Riadh Al-Mahaidi is the Director of the Smart Structures Laboratory and a Professor of Structural Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He previously held the position of Vice President (International Engagement) at Swinburne and he was the Head of the Structures Group at Monash University.

His research focuses on the lifetime integrity of structures, with a particular interest in structural strength assessment and retrofitting using advanced composite materials. His current research projects involve strengthening bridges using fiber reinforced polymers combined with cement-based bonding agents, improving the fatigue life of metallic structures using advanced composite systems and shape memory alloys, and assessing structure collapse through multi-axis hybrid testing.

Fellow of various institutions, including Institution of Engineers Australia, American Concrete Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, The International Institute for FRP in Construction (IIFC), Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), and the Bridge Engineering Institute.

Recipient of many awards and honors, including the 2023 IIFC Medal for distinguished contributions to the field of FRP composites for construction through research or practical applications and the 2021 IABMAS Special Service Award from the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety, among others. Author of over 250 journal articles, 270 conference papers and 18 authored/edited books and conference proceedings.

Abdeldjelil Belarbi is currently the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor at University of Houston and previously a Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology.

His main research interests include structural health monitoring, smart sensors, structural performance and durability in natural disasters, constitutive modeling of reinforced and pre-stressed concrete structures.

Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)

Recipient of over 30 awards and honors for his excellence in research, teaching and service to professional community

Author of over 230 technical research papers.

Wit Derkowski is currently associate professor at Linnaeus University in Sweden and lecturer at the postgraduate program in precast concrete structures in Porto, Portugal. Previously, until 2020, he was employed as a professor at the Cracow University of Technology in Poland, where he held the position of director of the Institute of Building Materials and Structures and Head of the Prestressed Concrete Structures Chair.

His research concerns precast and prestressed concrete structures and more recently timber-concrete composite structures and circularity in construction business.

Deputy Chair of Commission 6 "Prefabrication" of the International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib) and Chairman of the Polish fib Delegation.

Member of the Concrete Structures Section of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Member of the Technical Committee of the International Prestressed Hollowcore Association (IPHA) "HOLCOLODIS" research program.

Chairman of Technical Committee No. 195 "Precast Concrete Products" of the Polish Committee for Standardization.

His doctoral thesis (2005) on fatigue life of RC beams strengthened with CFRP laminates was awarded by the Polish Minister of Transport and Construction and his post-doctoral thesis (2017) on structural analysis of prefabricated floor slabs with structural topping was awarded by the Polish Minister of Investment and Development.

In 2022 he was awarded the fib Fellow honour.

Author of over 100 technical research papers.

Practicing engineer, with a full Polish building licenses and building appraiser certificate. Since 2006 owner of the PiEB Consulting Company.

Alper İlki is Professor of Structural Engineering at Istanbul Technical University.

His main research interests include the structural seismic behaviour of reinforced concrete and masonry structures. Other fields of his research are large scale structural testing and structural/seismic retrofitting, particularly through innovative techniques and materials.

Editor of Turkish Journal of Civil Engineering.

Associate editor or editorial board member of ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction and Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering.

Co-editor of three international books published by Springer titled Seismic Risk Assessment and Retrofitting, Seismic Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Structures, and Advances in Assessment and Modeling of Earthquake Loss.

Member of the IIFC Council.

Head of Turkish Delegation to fib.

Chairman of the executive committee of Turkish Earthquake Foundation.

Member of the board of Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool.

Francesco Pesavento is Associate Professor of Solids and Structural Mechanics at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering of the University of Padova (Italy). He is graduated from University of Padova in Civil Engineering. He obtained his PhD in Structural Mechanics in 2001 at the University of Bologna (Italy). From 2002 to 2011 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Padova. He received a professor title (association) in 2011 and the National Scientific Qualification to the position of Full professor in 2018.

His research interests include non-linear mechanics of structures, geo-materials, concrete; heat and mass transfer and related stress phenomena in geo-materials and building materials; thermodynamics of unsaturated porous media with damage effects; thermo-hydro-mechanical analysis of high and ultra-high performance concrete at high temperature; numerical modeling of fire in buildings and tunnels (from fire scenario to structural behavior); modeling of the hydration, aging, creep and degradation processes in the analysis of the durability of cementitious, building materials and concrete structures; numerical modeling based on isogeometry in multifield problems; multifield fracture mechanics in cementitious, building and geo-materials with application to civil, environmental and nuclear engineering.

Member of the Italian Association of Computational Mechanics (GIMC).

Member of Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA).

Member of International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (Rilem).

Member of Italian Association of Concrete Structures (AICAP).

Member of International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM).

Author of approximately 300 papers published in peer review international and national journals, conference proceedings and chapters in books.

UEDA Tamon is Distinguished Professor at College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University and Professor Emeritus of Hokkaido University. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1982. His research interests are in concrete and hybrid structures, interventions, and life cycle management.  He has been appointed by Dalian University of Technology as Sea-Sky Scholar, Zhejiang University as Pao Yu-Kong Chair Professor, Shenzhen University as Distinguished Visiting Professor, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology as Visiting Professor, etc. 

He has published over 280 peer-reviewed papers, over 60 invited papers at international conferences, and over 170 invited lectures in 17 countries. 

He has received various international and national awards on his research/professional achievements (The fib Medal of Merit, Thammasat Honorary Award, METI Award for Industrial Standardization Project, JSCE International Lifetime Contribution Award, JSCE Lifetime Achievement Award, JSCE Yoshida Prize, etc), and awards from international journals (Journal of Composites in Construction, Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology, Advances in Structural Engineering), and domestic journals (JSCE, JCI, JPCI). 

He is Honorary Life Member, Fellow and Technical Council Member of fib, Fellow and Advisory Committee Chair of IIFC, Immediate Past Chair of International Steering Committee of EASEC, Past President of ACF, Chair of ISO/TC71, Past Chief Advisor of AUN/SEED-Net, Member of The Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ), Immediate President of JSCE, and Past Chairman of Association for Civil Engineering Technology of Hokkaido.  He is Academician, The Engineering Academy of Japan.

Since 2019, faculty member in the Dept. of Mechanical Eng. at UML with expertise in building envelopes, energy efficiency, material engineering, building science, thermal insulation, heat storage, and building integrated solar technologies. For 10 years, Dr. Kośny worked as a junior faculty at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, at the Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland, and later, he worked for 20 years at the ORNL’ Buildings Technology Center. During 2010-19, he served as a director of Building Enclosures & Materials at Fraunhofer USA. He has published 2 books, 9 book chapters, over 170 technical articles, 200 presentations, reports, and patents. His self-locking concrete technology was presented among 100 best U.S. technological developments by the Popular Science Magazine. He is also a recipient of the 2009 R&D 100 Award (annual award for 100 best technologies in the USA).

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, USA

Director - Building Energy Efficiency and Temperature Control Materials Laboratory

Co-Director - Photovoltaic Prototyping and Testing Laboratory

Associate Editor - Frontiers, Solar Energy in Urban Development

Editorial Board Member – Buildings Journal