Prof. Eleni Chatzi
Chair of Structural Mechanics,
Institute of Structural Engineering, 
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zürich 
(Switzerland)

Eleni Chatzi received her PhD from the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University, New York. She is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of Structural Mechanics at the Institute of Structural Engineering of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering of ETH Zürich. She leads an international team of researchers working on data-driven monitoring, automated condition assessment and intelligent decision support for engineered systems, with applications spanning across civil, mechanical and aerospace infrastructure. She serves as editor of established journals in the field of dynamics and SHM (MSSP, ASCE-RUENG, ASCE-EMI, NSIE, JSV), and as scientific committee member of international conferences in the field of SHM. Her research has been supported by the European Commission, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the ETH Research Foundation. She serves as director of the Computational Science Zurich PhD Program, and a Core Group member of COST Actions TU1402, TU1406 focusing on assessment of infrastructure. She is currently leading the ERC Starting Grant WINDMIL on Smart Life-Cycle Assessment of Wind Turbines.

  Prof. Zachary Grasley
  Presidential Impact Fellow and Professor in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering and in the Materials Science & Engineering Department at Texas A&M University (TAMU) in College Station, TX USA

Zachary Grasley, Ph.D., PE is a Presidential Impact Fellow and Professor in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering and in the Materials Science & Engineering Department at Texas A&M University (TAMU) in College Station, TX USA. Grasley is also the Director of the Center for Infrastructure Renewal (CIR) and serves on the Board of Advisors for OSC Concrete, Inc. He received a BS in Civil Engineering from Michigan Technological University in 2001, followed by an MS (2003) and PhD (2006) in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the advisement of David Lange.

A Fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), Grasley has authored over 50 journal papers, given numerous invited seminars, and has been recognized with more than 25 honors and awards, including the ACI Young member Award for Professional Achievement, ACI Walter P Moore, Jr., Faculty Achievement Award, and NSF CAREER award. He was recently cited by Academic Analytics as among the top 3% most productive academic researchers in civil engineering. In addition to directing the CIR, Grasley continues to pursue research on novel cementitious materials, experimental techniques, and advanced models in order to help innovate the cement and concrete industry.

Prof. Amir M Kaynia
Department of Structural Engineering, 
Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Norwegian and Norwegian Geotechnical Institute 
(Norway)

Amir Kaynia has more than 30 years of experience in geotechnical, structural and earthquake engineering through research, teaching and engineering practice. His major fields of work include dynamic soil-structure interaction, earthquake engineering, and vibration from high-speed railways. He received his MSc (1979) and PhD (1982) from MIT in Structural Engineering, and is currently Technical Expert on Vibration and Earthquake Engineering at NGI. He is also an Adjunct Professor of structural engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Amir Kaynia has delivered numerous invited lectures at international conferences. He is author/co-author of several book chapters and more than 160 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on earthquake engineering, soil/structural dynamics, and has supervised numerous MSc and PhD thesis researches. Amir Kaynia led numerous major international engineering projects and several European and national research projects. He is a member of the CEN committee on revision of Eurocode 8, Part 5, and is on the Editorial Board of journals of Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering and Transportation Geotechnics.

Prof. Reinhold Kienzler
Department of Production Engineering,
University of Bremen 
(Germany)

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Reinhold Kienzler studied structural engineering at and earned his doctoral degree in applied mechanics from the Technical University of Darmstadt. After his post-doc period at Stanford University, California, and his work as a senior research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials in Freiburg, he has been appointed as Professor for Structural Mechanics at the University of Bremen since 1991. His fields of work include disc, plate and shell theories as well as fracture and damage mechanics with a special emphasis on configurational mechanics. Since 2004 he is Editor-in Chief of the Archive of Applied Mechanics. He is an honorary member of the Polish and Hellenic Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and an honorary doctor (h. c.) of the Ilia Vekua Institute of Applied Mechanics at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia.

Prof. Joe F. Labuz
Department Head and MSES/Miles Kersten Professor,
Department of Civil,
Environmental and Geoengineering,
University of Minnesota (USA)

Joseph Labuz is MSES/Kersten Professor and Department Head of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He received his degrees in civil engineering, with BS from Illinois Tech, MS and PhD from Northwestern University. In 1987, he joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota. His area of expertise is experimental geomechanics, dealing with constitutive behavior of fluid-saturated rock; quasi-brittle fracture; and acoustic emission monitoring. Labuz has two US patents, published 90 papers in refereed journals, and advised 49 graduate students. He is on the editorial board of Geomechanics for Energy & the Environment, International Journal of Rock Mechanics & Mining Sciences, and Rock Mechanics & Rock Engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Prof. Eyad Masad
Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies Direct of the Division    of    Texas Engineering Experiment Station in Qatar,Professor, Zachry Department    of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M, University, College Station, TX, Professor,      Mechanical Engineering Program, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha,            (Qatar)

Dr. Eyad Masad is a professor in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University and a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Program at Texas A&M at Qatar.  He is also the Executive Director of Global Initiatives in the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station.

Dr. Masad is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a member of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, and a member of the American Society for Engineering Education.  He was the Chair of the Pavement Committee of the Geo-Institute, ASCE.  He is the recipient of the James Laurie Prize for 2019 from the Transportation and Development Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Eisenhower Graduate Research Fellowship (1997), and the Eisenhower Faculty Fellowship in Transportation Engineering (1998) from the Federal Highway Administration.  He is also the recipient of the W. J. Emmons Award for the best paper published in the Journal of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT) (2001), and the Best Paper Award from the International Journal of Road Materials and Pavement Design (2004).  He received several university awards including the Dean’s Leadership Award (2017), Zachry Professorship (2015), the Dean’s Meritorious Service Award (2010), Halliburton Professorship Award for Scholarly Excellence in Engineering (2009), the Texas Transportation Institute/Trinity New Researcher Award (2006), the ConocoPhillips Faculty Fellow Award for outstanding performance (2005), and the Zachry Award for Excellence in Teaching (2004).

Dr. Masad research focuses on constitutive modeling of geomaterials, micromechanical characterization of materials, and analysis and design of pavement systems.  He has published more than 350 technical papers and reports including 200 journal papers.  He is also the holder of one US patent.  He is the co-author of a book on Pavement Design and Materials, which is adopted for teaching pavement courses in many universities around the world. Dr. Masad has established several research laboratories and chaired/co-chaired many conferences, symposia and workshops sponsored by professional organizations all over the world.  He has delivered numerous training courses for the industry and transportation agencies.  He has been a consultant of many projects in the United States and Middle East.