Dr. Luigi Di Sarno received: - Laurea (with Laude) in Structural Engineering at the University of Naples, Federico II. - MSc in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (2000) and Structural Steel Design (2001) at Imperial College, London - PhD on Structural Engineering from the University of Salerno, Italy, jointly with Imperial College, London, UK in 2001. He was Post-Doc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, where he was Visiting Professor between 2004 and 2014. Dr. Di Sarno has collaborations with several institutions world-wide, e.g. UIUC (USA), UC at Los Angeles (UCLA-USA), Bristol (UK), Imperial College of London (UK), University College of London (UK), University of Toronto, (Canada), NTUA, Athens (Greece), KOERI, University of Bogazici (Turkey) just to name a few. Dr. Di Sarno is a member several International Scientific Committees. Dr. Di Sarno has authored more than 200 research publications, including 65 refereed journal papers, many conference papers, research reports, book chapters and field investigation reports. He has co-authored with Professor A.S. Elnashai the book: Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering, Wiley & Sons.