(Listed in alphabetical order by last name)

Prof. Jose M. Adam

Jose M. Adam is a Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València – UPV, where he is engaged in teaching in the Civil Engineering School and the Department of Construction Engineering. Prof. Adam is the chair of Building Resilient, an ICITECH research group at UPV. Before joining UPV in 2005, he worked as a structural engineer and was involved in the design and construction of many large projects. At present, he and his team perform research in the fields of structural engineering and construction, always aiming to improve the resilience of buildings and bridges. Prof. Adam is an experimental researcher, and his research has always been associated with ambitious experimental campaigns, including many on full-scale structures. He combines basic and applied research with a high degree of transfer to industry. Prof. Adam is a founding partner of the spin-off company Calsens, Editor-in-Chief of Construction and Building Materials, and holder of two ERC Grants for the amount of €2.6 million. One of his research works was recently featured on the cover of Nature magazine.

Prof. Guowei Ma

Guowei Ma is the Vice President of Hebei University of Technology. He is ranked in the top 0.05% of scientists globally in civil engineering. Prof Ma is the founding president of the 3D Printing Commission, China Concrete & Cement-based Products Association, and the founding chair of the 3D Printing Technical Committee, Asian Concrete Federation. He serves as an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Geoengineering, and editorial board members of a number of international and Chinese journals. His main research interests are 3D concrete printing, new structures and materials, rock mechanics and engineering, etc. He has published 7 academic monographs, and more than 500 peer-reviewed articles with an H-index of 76. He has received many research awards, including National Natural Science Award, Hebei Province Technological Invention Award, Hebei Province Natural Science Award, Guinness World Record, Gold Medal of International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, Nishino Medal, etc.

Prof. Mark Stewart

Mark Stewart is a Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney. He is an international leader in risk assessment, public policy decision-making, and protective infrastructure for extreme hazards. He has applied risk assessment and probabilistic methods to a wide range of infrastructure/engineering systems, including threats from terrorism and climate change. His ideas have been presented in four seminal books and many scientific and engineering papers, and have brought engineering and scientific expertise into the public policy domain. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and President of the International Association of Protective Structures.

Prof. Michael Todd

Michael Todd received his Ph.D. from Duke University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. Since 2003, he has been with the Structural Engineering Department at the University of California San Diego, where he serves as Distinguished Professor and Chair. His research interests are time series, ultrasonic, and fiber optic structural health monitoring/NDE and decision analytics for SHM/NDE. He has published over 600 journal papers and proceedings. He won the 2005 SHM Person-of-the-Year Award, the 2016 Society of Experimental Mechanics DeMichele Award, the 2021 SHM Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2023 Roy Sharpe Prize for Outstanding Contribution to NDE, and the 2024 SPIE NDE Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering and a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Mechanics. He is the Managing Editor of Structural Health Monitoring.

Prof. Yong Xia

Yong Xia is a Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Director of the Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for Marine Infrastructure. His main research area is structural health monitoring. He obtained his PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He then worked at The University of Tokyo as a JSPS Fellow and at The University of Western Australia as a Research Associate before joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2006. He has published around 180 refereed international journal papers, co-authored three research books, and secured over 50 research projects. Dr. Xia is now the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Structural Engineering, an SCI journal. He was awarded The Nishino Prize (2013), State Technological Innovation Award in China (2018), and ASCE Greater China Distinguished Leadership Medal (2025), among many others.

Prof. Satoshi Yamada

Satoshi Yamada graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1988 and received his master’s degree in 1990. In 1994, he received his PhD degree from the University of Tokyo. He joined the University of Tokyo as Assistant Professor in 1990. In 1998, he was promoted to Associate Professor at the Structural Engineering Research Center of Tokyo Institute of Technology, and in 2014 he was promoted to full Professor. In 2020, he joined the Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo as a full Professor. His key research areas are seismic design of steel building structures, passive control structures, base-isolated structures and earthquake engineering. His domain of expertise is experimental studies and response analysis of steel building structures. He has published around 200 journal papers in this field. He was awarded the Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) Prize in 2014. From 2019 to 2020, he was a Vice President of Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering (JAEE).