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Prof. Alessandro Baratta graduated in Civil Engineering in 1969. Since 1980 he is Full Professor of "Science of Constructions" of the University of Naples "Federico II". Head of the Dept. of Scienza delle Costruzioni from 1997 to 2003. Member of the Administrative Board of the University of Naples from 2001 to 2003. Past vice-President of the European Association for Structural Control (EACS) and past member of the Council of the British Masonry Society. Adviser of the Italian National Researches Council (CNR) for Technical Standards. Author or co-author of more than 300 scientific publications and of 3 scientific and didactic books. The research activity is articulated on the following main themes: Probabilistic Theory of Structural Mechanics, Structural Safety, Limit Analysis, Theory of Structures, Aseismic Engineering, Solids and Structures made by No-Tension Material; Theory and Technique of Masonry Buildings, Seismic Risk Analysis, Active Control of Civil Engineering Structures. Author of more than 300 published papers, memoirs and interventions to meetings. He is co-author of a monograph book, "PROBABILISTIC METHODS IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING" (Chapman & Hall Editors, London, 1984, also translated in Russian) and of another book entitled ''SEISMIC RISK IN HISTORIC CENTRES'' (Ed. Del Sole, Napoli, 1996). Finally he has published a didactic book (in Italian) ''LEZIONI DI SCIENZA DELLE COSTRUZIONI'' Ed. Liguori, Napoli, 1996.
Dr. Bin Xu is currently the Minjiang Scholar Professor of Civil Engineering, a professorship appointed by Fujian Provincial Government, at Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China. He currently is the Director and Founder of the Key Laboratory for Intelligent Infrastructure and Monitoring (IIM) of Fujian Province, and the Director and Founder of the International Centre for Safety and Sustainability of Civil Engineering at Huaqiao University. Before joining Huaqiao University, he was a Lotus Scholar Professor of Civil Engineering (a professorship appointed by Fujian Provincial Government) at Hunan University from 2005 to 2016 and was also the associate dean of the College of Civil Engineering at Hunan University from 2010 to 2016. He was also the Director of the Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Damage Prognosis for Engineering Structures from 2015 to 2016 at Hunan University. He taught and carried out research at the Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University as a Curtis Visiting Professor appointed by Purdue University in 2014-2015 academic year. He had been invited and financially support by European Commission to work at Sapienza University of Roma in 2010 and hired by University of Western Australia as a Gledden Visiting Senior Fellow from 2007 to 2008. Before starting working in China in 2005, he worked at University of Missouri-Rolla in US as a Post-Doc from 2003 to 2005 and at Ibaraki University in Japan as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellow from 2001 to 2003. Dr. Xu has also proven exemplary record of teaching, research, service, leadership skills and administrative ability. Overall, he has published 148 peer-reviewed journal papers, 127 refereed conference papers and 7 edited books and proceedings. Most of his international papers are in SCI Q1 and Q2 journals and his current Google H-Index and H-10 Index is 25 and 51, respectively. He has been awarded 11 innovation patents in civil engineering and has made over 10 keynotes and invited presentations at international conferences. He serves various academic and extracurricular committees. He has organized several international workshops and conferences as chair or co-chair of organizing committee. He also serves on various academic societies as Editor-in-Chief, Executive Editor, Associate Editor, Guest Editor or editorial board member for international journals and professional committees as Standing Committee Member, Executive Member or Committee Members.
Prof. Pereira was born on 13 August, 1942 in Elvas, Portugal; received a doctoral degree in Hydrology from Zurich (1977) and a post-doctoral degree in irrigation and drainage from Lisbon (1980); was Professor since 1970 and Head since 1983. Agricultural Engineering, Technical University, Lisbon; He was Director General, Hydraulics and Agriculture Engineering, Ministry of Agriuculture 1977-1980; member of the Research Centre, Scientific Board and several specialised committees; responsible since 1985 for research coordination orientation in irrigation and drainage at National Institute of Agriculture Research, etc. He was Vice President of ICID from 1987-1990.
Professor Emeritus, Institute of Agronomy, University of Lisbon. Invited Professor at CIHEAM/IAM-Bari, Italy, University of Porto and University of Azores, Portugal. Research adviser at Universities in China and Brazil. Doctor honoris causa, University of Rousse, Bulgaria. Hon. President of CIGR, and Hon. Vice-President of the ICID. Member, Portuguese Academy of Engineering, the “Accademia dei Georgofili”, Italy, the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, the Académie d’Agriculture de France and the Int. Academy of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. Fellow, Portuguese Association of Engineers. Recipient of numerous awards conferred by ICID, CIGR and European Water Resources Association, various national and foreign institutions from Bulgaria, China, Egypt, Equator, India, Italy, Japan, Libia, Mexico, and USA. Consultant to FAO, UNDP and UNESCO.
Former leader of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Research Centre, and of the thematic area of Climate Change and Water Scarcity at LEAF, ISA-ULisboa. Former coordinator of research projects on irrigation water management on the North China Plain, the Yellow River Basin, the Aral Sea Basin and a network on Irrigation of Latin-American countries. Benchmark contributions/achievements refer to crop evapotranspiration (co-author of FAO56 Crop Evapotranspiration. Guidelines for Computing Crop Water Requirements), modelling the soil water balance (leader for developing of the ISAREG and SIMDualKc models) with applications to irrigation management in various countries, and water scarcity and droughts (author of Coping with Water Scarcity. Addressing the Challenges, a Springer book) and directing drought-related studies in various countries and regions. Author or co-author of a large number of papers in journals, book chapters, and conference speeches and papers. Editor/co-editor of several books and special issues of Journals, namely the special issue of Agric. Water Manage. on Updates and Advances to the FAO56 Crop Water Requirements Method,
Erich Bauer is a professor at the Institute of Applied Mechanics (IAM), Graz University of Technology, Austria. He completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. G. Gudehus and Prof. D. Kolymbas, and holds a habilitation in Mechanics. Before joining IAM, he worked in a consulting company on research projects in Europe and the United States using the New Austrian Tunneling Method (NATM). Dr. Bauer is a regular reviewer of papers for various international journals, a Ph.D. thesis examiner, a keynote speaker at a large number of international conferences, and a member of different editorial boards. His scientific work focuses on the mechanical properties of granular materials and their constitutive modeling, using classical and higher-order continuum descriptions. His main areas of research are continuum mechanics, experimental investigations, and the constitutive modeling of engineering materials including the long-term behavior of geotechnical structures like rockfill dams. His scientific results have been published in 158 papers and books and presented in 136 oral presentations. Dr. Bauer is the project leader of several national and international scientific-technical initiatives with universities in Europe and Asia. He is also visiting professor at Hohai University, China, and the founder of the international conference series on “Long-term Behaviour of Dams” (LTBD).
PhD/Prof, Named to World’s Top 2% Scientists 2022-2023 (Stanford University), he is the Distinguished Professor of Henan Province in China, and he is an Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He mainly focuses on the challenging area of geotechnical engineering, rock mechanics and numerical simulation analysis. His research projects have been supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (51774112; 51474188; 51074140; 51310105020), National Scholarship Fund of China [2023]-21, Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province, (232300421134), International Cooperation Project of Henan province (182102410060; 162102410027), China, etc. He was granted 2015 Endeavour Research Fellowship by the Australian Government, and he is the recipient of 11 state-level and province-level awards in China. He has published 190 SCI/EI papers and 13 books. He has been authorized 63 patents and 6 software of intellectual property rights in China.
Prof. Nourani currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Civil & Environmental Engineering and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Hydroinformatics, and AQUA, along with guest editorial roles for several other high-impact journals. He is the Founder and Director of the Excellence Center in Hydroinformatics of Iran and the Director of the Institute of Environment at the University of Tabriz. In 2023, he was ranked 9,035th among the world’s top 2% scientists, as reported by Stanford University, with a global position of 29th in Environmental Engineering (including Water Resources and Climatology) and 1st in Iran. According to ScholarGPS, he is in the top 0.05% of world scientists. His research interests span rainfall-runoff simulation, hydro-geological modeling, Artificial Intelligence applications in hydro-environmental engineering, hydroinformatics, and computational hydraulics. His scholarly contributions include: 300+ journal articles, predominantly in Q1 and Q2 journals, with approximately 50% as first or corresponding author. Three books and 21 book chapters, 200+ conference presentations, Eight international research projects
Prof.Dr Burak FELEKOĞLU, full Professor, Head of Department of Civil Enginnering, Dokuz Eylül University, Türkiye. He has published over 130+ papers, H-index: 31. He is also member of American Concrete Institute (2012-present), RILEM Membership (2011-present), Turkish Chambers of Civil Engineers Membership (2001-present). Honors & Awards: Aug 2013, FABED Outstanding Young Scientist Award.
