, where he is Director of the Eco Construction and Rehabilitation Doctoral Programme. He has participated in competitively-financed research programs, four of which as Principal Investigator. He is a member of W80 (CIB); RAC TC (RILEM); W86 (CIB); W115 (CIB); WC7 (IABSE), FIB, CIB, IABMAS and IRS. He has supervised 6 Post-doc researchers, 34 PhD students and 151 Masters students. His publication record includes 4 books, and more than 300 papers in ISI/Scopus journals.

Dr. D.J. Armaghani received his post-doctoral from Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran in 2018 and also received his Ph.D in Geotechnics from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia in 2015. His main research areas include environmental assessment of blasting, rock mechanics, tunneling, slope stability, and intelligent systems. He has published over 100 papers in well recognized journals with ISI and Scopus indexing, national and international conferences. Dr. Armaghani is also a recognized reviewer of many Civil and Computer based journals.

Dr. Antonio Formisano is Aggregate Professor of Structural Design at the Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture of the University of Naples Federico II. He is a teacher within the International Masters “Emerging Technologies for Construction”, “Design of Steel” and “Sustainable Constructions under Natural Hazards and Catastrophic Events”. He was and is involved in several national and international research projects. He is an editorial board member and reviewer of numerous international journals. He is the author of more than 250 scientific papers, published in national and international journals and conference proceedings. He received several awards and public acknowledgements for his scientific research activity.

Dr. Ribakov is associated with various professional organizations such as: EU Academy of Sciences (Active Member), International Engineering and Technology Institute (Board of Directors), International Engineering and Technology Institute (Senior Member), Member of the International Physics and Control Society. He has published 5 monographs, 13 chapters in edited books, more than 90 papers in professional journals, about 90 papers in proceedings of international conferences. Dr. Ribakov's research interests include Seismic response of structures: base isolation and hybrid systems, control algorithms, passive controlled devices, active and semi-active damping systems, testing structures subjected to dynamic loadings. High performance materials, elements and structures: two-layer beams, column-slab joints, steel fibered concrete.

Dr. Hugo Rodrigues is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal. He teaches several topics related with Structural Analysis, Building Pathology and Rehabilitation. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Aveiro. His major research interests are Building Rehabilitation, Structural Health Monitoring and Seismic Safety including experimental and numerical activities. He has co-authored more than 150 publications in top-tier peer-reviewed journals and at national and international meetings.

Dr. Andreas Benardos is an Assistant Professor at the School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He holds a Diploma in Mining Engineering and a Ph.D. in risk assessment for underground construction projects. His research interests are focused on the topics of underground space development and mine design, risk assessment and uncertainty in underground construction, ventilation, project cost estimation as well as on applications of Artificial Neural Networks in geoengineering. He has published more than 60 papers in scientific journals and international conferences.

Professor Daniel Chan obtained his BEng(Hons) degree in Civil and Structural Engineering and PhD degree in Construction Project Management from the Department of Civil Engineering of The University of Hong Kong. He is a project manager, construction manager, Chartered Building Engineer (United Kingdom), Chartered Building Professional (Australia) and Registered Construction Manager (Hong Kong) by profession. He has been appointed as the Associate Head of Department (Teaching and Learning) since 1 July 2016. He has published over 200 research papers on the broad theme of project management in leading construction management journals and international conference proceedings.

Dr. Jui-Sheng specializes in project analytics and engineering management. Currently, he is a Full Professor in the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech). Dr. Chou received his BS and MS from National Taiwan University and his PhD in Construction Engineering and Project Management at the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering -The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author/co-author of hundreds of journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and technical reports related to engineering management.

Dr. Po-Han Chen is currently a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU). Before joining NTU in 2009, he was on the faculty of School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore during 2001- 2009. Dr. Chen has published some 100 academic articles and his research interest includes building information modeling (BIM), green building and sustainable facilities, image processing and recognition, optimization of construction processes, IT applications in construction, and project management.

Professor Bernardino Chiaia received his PhD in Structural Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy in 1995, then became Full Professor of Structural Engineering in 2002. He is currently Vice-rector for International Affairs at Politecnico di Torino. His research area of expertise lies in the development of new construction materials (including fibre reinforced concrete, engineered cementitious composites, recycled aggregate concrete), seismic engineering and robustness of complex structures. Prof. Bernardino Chiaia was awarded the ACI Wason Medal in 2014 and is honorary professor at Henan University of Technology in China.

Dr. Ottavia Corbi is a Professor of Structural Engineering at the Department of Structural Engineering and Architecture, University of Naples. She has been awarded two prizes for the exemplary scientific research and career (one granted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of Boston). She has worked as a visiting professor at a number of Universities in the United States, China and Italy. She has presented more than 200 scientific memoirs and scientific seminars. Also, she has attended many (more than 200) international and national scientific meeting, workshops and conferences all over the world (on topics relevant to structural engineering and mechanics topics).

Dr. Argiro Dimoudi is an Associate Professor at the subject ‘Science and technology of structures with emphasis on environmental design’ at the Department of Environmental Engineering at Democritus University of Thrace (GR). She has extensive experience on aspects of energy conservation and RES in buildings, environmental friendly materials, microclimate and outdoor spaces, bioclimatic design and energy consulting. She has experience as coordinator, project manager and researcher in research, demonstration and non-technological projects on energy and sustainability in buildings and settlements. She has worked as an author in several books. She has published about 80 scientific publications in international scientific journals, refereed International and National conferences.

Professor Mizi Fan, Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Brunel University London, has both academic and industrial profiles previously developed at the University of Bath, the Building Research Establishment, UK (BRE) and universities in China over the last 30 years. He is a Founder of Civil Engineering at Brunel. In his research field of Fibre Science and Technology, Composites, Recycling and Low Carbon Construction, he has an international profile with a number of international patents, six text books and over 160 peer reviewed scientific publications. He is an editor for seven international peer-review scientific journals. Mizi has been the Coordinator or Scientific Manager of numerous complex EU Framework and Horizon 2020 projects.

Dr. Celina Filippín holds a Degree in Architecture from the National University of La Plata, Argentina, Magister in Renewable Energy and a Ph.D in Sciences – Renewable Energy from the National University of Salta, Argentina. She is a senior researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), Argentina. Her area of research is related to energy-efficient buildings design and their thermal computer simulation and also coordination of low- energy building design and monitoring. She has published more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. She supervises MSc. and PhD. students and research teams of scientific projects.

Dr. DORA FOTI is an Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at the Polytechnic of Bari. She has given courses in Structural Engineering, Earthquake Engineering, Design of Bridges for Civil Engineering. She has given lectures and seminars in numerous training courses as well as at universities and research institutes both in Italy and outside Italy. She has over 200 scientific publications in the field of Structural Engineering and Materials, where she developed mainly the issues related to the seismic behavior of structures, dynamic identification of historical masonry buildings and innovative composite materials. She is and has been coordinator of several national and international scientific projects.

Dr. Sofiane Guessasma is a mechanical engineering scientist. He is presently a senior scientist at INRA (France) conducting a research activity in the field of additive manufacturing of biosourced materials. He has a key interest on hot topics in mechanical engineering, processing and materials science. He has several contributions related to the microstructural interpretation of material performance, mechanical modelling, image analysis, and in-situ experiments. He published over 100 papers in different research fields.

Dr. Mohsen Hajihassani is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mining, Urmia, Iran. He received his post-doctoral and Ph.D. from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia. His main research interests include Geotechnical Engineering, Tunneling in Soft Soils and Rocks as well as Artificial Intelligence Approaches in Geotechnical Engineering. He is recognized reviewer of many international geotechnical journals. Dr. Mohsen edited and contributed in 3 chapters in a book . He has also published more than 60 papers in international journals and has also published conference proceedings.

Dr. Carlo Ingrao obtained a five-year (M.Sc.) Degree in ‘Environment and Land Management Engineering’ at the University of Catania (Italy), in 2007. Later, in 2012, he was titled as PhD in Geotechnical Engineering at University of Catania.

His research activities and interests are focussed upon the development of energy, environmental and economic assessments in the fields of: industrial and environmental engineering; commodity sciences; buildings; biomass and bioenergy; agriculture and food production; and food packaging.Within those themes, he has authored and co-authored almost forty-five publications in international journals, book chapters and conference proceedings: most of them are indexed by Scopus and/or WoS.

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.

Abílio de Jesus is Auxiliary Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal. He is also research member at the Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. He is co-author of more than 100 papers in national and international scientific journals and more than 200 papers presented at both national and international conferences showing the consistency and visibility of the research work that has been developed in the fields of fatigue and fracture of materials and structures. The recent edition of the Structural Integrity Book series, the nomination for the ESIS TC12 and the new European Project, FASTCOLD, highlights the research excellency being performed.

Dr. Kawamura obtained a doctorate in Engineering from Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan. He acts as a Full Professor, in Kanazawa University. Dr. Kawamura was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Purdue University, U.S.A. from 1972 to 1973, and also Honorary Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia in1986. He was an Adjunct Professor in Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia 2006. At present, he is Professor Emeritus, Kanazawa University, in Japan. He has published more than 300 scientific publications. He was an Editor of Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Alkali-Aggregate Reaction in Concrete which was held on 1989 in Kyoto, Japan.

Giuseppe Lacidogna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Structural, Geotechnical and Building Engineering of Politecnico di Torino (Italy). He graduated in Architecture cum laude, and holds the PhD degree in Structural Engineering. He is member of the PhD board in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Torino. His research principally focuses on Structural Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Static and dynamic analysis of high-rise buildings, Damage Analysis in Structures and Quasi-brittle Materials. On these topics he participated and takes part in several International and National Scientific Committee.

He is author of more than 280 publications among which 83 appeared on SCOPUS and ISI international journals, 13 book chapters, and 7 monographs.

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.

Professor Cheuk Ming Mak was awarded his PhD in Acoustics from the University of Liverpool. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Building Services Engineering of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Professor Mak’s research interests include acoustics, noise, vibration, natural ventilation, inter-unit dispersion in buildings, indoor environmental quality, wind & thermal comfort, Computational Fluid Dynamics and green building features. He is interested in studying the building performance in high-density urban environment and the interactions of people, buildings and environment. He has committed to research works for over 20 years and has produced over 200 publications.

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.

Dr. Masi currently serves as a Full Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Basilicata, Italy. He is a Member of the Executive Board of the ReLUIS Consortium (www.reluis.it), of the Managing Board of the Italian National Communication Campaign "I don't take risks” (www.iononrischio.it), and of the RILEM Technical Committee 249-ISC. He is a Guest Editor of the Special Issue “2016 Central Italy Earthquakes” of the Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering Journal. Scientific Responsible or Collaborator of several national and international Research Projects. His Research activity is mainly related to Earthquake Engineering problems, resulting in about 250 papers on the leading international and national journals and in conference proceedings.

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.

Fabio Mazza graduated in Civil Engineering with honours at the University of Calabria (Italy). He is an Associate Professor of "Structural Engineering" and holds a Ph.D. degree in Computational Mechanics. He is giving the course of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Engineering of Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete at the University of Calabria, where is a member of the Ph. Doctorate of Civil and Industrial Engineering. He is author of about 150 scientific papers, regarding topics of earthquake, wind and fire engineering. He is responsible for a research unit of Re.L.U.I.S. (Italian network of university laboratories of earthquake engineering) regarding “Control of seismic vibrations of structures”.

Prof. Antonio Messineo was appointed Full Professor in Applied Physics at the University of Enna “Kore” in may 2015. He was previously Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor at the University of Enna since 2010. He is author of more than 100 scientific papers with more than 45 papers on international journals. He participated in numerous research projects at national and European level mainly related to energy and building, energy and environmental planning and renewable energies.

Dr. Mohareb has a Bachelor (Cairo University, Egypt, 1986), MSc (Texas Tech University, USA, 1990) and a PhD in Structural Engineering (University of Alberta, Canada, 1995). He is a Professional Engineer in Alberta and Ontario, Canada, serves on the editorial board of three journals, and acts as a reviewer for over 20 journals. He joined the University of Ottawa as an assistant professor in 2000, was promoted to associate professor in 2004, and to full professor in 2010. He co-authored a book and over 95 refereed publications related to lateral torsional buckling, composites, oil and gas pipelines, and finite element analysis.

Giovanni Minafò is Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering at University of Palermo. He took his Ph.D. in 2012 and worked on the LEDA (Laboratory of Earthquake engineering and Dynamic Analysis) project at University of Enna “Kore” from 2012 to 2014. He is author of more than 50 papers on peer reviewed international journals and presented his research at different international conferences. His research interests include the structural retrofitting of RC or masonry members by traditional or innovative methods and materials, the study of confinement effects in RC columns, modelling strategies of D-regions, the application of composite FRP and FRCM materials for structural upgrading of masonry and RC structures.

Prof. Euripidis Mistakidis obtained a doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1992. He is also working as consulting engineer for structural analysis projects in Greece and abroad. He has published more than 55 journal papers and more than 100 papers in conference proceedings. He is also the coauthor of a book and the co-editor of 5 books. His work is centered in the areas of contact mechanics, steel and concrete structures, strengthening of existing structures and fire engineering.

Rosario Montuori is Professor in Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Salerno, Italy. He is author of more than 150 journal articles, conference papers and scientific reports. His principal research activities are: the control of collapse mechanism of structures, seismic structural reliability, behaviour of reinforced concrete columns confined by means of angles and battens and by means of FRP, design of structures equipped with friction dampers, concrete filled steel tubular columns and Tensegrity structures. He serves as a reviewer for several international journals. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal "Ingegneria Sismica”.

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 several 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. Nguyen received a Ph.D. degree in Architectural Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, PA, U.S.A. Presently, he is Professor and Coordinator of the Construction Engineering Management Program at Department of Civil Engineering & Construction Engineering Management at California State University, Long Beach – CA. Dr. Nguyen has been working in the field of Architecture and Construction Engineering Management for many years and has published more than 100 publications in this field. His research interests include Green Technology and Information Technology Applications in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction.

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.

Onder Ozgener works as an Associate Professor/Doctor in the Solar Energy Institute, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, he also served as a Visiting Professor in Cornell School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell Energy Institute,Cornell University, New York, USA (May 2012-May 2013). He received an energy management certificate from Turkish General Directorate of Electrical Power Resources Survey and Development Administration. O. Ozgener has published several articles about thermodynamics, energy, and renewable energies, in various prestigious international journals. He is also an active Editorial Member of six international journals, He received the TUBITAK Young Scientist Award 2014, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)

Prof. P.A.G. Piloto holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Faculty of the University of Porto (1991), Master Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon (IST, 1994) and PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering (FEUP, 2001). Develops its research activity in the field of fire and structural engineering, participating as a permanent researcher at LAETA – INEGI. UMNMEE subgroup (unit for Numerical Methods in Mechanics and Structural Engineering) and as associate researcher at the research unit of the University of Salamanca "Art, architecture, Urbanism and Ingeniería (siglos XIX-XXI)”.

Vincenzo Piluso is Full Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of Salerno University (Italy) since 2001, Full Member of ECCS (European Convention for Constructional Steelwork) Technical Committee TC13 "Seismic Design" since 1994. He is also member of CEN-TC250-SC9 PT3, i.e. one of the project teams charged of the revision of Eurocode 9 on Aluminum Structures, and of the working groups CEN-TC250-SC3 WG1.8 and CEN-TC250-SC8 WG2 supporting the revision of Eurocodes, respectively on structural steel connections and steel structures in seismic areas. He is the author of more than 300 papers and two books on "Theory and Design of Seismic Resistant Steel Frames" (Spon Press, London, 1996) and "Structural Steel Semirigid Connections" (CRC Press, Florida, 2000).

Graduated in Civil Engineering in 1987 at the Palermo University. The research work begins in 1996 as PhD in Structural Engineering and as post-doc in 1998. In 2000 she becomes researcher in the Structural Engineering Department of university of Palermo and in 2001 Associate Professor, in 2016 Full Professor in the same department. Author and co-author of about 90 scientific papers dealing with the following fields: Stochastic Dynamics, active and passive control, stochastic differential calculus. From 2014, Honorary Professor at Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

Dr. Alaa M Rashad is a professor in the Building Materials Research and Quality Control Institute, Housing & Building National Research Center (HBRC), Cairo, Egypt. He obtained his Masters in Civil Engineering – Structural Engineering from Cairo University in 2000 and his PhD in Structural Engineering from Cairo University in 2005. He completed his post doctoral in Queen's University, Belfast-United Kingdom, 2009. His research interests include building materials, blended cement, fire resistance, durability, recycling, alkali-activated materials. He has a lot of publications in ISI journals and a lot of citations. He reviewed a lot of papers for different journals. He is one of the highest achievers in peer review across the world's journals during 2017 in Engineering and Materials Science.

Gianvittorio Rizzano received his PhD in structural engineering at the University of Naples in 1995, defending a thesis on the behavior and design of semi-rigid steel frames. Subsequently, he held the post-Ph.D 1996-1999 position, he was an associate researcher from 1997 to 2008 and associate professor 2009-2017. He is currently Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Salerno (Italy) where he teaches "Structural Engineering" and "Structural Rehabilitation". Author of over 250 scientific articles and co-author of the book "Structural Steel Semirigid Connections (CRC Press)", he is currently a member of the ECCS TC10 European Commission dedicated to EC3 part 1.8 "design of joints".

Alcínia Zita Sampaio, 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. Teacher and supervisor of Technical Drawing and Computer Aided Drawing for Civil Engineering students, since 2001. Coordination of short courses: (2013) and (2014). The main research fields are BIM and Virtual Reality. Supervisor of doctoral theses and master's thesis on the topic of BIM .

Pijush Samui is working as an associate professor in civil engineering department at NIT Patna, India. He graduated in 2000, with a B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India. He received his M.Sc. in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (2004). 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). In 2010, Dr. Pijush joined in the Center for Disaster Mitigation and Management at VIT University as an Associate Professor. He was promoted to full Professor in 2012. Dr. Pijush is the recipient of the prestigious CIMO fellowship (2009) from Finland, for 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 was selected as the recipient of IGS Sardar Resham Singh Memorial Award – 2013 for his innovative research on infrastructure project. He was elected Fellow of International Congress of Disaster Management in 2010. He served as a guest in disaster advance journal. He also serves as an editorial board member in several international journals. He has been selected as an adjunct professor at Ton Duc Thang University (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). He has been Visiting Professor at Far East Federal University (Russia).

Mat Santamouris is Professor of Energy Physics at the University of Athens. He is Associate Editor of the Solar Energy Journal and Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Solar Energy, Journal of Energy and Buildings, Journal of Sustainable Energy, and of the Journal of Ventilation. He is Editor of the Series of Book on Buildings, Energy and Solar Technologies published by James and James Science Publishers in London. He has published 9 international books on topics related to solar energy and energy conservation in buildings. He is guest editor of eight special issues of various scientific journals. He has coordinated many international research programs and he is author of almost 130 scientific papers published in international scientific journals. He is visiting professor at the Metropolitan University of London.

Dr. LUIGI DI SARNO received his Laurea Degree in Civil Engineering from University of Naples, Italy. He then did MSc in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics in 2000 and also MSc in Structural Steel Design from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK in 2001. He also became a Ph.D. in Earthquake Engineering (Jointly University of Salerno, Italy and Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK) in 2001. Currently, he is visiting professor and lecturer in multiple universities around the world.

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.

Ted Stathopoulos received his Civil Engineering Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and both his M.E.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. He is currently Professor at the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering of Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His research in the area of wind effects on buildings and their codification has been influential in the development of codes and standards around the world. He is the Editor of the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. He has received an Honorary Doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; and another one from the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Francesca Stazi graduated with honours in Architecture and Civil Engineering at Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy. She is Ph.D. and Associate Professor in Building Construction. She is 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 co-author of 3 patents. She is reviewer for several ISI Journals. Her studies regard 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. Su is an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has published over a hundred SCI cited journal papers in the field of seismic design of concrete and masonry structures, strengthening of concrete members using external steel plates, fracture analysis of MEE, concrete and graphite materials. Dr. Su is currently an editor of The Open Construction & Building Technology Journal published by Bentham Science Publishers.

Dr Evelyn Teo is presently Associate Professor of Building in the School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore where she has previously served as Programme Director of Bachelor of Science in Project and Facilities Management and Director of External Affairs. Besides having many years of professional experience in the local construction industry, she has participated in building research works in Australia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. She currently serves as Co-Director for the NUS Centre of Excellence in BIM Integration.

Dr. F. Pacheco-Torgal is a Principal Investigator at C-TAC Research Centre, University of Minho. He holds the Counsellor title of the Portuguese Engineers Association. Dr. Pacheco-Torgal is Grant assessor for many organizations, such as Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, the Australian Research Council, the British Research Council, The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, etc. He has authored around 300 publications, and is a member of the editorial board of 7 international journals. He is also invited reviewer for 110 international journals for which he has already reviewed around 520 papers. His review record places him at the Top 0.1% between almost 200,000 reviewers registered in Publons.

Dr. L. T. Wong is an associate professor of 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 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. Jyh-Bin YANG, A Professor in the Graduate Institute of Construction Engineering and Management at the National Central University, Taiwan. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Construction Management Journal (in Chinese). His research interests include Construction Management & Project Management, Project Scheduling & Delay Analysis, Procurement Performance Evaluation & Performance-Based Contract, BIM and IT applications in Construction Management, and Knowledge Management System Development. He has published more than 200 journal and conference articles, and has received several academic awards.

Professor Vladislav Zaalishvili received his Academic degree of candidate of physico-mathematical sciences, Institute of Geophysics of Georgian Academy of Sciences in 1986. Academic degree of Doctor of physico-mathematical sciences, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, physics department, in 1996. Academic degree of Doctor of physico-mathematical sciences, Institute of Geophysics of Georgian Academy of Sciences, in 2005. Academic status, full professor, 2007. Director of Geophysical Institute of Vladikavkaz Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research area of expertise lies in the geophysics, engineering seismology, seismic hazard and risk etc. He is author and co-author of: 600 papers, 65 patents, 27 books

Dr. Xiangming Zhou is a Reader in Civil Engineering Design at Brunel University London. His research covers a board range of topics in construction materials, with focus on cement and concrete, and structural engineering. He has a sustained track record of high quality research publications on those topics. His research has been funded by EPSRC, EU 7th Framework Programme, Horizon 2020, Royal Academy of Engineering etc. He has been leading multi-million pounds EU collaborative research projects. He has been peer reviewer for 40+ academic journals and the main funding bodies. He is a member of EPSRC College

Dr Paul Awoyera obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering (structures and materials) from Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria. He holds a Masters degree in Civil Engineering with major in Structural Engineering and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. Paul is a registered engineer with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), a member of the International Association for Engineers (IAENG), and a corporate member of the Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE). He has also served as the editor/editorial board member and reviewer for numerous international journals. He has also received the Commonwealth and University of Nottingham Split-site PhD Scholarship in 2016.

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 Ali Behnood received a PhD from Purdue University (USA), in 2016. He was also a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant at Purdue University. He has authored and co-authored more than thirty publications in international journals, conference proceedings, technical reports and book chapters; most of them are indexed by Scopus and/or WoS. His research activities and interests include Pavement Engineering, Concrete Durability, Asphalt Binders and Mixtures, Artificial Intelligence, Soil Stabilization, and Transportation Economics and Safety.

Giovanni Biondi is qualified as Associate Professor of “Soil Mechanics” and is senior lecturer of “Geotechnical Engineering”, “Foundations” and “Earth-Retaining Structures” at the Messina University (Italy) where he is also Director of the Laboratory of Soil Mechanics and Scientific Responsible of the facilities for Shaking table tests with laminar box”. He is also member of the ISSME, of the ICG and of the Organizing and Scientific Committees of the VII ICEGE and of the XII International Conference on Geosynthetics. He is author of more than 100 papers in the field of geotechnical earthquake engineering and ground improvement techniques.

Hugo Biscaia received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering/Structures from New University of Lisbon (2012). He finished his MSc degree in Structures Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon and since then, he has been developing his research activity in the field of strengthening structures with Fibre Reinforced Polymers. Among other works, he performed different experimental studies on the interface behavior between bonded materials (e.g. FRP, concrete, timber, steel, aluminum, masonry) and their numerical and/or analytical modeling. He is also interested on the degradation of these bonded interfaces when subjected to aggressive environmental conditions. He has authored/co-authored more than 30 papers in ISI/Scopus journals.

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 reviewer for many scientific journals and author of more than 100 publications, several of which are published on international journals.

Paolo Castaldo is Assistant Professor at the Department of Structural, Geotechnical and Building Engineering (DISEG), Politecnico di Torino (Italy). Previously, he has been Research Assistant at the University of Salerno (Italy). In 2012, he earned the PhD degree in Seismic and Structural Engineering at the University of Salerno (Italy). He is member of different scientific Bodies, author of several scientific articles published in International and National Journals and Conferences. He is also author of a book entitled “Integrated seismic design of structure and control systems”. He is member of editorial boards of some scientific journals.

Amin Chegenizadeh is senior lecturer in civil and mechanical engineering schools in Curtin University, Australia. His area of expertise is soil stabilization along with other geotechnical Cooperated in industry and engineering teams for 10 years to pursuit the goals of projects, collaborated and shared the progress of works in regular construction meetings, worked with the different discipline of engineers. Extensive knowledge of local geotechnical challenges of pavements and mine infrastructures in WA throughout and Australia my career. Knowledgeable and skilled at standard laboratory tests and operation of delicate and advanced laboratory equipment. Developing the hands on practice in geomechanics lab in Curtin University.

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.

Dr. Dario De Domenico is a Research Fellow at the Dept. of Engineering, University of Messina, Italy, and Adjunct Professor at the Dept. of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, Syracuse, Italy. He received his PhD in Materials and Structural Engineering at the University of Reggio Calabria, Italy. Previously, he was Visiting Researcher at the Dept. of Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK, and at the Lab. of Mechanics and Materials, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He also spent one year in industry as Research Project Engineer. Author of more than 70 publications in the fields of earthquake engineering, structural control, and mechanics of materials (concrete, FRP).

Prof. Beatrice Faggiano received doctoral degree in Structural engineering at UNINA in 2001. Since 2013, she is a 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.

Massimiliano Ferraioli is Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at the Department of Engineering of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, teaching several topics related with Structural Analysis, Earthquake resistant design and Seismic rehabilitation of buildings. He is the author of more than 120 papers, including book chapters, scientific journals and international conferences. He is scientific reviewer and member of the editorial board of many international journals. Engaged in national and international research projects, his research interests include: Seismic isolation and passive energy dissipation, Seismic design and retrofit of buildings, Progressive collapse of structures, Safety of old iron railway bridges, Seismic assessment of masonry towers.

Dr. Golafshani, who awarded his Ph.D. in 2014 from Polytechnic University of Technology of Iran, is an assistant professor at the faculty of civil engineering, architecture and art in Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch since 2015. His research interests focus on the development of artificial intelligence, metaheuristic optimization methods in civil engineering, mechanical and durability properties of high-performance and green concrete, sustainability and construction engineering and management. He is the author of numerous publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Nihat Kabay received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Yildiz Technical University, Turkey. He has been awarded post-doctoral scholarship and performed his research at Arizona State University, US in 2014-2015. Dr. Kabay is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Civil Engineering Department/Construction Materials Division of Yildiz technical University. His research interests include lightweight concrete, durability of concrete and fiber reinforced concrete. His current research focuses on energy efficient lightweight materials incorporating phase change materials and potential use of industrial waste materials as alternative binders in concrete.

Dr. Chien-Ho Ko is currently a full professor in the Civil Engineering Department at National Pingtung University of Science and Technology. He was a faculty member in the Industrial Engineering and Technology Management Department at Da-Yeh University. Prior to this profession, Dr. Ko conducted his postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley on government funds of Ministry of Education. He is a registered professional engineer of fire protection. His research encompasses around lean construction, robotics, artificial intelligence, and information technology.

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 reviewer of more than 20 International journals and reviewer of research proposals.

Massimo Latour got his PhD at 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. He is involved in experimental and theoretical research. His contribution to the scientific community is demonstrated by the works published in journals and in national and international conferences. His research activity mainly deals with seismic design, connections’ behavior, wooden and steel structures, FEM and the development of strategies for supplemental damping.

Mirko Mazza graduated in Civil Structural Engineering at the University of Calabria where also holds a Ph.D. degree in Computational Mechanics. He worked as research fellow at the Department of Structures and at the Department of Engineering Modeling of the University of Calabria and was adjunct professor of “Structural Mechanics” at the Polytechnic of Bari and of “Earthquake Engineering” at the University of Calabria. Now he is adjunct professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Calabria where he is giving the course of "Structural Engineering". He is author of 60 publications regarding topics of of Earthquake Engineering and Computational Mechanics.

Nicola Nisticò has graduated in engineering at the University "LA SAPIENZA" of Rome. He has obtained the PhD at the University of Florence and after he has been Researcher at the Italian National Group for Defense Against Earthquakes (GNDT). Since 1997 was assistant professor of structural engineering at the SAPIENZA University of Rome where actually 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 2) composite materials for existing and new structures c) macro-meso numerical modeling d) vibrations on constructions.

Dr. E.A. Oluwasola attended Obafemi Awolowo University Nigeria, University of Ibadan Nigeria and University Technology Malaysia where he obtained B.Sc, M.Sc and P.hD in Civil Engineering respectively. He is the present Head, Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Federal Polytechnic Ede Nigeria. He is also an adjunct senior lecturer at The Department of Civil Engineering, Adeleke University Ede Nigeria. Dr Oluwasola is a COREN registered engineer and a member of Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE). He has presented conference papers at both local and international levels and published papers in highly rated Scopus and web of science indexed journals.

Dr. Baki OZTURK is presently serving as an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Hacettepe University. He completed his B. Sc and M. Sc from METU, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey and he further obtained PhD in Civil Engineering from Purdue University, USA. He has also been recognized with awards such as Excellence in Teaching Award, Fellowhip for PhD Study by Department of Higher Education of Turkey and many others. He is also a Professional member of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, Structural Engineering Institute, and many others. He has also contributed his valuable publications in different journals.

Dr. Florin Pavel acquired his Ph.D. degree (in 2009) in Civil Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages, Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania. At present, Dr. Pavel is a Lecturer, in the Faculty of Civil, Industrial and Agricultural Buildings, at Technical University of Civil Engineering. His skills and proficiency mainly lie in the subject areas/fields of Structural analysis and structural dynamics, Structural reliability and risk analysis, Earthquake engineering, Design of RC structures, Design of steel structures, Geotechnical and foundation engineering, Design of civil buildings, Finite element method, etc. Dr. Pavel, as an author/co-author, has published over 35 manuscripts in various journals of international repute.

Barbara Lorenza Pintucchi has been awarded her 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.

Dr. Bassam A. Tayeh is an Associate Professor at the Civil Engineering Department at Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine. His research interests are in the areas of UHPFC, eco-friendly construction materials. He has many research works related to 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. He has presented many papers at several international conferences. He is a reviewer for many international journals.

Fabio Di Trapani is Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering at Polytechnic of Turin. He obtained his MSc and PhD at the University of Palermo. He has been visiting researcher at the University of California at San Diego (USA). He is author of more than 50 paper published on 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.

Dr. Enrico Tubaldi joined in October 2017 the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Strathclyde University as Lecturer in Structural Engineering. Before joining Strathclyde University, he was Marie Curie Research Fellow at Imperial College London with a research project entitled “Flood Risk Assessment and mitigation for Masonry Arch Bridges”. He received his PhD in Structure and Infrastructure Engineering in 2010 from Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy. He is author or co-author of more than 70 technical publications. His research interests are on risk assessment of structures and infrastructures under natural hazards.

Dr. Mohammadreza Vafaei, P.E., M. ASCE, M. EERI is currently a senior lecturer in the faculty of engineering, school of civil engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He received his PhD from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2013. Dr. Vafaei has served many international conferences as the scientific committee and has been selected as the keynote speaker for three international conferences. He has more than 45 publications in the referred journals and conferences. His main research fields are structural health monitoring, structural vibration control, and seismic retrofitting.