Prof. Peter FAJFAR
Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Peter Fajfar is Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His main research interest is seismic analysis and design of structures. He published more than 250 papers and 4 monographs. Best known is his work on the pushover-based N2 method. He was a visiting professor at several prestigious universities, including Stanford University.

In the period 2003-2015 he was one of three Editors of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. He served on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Earthquake Engineering and was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Earthquake Engineering, where he is now an Honorary Member. He has been involved in the preparation of Eurocode 8 and leads the implementation of this standard in Slovenia which was the first country where Eurocode 8 became compulsory. As a designer, consultant and/or reviewer, he has participated in a large number of projects for industry.

Together with H.Krawinkler he organized three well known “Bled workshops”. He received several awards, among them the highest award for the scientific work in Slovenia. P.Fajfar is a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, of the Slovenian Academy of Engineering, and of the European Academy of Sciences (Belgium).

Prof. Atilla ANSAL
President of the EAEE, Chairman of Civil Engineering Department, Özyeğ University, TURKEY

He received his Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from Northwestern University, USA in 1977. He was promoted to full Professorship in 1988 in Istanbul Technical University. He moved to Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute of Bogaziçi University in 2002. Since March 2012, he is professor in the Engineering Faculty of Ozyegin University and Chairman of Civil Engineering Department.

He has been the Secretary General of European Association for Earthquake Engineering during 1994-2014 and President since 2014. He is the Editor in Chief of the Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering and the book series on “Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering” by Springer since 2002.

His main areas of interest are microzonation methodologies, earthquake scenarios, effects of geotechnical factors on earthquake damage, cyclic behaviour of clays and sands, liquefaction, variability of strong ground motion characteristics. He published about 250 articles in conference proceedings, journals, books and as technical reports in English and Turkish. He was the recipient of the Third Ord.Prof.Dr. Hamdi Peynircioglu Lecture Award in 1988, given by the Turkish National Committee on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering and the Third Prof.Dr.Rıfat Yarar Lecture award in 2015, given by Chamber of Turkish Civil Engineers and Earthquake Engineering Committee of Turkish Earthquake Foundation.

Prof. Gian Michele CALVI
IUSS Pavia, Eucentre Foundation, Italy and North Carolina State University, USA

He received a Master of Science from the University of California, Berkeley, a PhD from the Politecnico di Milano and a Honorary Doctorate from the University of Cujo, Mendoza, Argentina.

He has been the founder of the Eucentre Foundation and of the ROSE School (which originated the UME School); he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the GEM Foundation and is one of the Directors of the International Association of Earthquake Engineering.

He is author of hundreds of publications and of two major books: Seismic design and retrofit of bridges (with M.J.N. Priestley and F. Seible, 1996) and Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Structures (with M.J.N. Priestley and M.J. Kowalsky, 2007).

He has been designer, consultant or checker for hundreds of structural projects, including the Rion-Antirion cable stayed bridge (2883 m, in Greece), the Bolu viaduct (119 spans, in Turkey) and the new housing system after L’Aquila earthquake (2009), with 185 buildings seismically isolated with more than 7,000 devices, completed in about six months.

He is associate editor of the Journal of Earthquake Engineering (Taylor and Francis) and editor of Progettazione Sismica (IUSS Press, Pavia), a journal in Italian addressed to practitioners.

He has been invited keynote speakers in tens of conferences, including two World and three European Conferences on Earthquake Engineering.

He has been always active in conceptual innovation in seismic design, focusing on masonry in his early days, on bridges, displacement–based design and seismic isolation from the nineties.

Prof. Michael N. FARDIS
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, GREECE

Holds MSc Degrees in Civil Engineering and in Nuclear Engineering and a PhD in Structural Engineering from MIT, where he taught till 1983 to the rank of Associate Professor. Honorary President of the International Federation of Structural Concrete (fib) and Honorary Member of the International Association of Earthquake Engineering. Currently Editor of "Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics", Vice Chairman of CEN/TC250 "Structural Eurocodes" (2013-19) and Director of the International Association of Earthquake Engineering (2012-20). President of the International Federation of Structural Concrete (fib) in 2009-10 and Deputy President in 2007-08. Chairman of CEN/TC250/SC8 "Design of Structures for Earthquake Resistance" during the development of the European Standard Eurocode 8 (1998-2005). Author of “Seismic Design, Assessment and Retrofitting of Concrete Buildings” (Springer, 2009), lead author of “Seismic Design of Concrete Buildings to Eurocode 8" (CRC Press, 2015) and of "Designers’ Guide to EN1998-1 and EN1998-5: Eurocode 8-Seismic actions, buildings, foundations & retaining structures” (ICE Publishing 2005, translated to Italian, Russian, Greek), co-author of “Designers’ Guide to EN1998-2: Eurocode 8-Bridges” (ICE Publishing 2012) and author or co-author of 29 Chapters in international books. Edited or co-edited four books published by Springer and 10 other international books. Has 85 papers in international journals, 32 keynote or invited lectures at international conferences and 107 papers in international conference proceedings. He received the 1993 ACI Wason Medal for the best paper in materials.

Prof. Sergio LAGOMARSINO
Department of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, University of Genoa, ITALY

Sergio Lagomarsino is professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Genoa, since 2000. He has been President of the Master Degree Course on Architectural Engineering, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Director of the PhD course on Structural and Geotechnical Engineering. He is the author of many papers in international journals and chapters of scientific books on the following topics: seismic assessment of existing structures, nonlinear modelling of masonry structures, preservation of monumental buildings and historical centres, seismic risk and vulnerability analysis. He delivered invited lectures at many International Conferences and Seminars. He coordinated the European project PERPETUATE (www.perpetuate.eu) on the seismic assessment and protection of cultural heritage assets, as well as many other national projects. He sits on the editorial boards of “International Journal of Architectural Heritage" and of “Earthquakes and Structures”; he was Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Performance-Based Assessment of Cultural Heritage Assets: Outcomes of the European Project PERPETUATE” of the Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 13(1), 2015. He has served in the drafting panels of the Italian seismic code and the Italian Guidelines for cultural heritage in seismic areas. At present he is member of the Project Team 3 that is working on the revision of Eurocode 8 “Design of structures for earthquake resistance” - Part 3: “Assessment and retrofitting of buildings”. He has developed, together with co-workers, the software program TREMURI for the static and dynamic nonlinear analysis of masonry buildings. He has developed the survey form for post-earthquake damage assessment of ancient churches, used by the Italian Civil Protection Department and, at research level, in other countries, such as Portugal and New Zealand.

Prof. Sinan AKKAR
Boğaziçi University Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Istanbul, TURKEY

Sinan Akkar is a faculty member at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. His major fields of interest are development of ground-motion predictive models (GMPEs), compilation of strong-motion databases as well as probabilistic seismic hazard and risk assessment. He was involved in various EU-FP7 and GEM funded international projects such as SHARE (Seismic Hazard Harmonization in Europe), EMME (Earthquake Modelling of the Middle East), STREST (Harmonized Approach to Stress Tests for Critical Infrastructures against Natural Hazards) and NERA (Network of European Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Risk Assessment and Mitigation). He was part of the pan-European ground-motion database (RESORCE) compilation team in Seismic Ground Motion Assessment (SIGMA) project.

He acted as either a resource expert, proponent, coordinator or technical evaluator in the ground-motion characterization tasks of various nuclear power plant projects (PEGASOS Refinement Project, Southwest United States Project, Reevaluation of Probabilistic Seismic Hazard of Nuclear Facilities in Taiwan Using SSHAC Level 3 Methodology, Sinop Nuclear Power Plant Feasibility Study). Apart from his involvements in the above international projects, he served for the Compilation of National Strong-Motion Database, Revision of Turkish Seismic Hazard Maps and Preliminary Evaluation of Earthquake Insurance Premium for Metropolitan Areas under the Revised Seismic Hazard Maps in Turkey projects. He is co-authored +50 peer-reviewed papers in SCI covered international journals.

Prof. Dimitris BESKOS
Institute of Structural Engineering and Disaster Reduction, Tongji University, CHINA, and Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, GREECE

Dimitri E. Beskos is presently Chair Professor at the Institute of Structural Engineering and Disaster Reduction of Tongji University, Shanghai, China and Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering of the University of Patras, Greece. He obtained his Diploma (1969) from the NTUA in Greece and his M.Sc (1971) and Ph.D (1974) from Cornell University in the USA. He has served at the University of Minnesota, USA for 10 years and the University of Patras, Greece for 33 years. His research areas include Computational Mechanics, Structural and Earthquake Engineering and Applied Mechanics. His publication record includes 21 books, 21 chapters in books, 194 journal papers and 240 conference proceedings papers with 4769 citations and h=40 according to Scopus. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering and Editorial Board Member in other 10 International Journals. He is a Fellow of ASCE, IACM, NYAS and WIT, Member of the Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens. He has supervised 22 Doctoral students with 11 of them being University Professors.

Dr. Philippe BISCH
International expert, EGIS Industries, Montreuil, FRANCE

Philippe Bisch is a civil engineer from “Ecole des Ponts”, France. He has led a carrier of design engineer and consultant, and is now expert for EGIS Industries. Part of this carrier was also dedicated on one side to research projects, and on the other side to the management of the company.

In parallel, professor at “Ecole des Ponts” in courses related to structural mechanics, presently in charge of the courses “shells” and “dynamics and stability in the industry”. He has also been in charge of courses in some other engineering schools, like “Ecole des Ingénieurs de la ville de Paris” and “Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan”. Author of books and articles, mainly in the field of structural mechanics.

In the field of Earthquake engineering, he has been President of the European Association (EAEE) and of the French Association (AFPS). He is one of the authors of the previous French standard PS92. He has been participating to the Eurocode 8 project within CEN/TC250/SC8 since the beginning and is now chairman of this sub-committee.

Prof. Oreste S. BURSI
Department of Civil, Environmental & Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, ITALY

Oreste S. Bursi graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Padua in 1984, and achieved his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bristol. He is full professor of structural dynamics and control at the University of Trento since 2001. He has always been interested in complex dynamical non-linear systems consisting of structural and mechanical components as well as control devices. Devices have been used both to control in real time or test dynamical systems subjected to natural hazards based on computer hardware and software. Thus, through the analysis and design of such complex systems that require both advanced modelling and simulation and experimental techniques, Oreste S. Bursi has built up his scientific background tailored to multidisciplinary problems. As a result, he became the leader researcher in Europe in the area of heterogeneous dynamic substructure coupling. Recently, he addressed his research interests towards system identification and structural health monitoring of complex systems, e.g. bridges, pipes, etc., and quantitative risk assessment of critical petrochemical facilities subjected to technological accidents triggered by natural disasters. (http://r.unitn.it/en/dicam/nhmsdchttp://me.unitn.it/oreste-bursi/)

Prof. Fabrice COTTON
University of Potsdam, and GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, GERMANY

Fabrice Cotton is Professor at the University of Potsdam and the head of the seismic hazard and stress-field section of the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). He is actually chairing the science board of the Global Earthquake Model Foundation. He was a Professor of Geophysics at the University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France) from 2001 to 2015 and a scientist of the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety from 1996 to 2001. He received his Ph.D from the Grenoble University in 1996 and he was nominated junior fellow of “Institut Universitaire de France” in 2006.

His research interests concern the analysis of earthquake source properties, the characterization of strong ground-motions and the improvement of probabilistic seismic hazard models. His main tools are the analysis of earthquake near-field data (accelerograms, GPS). He has co-authored 80 publications in peer reviewed journals. He has been involved in a number of national and international projects involving seismic hazard assessments in France, Germany, Switzerland and South Africa. He has been coordinating several research programs and he is actually the PI of the working group in charge of the strong ground-motion modeling for the new European Hazard map (SERA and EPOS-IP European projects).

Prof. Mauro DOLCE
Director General at the Italian Department of Civil Protection, and University of Naples Federico II, ITALY

Mauro Dolce is Professor of Structural Engineering (1994-), University of Naples Federico II (2007-), and is Director General, Italian Department of Civil Protection (DPC) (2006-), where he was Head of the Seismic and Volcanic Risk Office (2006-2012) and is now scientific consultant (2012-).

He has coordinated the Civil Protection monitoring, prevention and mitigation activities in the field of the seismic risk. He coordinated the technical management in the emergency of the 06.04.09 Abruzzi Earthquake, the 20-29.05.2012 Emilia Earthquake, the 24.08.16 Central Italy Earthquake Sequence. He has also been coordinating the Italian seismic structural prevention programs (art. 11 of Law 77/2010) and the relationships of DPC with the scientific centres for seismic risk.

Research activities carried out in his academic involvement since 1978 have been mainly related to earthquake structural engineering and to seismic vulnerability and risk assessment, resulting in 400 scientific papers, 12 books, 8 volumes, and 8 patents. He was invited keynote speaker in several international conferences. He has been member and convenor of several national and international committees for structural engineering standards.

He is the Italian delegate (2008-) and President of the Governing Board of the Global Earthquake Model Foundation (2015-). He was vice-president of EAEE (2010-2014) and is currently a member of its Executive Committee (2002-).

Dr. John DOUGLAS
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

John Douglas obtained his Ph.D in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Engineering Seismology) in 2001, following a B.Sc. Hons (First Class) degree in Mathematics (both from Imperial College London, UK). In 2010, he was awarded his accreditation to supervise research (Habilitation à diriger des recherches) in seismology by the University of Grenoble (France).

Since June 2015 he is a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) working in the fields of seismic hazard and risk evaluation. Previously (2004-2015) he was a senior engineering seismologist at BRGM (French Geological Survey). From 2009 to 2014 he was a visiting professor at the Earthquake Engineering Research Centre, University of Iceland. He has been played a key role in various research, public service and commercial projects.

Dr Douglas is an associate editor of the “Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America”, the “Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering” and “Earthquake Spectra”, and an editor of “Pure and Applied Geophysics”. He is author or co-author of over 75 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. Since 2001 he has maintained a global compendium of ground-motion models (www.gmpe.org.uk). He won the French Association for Earthquake Engineering Young Researcher Prize in 2011. http://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/douglasjohndr/

Prof. Paolo FRANCHIN
Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, ITALY

Dr Franchin holds a Laurea and a Ph.D degree from Sapienza, and a Master of Science from University of California, Berkeley. His research in the broader field of earthquake engineering focuses on seismic risk and resilience assessment of structural and infrastructural systems. He has extensive experience in collaborative research having taken part in projects at the national and international level (e.g. within the 5th, 6th and 7th European Framework Programmes). He is leading the development of the modeling and simulation framework and software OOFIMS, for the analysis of interdependent civil infrastructure systems. He is a member of the Editorial Board of “Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructures” (Taylor & Francis). He is a member of fib, the International Federation for Structural Concrete, IASSAR; the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability; the Doctoral School in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering at Sapienza; the Scientific Committee of the EUCENTRE Foundation as well as a faculty of the European School in Reduction of Seismic Risk, both in Pavia. He has extensive consulting experience for the seismic design, assessment and retrofit of existing bridges and buildings, and is part of the Project Team for the revision of Eurocode 8 - Part 3 “Assessment and retrofitting of buildings”.

Prof. Iunio IERVOLINO
Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture, University of Naples "Federico II", ITALY

Iunio Iervolino is full professor of earthquake engineering and structural dynamics at the University of Naples Federico II where he also chairs the M.Sc program in structural and geotechnical engineering. He is the youngest full professor in Italy in the field of structural engineering. Iunio Iervolino has two masters, one in earthquake engineering from IUSS (Pavia, Italy) and one in management engineering, as well as a Ph.D in seismic risk; both M.Sc and Ph.D are from the University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy). Since his Ph.D thesis on the topic of seismic risk assessment of process industry facilities, he has authored more than three hundred publications in the field of risk assessment for civil structural and infrastructural systems and earthquake early warning methods. He has also advised about ten Ph.D students. Among awards and honors, he received the AXA Research Fund grant in 2011, a fellowship from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science and, in 2014, he was appointed Fulbright visiting professor at Stanford University (California). (http://wpage.unina.it/iuniervo/)

Prof. Alper ILKI
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, TURKEY

Alper İlki is a professor of structural engineering at Istanbul Technical University. The main theme of his academic studies is the seismic behavior of reinforced concrete and masonary structures, as well as seismic design, assessment and retrofitting. He is the author or co-author of more than 40 international journal papers and more than 140 international conference papers. He has supervised 8 completed Ph.D theses and more than 50 M.Sc theses. He has also served and is serving on the National Committees responsible for revising/drafting Seismic Design Code, and Regulation for Assessment of Highly Vulnerable Buildings. Other than acting as a reviewer or guest editor for more than 30 international reputable scientific journals, he is associate editor or editorial board member of “Bulletin New Zealand Society of Earthquake Engineering”, “International Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring”, “Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering and “Technical Journal of Chamber of Civil Engineers”, among few others. He also co-edited two international books published by Springer titled “Seismic Risk Assessment and Retrofitting”, and “Seismic Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Structures”.

Prof. Andreas KAPPOS
City University of London, UK, and Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, GREECE

Andreas Kappos is Professor of Civil Engineering at City, University of London since 2013. He is also part-time Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. From 1995 to 1999 he worked at Imperial College London, first as a lecturer and later as a Reader.

He works in the field of structural engineering, in particular analysis and testing procedures for structures subjected to earthquake loading. He published extensively in the field (over 300 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings), and his work is recognised internationally (over 3000 citations). He was involved in several consultancies on topics like the seismic design of bridges and buildings, assessment and retrofit of damaged structures, and various aspects of use of concrete in bridges, tunnels, etc.

He is the Secretary General of the European Association of Earthquake Engineering and Coordinator of its Working Group on bridges. He also served as a member of committees dealing with seismic design (he is the currently the Leader Team drafting the new Eurocode 8-Part 3) and assessment (various fib and EAEE task groups).

Prof. Amir M. KAYNIA
Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, and Department of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NORWAY

Amir M. Kaynia is Discipline Lead, Vibration and Earthquake Engineering at NGI, and Adjunct Prof. at Dept. of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He has received his BSc degree from Tehran University and his M.Sc and Ph.D degrees in Structural Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His areas of practice include earthquake engineering, soil dynamics and soil-structure interaction.

He has published more than 140 papers in peer reviewed journals and international conference proceedings, has authored 5 book chapters, and has held numerous keynote lectures. He has advised more than 25 M.Sc and 3 Ph.D theses on topics within structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering. He has participated in six research projects funded by the European Commission, and has coordinated two major projects funded by the European Commission and the Norwegian Research Council. In addition, he has managed a large number of national and international offshore and on-shore industrial projects. He is member of several national and international scientific committees and is Chairman of the Norwegian Earthquake Committee for national provisions in Eurocode 8. He is member of the Editorial Boards of the journals of “Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering” and “Transportation Geotechnics”.

Prof. Rafaelle LANDOLFO
Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture, University of Naples "Federico II", ITALY

Raffaele LANDOLFO is Full Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Naples "Federico II". He is currently the Head of the Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture at the University of Naples. His research activity involves the participation in several national and international research projects. He also served as Chairman the Working Group 3 within the European project COST Action C25 “Sustainability of Constructions: Integrated approach to Life-time Structural Engineering”. He served as president of ECCS (i.e. European Convention for Constructional Steelwork). Since 2007 he is the Chairman of TC13 that is the Technical Committee on Seismic Design of ECCS. Within this framework he is coordinating a research group made of International experts in order to revise and improve the current version of Chapter 6 “Steel structures” of Eurocode 8. Recently, he has been appointed as Convenor of Working Group 2 (WG2) – Steel and Composite Structures within CEN/TC250/SC8 Committee, which is the official body devoted to the maintenance and development of all parts of Eurocode 8. He is also active in other international standardization organizations (e.g. Committee CEN/TC 250/SC3, CEN/TC 250/SC9, etc.). He published a book and more than 400 scientific papers, mainly on national and international journals.

Prof. Paulo B. LOURENCO
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, PORTUGAL

Paulo B. Lourenço, professor, ISISE, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal and Co-Head of the Institute in Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE). Convener of the Project Team responsible for the revision of the Eurocode 6 - Part 1. He is experienced in the fields of NDT, advanced experimental and numerical techniques, innovative strengthening techniques, novel masonry products and earthquake engineering. He is specialist in structural repair, conservation and strengthening, with works in several World Heritage sites, such as Cathedral of Porto, Monastery of Jeronimos (Lisbon), Castle of Guimaraes, Qutb Minar (New Delhi) or Canterbury Cathedral (UK). He has worked in more than 100 monuments in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Cyprus, Iran, India, UK and Morocco. He is editor of the “International Journal of Architectural Heritage: Conservation, Analysis and Restoration”, editor of the Conference Series “Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions” and Coordinator of the European Erasmus Mundus Master Course on “Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions”. Supervisor of over 40 completed Ph.D theses and coordinator of several national and international research projects. He is author or co-author of more than 1000 technical and scientific publications in the fields of masonry, timber and concrete structures, with an h-index of 35.

Prof. Gopal S. P. MADABHUSHI
Department of Engineering, Director of Schofield Centre and Head of Geotechnical Group, University of Cambridge, UK

Dr Gopal Madabhushi is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge, UK and the Director of the Schofield Centre. He is also the Head of the Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Group at Cambridge. He has over 25 years of experience in the area of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. His expertise extends from dynamic centrifuge modelling to the time domain finite element analyses of earthquake engineering problems. He has an active interest in the areas of soil liquefaction, soil-structure interaction and liquefaction resistant measures and their performances. He has an active interest in the biomechanics of hip replacement surgeries. He has acted as an expert consultant to the industry on many geotechnical and earthquake engineering problems e.g. Mott MacDonald, Royal Haskonig and Ramboll-Whitby, UK. He has an active interest in post-earthquake reconnaissance work and has led engineering teams from UK to 921 Ji-Ji earthquake of 1999 in Taiwan, the Bhuj earthquake of 2001 in India and many other missions. He served as the Chairman of Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT) that runs under the auspicious of Institute of Structural Engineers, London. He served on the BGA Executive Committee from 2014-16. He was awarded the “TK Hsieh award” in 2005, 2010 and 2013 by the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK, the “BGA medal” in 2010 given by British Geotechnical Association, the “Shamsher Prakash Research Award” in 2006, “Medical Innovations Award” in 2007, the “IGS-AIMIL Biennial award” in 2008 and the “Bill Curtin Medal” in October 2009 by the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK, for his contributions in the area of Soil Dynamics, Tsunami’s and Earthquake Engineering. He has 130+ Journal Publications and 260+ papers in International conferences and workshops to date. He has authored a very successful book on the “Design of Pile Foundations in Liquefiable Soils” (Imperial College Press) and Geotechnical Chapters in the book on “Designing to Eurocode 8” (Taylor & Francis). His new book on “Centrifuge Modelling for Civil Engineers” was also published by Taylor and Francis publishing group.

Prof. Nicos MAKRIS
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, GREECE

http://www.civil.upatras.gr/en/Proswpiko/MelhDEP/entry/MakrisNicos/

Prof. Roberto PAOLUCCI
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY

He is working at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where he is presently Director of the Ph.D School in Structural, Seismic and Geotechnical Engineering. He has over 25 years of experience in participation and coordination of different national and international research projects, dealing with seismic hazard studies and earthquake ground motion evaluation, geotechnical earthquake engineering, dynamic soil-structure interaction, high-performance computing in elastodynamics.

He received in 2000 the Shamsher Prakash Award for young researchers in earthquake geotechnical engineering, and in 2006 the Outstanding Paper Award by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, California, for the paper “Displacement Specta for Long Periods”, Earthquake Spectra, 2004. He is author or co-author of about 120 scientific papers and has been keynote/invited speaker at several national and international conferences and workshops.

He is presently member of the Project Team SC8.T1, in charge of the revision and update of Eurocode 8 - Part 1, and of other Technical International Committees (TC203, WG1-EC8). He is member of the International Scientific Committee of the SEISM Institute, France, and of the Eucentre Foundation, Pavia, Italy.

Prof. Stefano PAROLAI
Head of the Centre for Early Warning Systems, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, GERMANY

Stefano Parolai obtained his diploma in geological sciences (1993) and a Ph.D in geophysics (1997) from the University of Genoa, Italy. Since 2000, he has worked at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in the fields of engineering seismology, seismic risk and early warning. In 2009 he was awarded a habilitation in engineering seismology from the TU Berlin. He is currently a senior scientist and the head of the Centre for Early Warning Systems (Section 7.1) at GFZ. He is the coordinator of the Earthquake Model Central Asia initiative, which is concerned with seismic risk assessment in Central Asia, the SIBYL (SeIsmic monitoring and vulneraBilitY framework for civiL protection) project within EC-ECHO, and was a work package leader within the FP7 MATRIX (New Multi-Hazard and Multi-Risk Assessment Methods for Europe) project. In addition, Prof. Parolai is the General Secretary of the European Seismological Commission.

He is the author of more than 130 publications on international scientific journals. He is Associate Editor for the “Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America” (since 2008) and for “Annals of Geophysics” (since 2013).

Prof. Alain PECKER
President of AP Consultant, Professor at Ecole Nationale des Ponts, Chaussées, FRANCE

Alain Pecker graduated from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France) in 1972 and obtained his M.Sc degree from the University of California, at Berkeley in 1973. Until 2015 he was Chairman and Managing Director of Géodynamique et Structure, a French engineering consulting firm in Earthquake Engineering that he founded 35 years ago; upon retiring he became independent consultant. His professional interest lies in soil dynamics, liquefaction, wave propagation, soil structure interaction and foundation engineering. He has been consultant to major worldwide civil engineering projects in seismic areas, most notably the Vasco de Gama bridge in Lisbon, the Rion Antirion bridge in Greece, the Athens metro, the Second Severn bridge in UK, the Chiloe bridge in Chile, the Atlantic bridge in Panama and several nuclear power plants in France, South Africa and Iran.

He is Past President of the French Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Honorary President of the French Association on Earthquake Engineering and member of the executive committee of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering. He is a member of the drafting panel of Eurocode 8 and President of the French Committee for seismic codes. He is also Professor at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and at the European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk (Pavia, Italy).

Autored more than 150 technical papers, been invited as keynote speaker in conferences and received several awards for his work, most notably twice from the French National Academy of Sciences. He has been elected Member of the French National Academy of Technologies in 2000.

Prof. Ioannis PSYCHARIS
School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, GREECE

Ioannis Psycharis is a full Professor at the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. He holds a Civil Engineering diploma from NTUA and a M.Sc and a Ph.D degree from the California Institute of Technology. He has taught several courses on Earthquake Engineering, Engineering Seismology and Soil Dynamics at NTUA and at the Greek Open University. He has served as advisor or as member of the advisory committee of more than 25 Ph.D theses and has supervised more than 150 diploma and M.Sc theses.

He is the author or co-author of more than 120 papers in refereed journals and international and national conferences and has participated in about 30 research projects, in one half of which he was the Principal Investigator. Additionally, he has a vast practical experience in the design of major civil engineering projects and has participated in the restoration of several monumental structures.

Currently, Prof. Psycharis serves as: Vice President of the Hellenic Association for Earthquake Engineering; Vice President of the Hellenic Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization (OASP); Head of the Department of Structural Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA; and National Delegate of Greece in the International Association for Earthquake Engineering.

Prof. Tizianna ROSSETTO
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, and Director of EPICentre, University College London, UK

Tiziana Rossetto is a Professor in Earthquake Engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE) at UCL where she directs the Earthquake and People Interaction Centre (EPICentre, www.ucl.ac.uk/epicentre ). EPICentre, founded in 2007 with seed funding from an EPSRC Challenging Engineering grant, is now the largest earthquake and tsunami risk research centre in the UK, with 13 academics, 30 research staff/PhD students and an MSc programme in Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management. Tiziana is acknowledged as an expert in the assessment of the seismic vulnerability of buildings and is a leader in the field of tsunami engineering, as proven by her award of a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant and the 2017 Shah Distinguished Lecture Award. She has also worked in collaboration with Psychologists on earthquake risk representations in lay-people and the implications for risk reduction programmes. She has participated in 8 post-earthquake reconnaissance missions with the UK Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (Institution of Structural Engineers). She is a Fellow of the UK Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Chair of the Society of Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED, ICE) and sits on the British Standards Institute Committee for the application Eurocode 8.

Prof. Božidar STOJADINOVIĆ
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, SWITZERLAND

Dr. Božidar Stojadinović is the Chair of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich. Before coming to ETH in 2011, he was a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and at the University of Michigan. His degrees are in Civil Engineering: PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1995, MS from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1990 and BS from the University of Belgrade, Serbia in 1988.

His main research interests are in engineering earthquake-resilient communities. He specializes in probabilistic performance-based seismic design and evaluation of structures and civil infrastructure systems. Besides resilience-based design, he is investigating new response modification techniques, such as rocking and seismic isolation, for seismic protection of civil infrastructure assets. He is also involved in the development of new experimental testing methods to evaluate the response of civil structures to dynamic excitation and fire using hybrid models that combine physical and numerical substructures. To date, he co-authored over 60 journal and over 200 conference papers. At ETH, he teaches courses in Structural Static and Dynamic Analysis and Seismic Design.

Prof. Elizabeth VINTZILEOU
School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, GREECE

Main research fields: seismic behaviour and design of RC and masonry structures, documentation and assessment of RC and masonry structures, non-destructive investigation techniques, interventions to existing RC structures and to historic structures and monuments. Teaching: Behaviour and Design of RC and Masonry Structures within the 5-year curriculum, Advanced Mechanics of Masonry, Intervention Techniques to Monuments and Historic Structures (Postgraduate Programmes). She has acted/is acting as Coordinator of 50 National and European research projects, member of the Central Council for Contemporary and Modern Monuments (Hellenic Ministry of Culture), she has authored/co-authored more than 250 papers in periodicals and proceedings of national and international conferences.

Prof. Friedemann WENZEL
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and Head of the Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology, GERMANY

Before receiving a PhD at Karlsruhe University in 1985 he was Research Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, New York (1979 – 1981). After 3 years as Associate Professor at the Geophysical Institute Karlsruhe he became Principal Research Scientist for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization and Fellow at School of Earth Sciences of Macquarie University, Sydney (1990 – 1992). Between 1992 and 1994 he was Director of the Department 'Structure of the Earth' at GeoForschungs Zentrum Potsdam, and Professor of Geophysics at Potsdam University. Since 1994 he is Professor at the Geophysical Institute in Karlsruhe. From 1996 to 2006 he coordinated the Collaborative Research Center: ‘Strong Earthquakes - A Challenge for Geosciences and Civil Engineering’ at Karlsruhe University, funded by the National Research Foundation (DFG) started in 1998 the ‘Earthquake and Megacities Initiative’ operating under the umbrella of UNESCO and ICSU; coordinated CEDIM (Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology) between 2006 and 2012, served as vice-chairman of the German Committee for Disaster Reduction and chairman of its Scientific Board (2000 – 2004); is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Science and Humanities; Professor Honoris Causa of Bucharest University; and member of the Academia Europaean.

Prof. Aspasia ZERVA
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA

Aspasia Zerva earned her Diploma with Honors from the Department of Civil Engineering at the Aristoteleion University in Thessaloniki, Greece, her M.Sc. from the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and her Ph.D. also from the Department of Civil Engineering also at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her principal expertise is in the analysis of seismic array data, modeling of spatially variable seismic ground motions, linear and nonlinear response of lifelines, system identification, simulation techniques, and signal processing. She has published widely on these topics and is an active consultant to the U.S. government on issues of the spatial variation of seismic ground motions. Dr. Zerva served on national and international panels on Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology, and as Program Director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Centers at the U.S. National Science Foundation.