Prof. Ioannis Brilakis

Prof Ioannis Brilakis is the Laing O'Rourke Professor of Civil & Information Engineering and the Director of the Construction Information Technology Laboratory at the Division of Civil Engineering of the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He completed his PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in 2005. He then worked as an Assistant Professor at the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2005-2008) and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (2008-2012) before moving to Cambridge in 2012 as a Laing O’Rourke Lecturer. He was promoted to Reader in October 2017 and to Professor in 2021. He has also held visiting posts at the Department of Computer Science, Stanford University as a Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Vision (2014) at the Technical University of Munich as a Visiting Professor, Leverhulme International Fellow (2018-2019), and Hans Fischer Senior Fellow (2019-2023), and as a Visiting or Honorary Professor at Tsinghua, HKU, CityU, HKUST, BJUT, and many other universities in Asia (2024-2026). He is a recipient of the 2024 IAARC Tucker-Hasegawa Award, the 2022 EC3 Scherer Award, 2022 EC3 Thorpe Medal, 2019 ASCE J. James R. Croes Medal, the 2018 ASCE John O. Bickel Award, the 2013 ASCE Collingwood Prize, the 2012 Georgia Tech Outreach Award, a 2010 NSF CAREER award, and a 2009 ASCE Associate Editor Award. Dr Brilakis is an author of over 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, an Associate Editor of the ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE Construction Engineering and Management, Elsevier Automation in Construction, and Elsevier Advanced Engineering Informatics Journals, the President of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction, and the lead founder of the European Council on Computing in Construction.

Prof. Albert de la Fuente

Albert de la Fuente is a full Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and founder of the C3S research group. His research focuses on Fiber Reinforced Concrete, 3D Printing with Cement-Based Materials, and Sustainability Assessment, with over 200 JCR-indexed publications, 100+ conference contributions, and 20+ PhD supervised. He intensively collaborates with the construction industry through research projects. He coordinates the EU co-funded project CIRC-BOOST. As fib Fellow, he co-chairs fib Commission 7 “Sustainability” and actively contributes to multiple fib and ACHE task groups. Co-founder of the UPC’s spin-off Smart Engineering.

Prof. Josè C. Matos

Assistant Professor, with habilitation, at Department of Civil Engineering of the School of Engineering of University of Minho. Member of ISISE- Institute of Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering, being the head of the Risk and Asset Management of Civil Infrastructures (RAmCI) cluster. He is also the current Director of the Mobility and Transportation HUB of Minho University (TMOB-HUB). Graduated in civil engineering in 2002, he obtained a master's degree in civil engineering structures in 2008 and a PhD in civil engineering in 2013, in the field of reliability and risk analysis of existing structures. Author or co-author of more than 300 publications in international conferences and journals, in the field of risk and resilience analysis, O&M of civil infrastructures, quality control procedures, among others. Jose C. Matos was also mentor/supervisor of many master, doctoral and post-doctoral students, and participated in more than twenty research projects, since 2013, attracting a fund larger than 8ME for the University of Minho. Particularly, important to enhance the coordination of COST Action TU1406, SIRMA INTERREG Atlantic, and more recently, NORISK Erasmus Mundus Joint Master. He is also member of several associations and policy makers, such as IABSE (currently Vice President, and Vice Chair of Commission 5), fib (Chair of Commission 8) and EuroStruct (ex-President and Founder).

Prof. Maria Pina Limongelli

Maria Pina Limongelli received her PhD in Seismic Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. She is currently Associate Professor of Structural and Seismic Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Her research interests cover Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of civil structures with specific focus on vibration-based and remote monitoring, value of Information, and SHM Standardization. She participates in leading roles in several committees and associations in the field of SHM and structural engineering. Among others she is Vice President of IABSE (International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering) and ISHMII (International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure), President of EVACES (Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures), JCSS reporter. She serves on the editorial board of several international peer reviewed journals including SHM Journal, Journal of Civil SHM, Engineering Structures, Bulleting of Earthquake Engineering. She coordinates or participates in several national and international funded projects on Structural Health Monitoring, digitalization, and resilience of bridge integrity management.

Jesper Pihl

Jesper Pihl has more than 15 years of experience within the field of suspension bridge design. He has worked in all aspects of suspension bridge design. He has been working on a large number of suspension bridges from conceptual design to detailed design to construction engineering. Jesper Pihl has among others worked on the detailed design of the Hålogaland Bridge in Norway, the Izmit Bay bridge in Turkey and the Canakkale Bridge in Turkey which is the world’s longest suspension bridge.

Eugen Brühwiler

Eugen Brühwiler holds a Master degree in civil engineering from ETH Zurich and a Doctoral degree from EPFL Lausanne. After a post-doctoral leave at the Colorado University in Boulder USA, he was bridge engineer for the Swiss Railways for four years.

From 1995 to 2023, Eugen Brühwiler was professor for maintenance and safety of existing structures at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Lausanne, Switzerland. His teaching and research activities included methods of bridge examination of structural and fatigue safety by means of data from monitoring as well as the use of Ultra-High Performance Fibre Reinforced Cementitious Composites (UHPFRC) for the rehabilitation and strengthening of existing RC structures.

Currently, he is consultant in many projects related to existing bridges and buildings, often of high cultural values and implementing the UHPFRC design and construction technology.