prof. dr hab. inż. Marcin Kamiński
Lodz University of Technology
Prof. Marcin Kamiński has been employed as a full professor at the Department of Structural Mechanics of the Lodz University of Technology since 2015. Currently, he has been the Head of the Civil Engineering, Geodesy and Transport Discipline at the Faculty of Construction, Architecture and Environmental Engineering of the Lodz University of Technology since 2019. Previously, he worked at the Department of Materials Mechanics (1994). -2009), and was also the Head of the Department of Steel Structures in 2010-2013; then he joined the Department of Structural Mechanics, organizing and managing the Department of Structural Reliability.
His main area of interest is the Stochastic Finite Element Method (as well as other discrete stochastic numerical methods), numerical modeling of random composites taking into account the homogenization theory, determining the reliability of structures and their optimization, stochastic aging processes, and – most recently – probabilistic entropy and its application in engineering calculations (as part of the OPUS research project no. 2021/41/B/ST8/02432 financed by the National Science Center in Krakow).
Prof. Kamiński completed postdoctoral studies at Rice University in Houston, USA, and was a visiting professor at the Leibniz-Institute of Polymer Research in Dresden, Germany, and at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy. Prof. Kamiński was a winner of scholarships from the Foundation for Polish Science (in 1996 and 1999), and received the award. J. Argyris from ECCOMAS and Elsevier (2001), scholarship of prof. J.T. Oden at The University of Texas (Austin, TX, USA, 2004), as well as Polish decorations such as the Bronze Cross of Merit (1998), Silver Medal for Long-Term Service (2017), Medal of the National Education Commission (2022), and most recently the Award of the Minister of Education and Science (in 2023). Prof. Kamiński was included in the World’s Top 2% Scientists list prepared by Stanford University, CA, USA (as of 2021).
prof. dr hab. inż. Roman Lewandowski
Poznan University of Technology
Prof. Roman Lewandowski is currently Professor Emeritus of Mechanics of Structures. Previously, he was Full Professor of Dynamics of Structures at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Poznan University of Technology (since 1994). Prof. Lewandowski’s main and current research interests are: linear and non-linear vibrations of structures; computational mechanics; vibration reduction and especially dynamic analysis of structures with embedded dampers and damping layers. He has published over 120 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He is also the author of three books on linear and nonlinear dynamics of structures. In the past he has been involved in several research projects supported by the Polish government. He has received, among others, the Award of the Scientific Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1986) and the Award of the Ministry of National Education of the Second Degree (1990). He is a member of several national and international scientific societies and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Sound and Vibration.
Prof. Alba Sofi
Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria
Alba Sofi is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures at the University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria (Italy). In 2017, she got the National Scientific Qualification as a Full Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures. She received her Ph.D degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Palermo (Italy), in 2002. Then, she pursued research as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (2002-2004) at the University of Messina and as a Research Assistant (2004) at the University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria (Italy).
In 2004, she was appointed as a Visiting Scholar at Rice University (USA). Prof. Sofi held Visiting Fellow positions at Oxford University (2016-2019) and at the University of New South Wales in Australia (Aug-Nov 2017). She was a Visiting Professor at Guangzhou University (2018) and Xidian University (2019, 2021) in China.Prof. Sofi serves as an Associate Editor of the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems and of the ASME Open Journal of Engineering.
She is a member of several Editorial Boards including the International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, Advances in Engineering Software, and the Journal of Infrastructure Preservation and Resilience.Prof. Sofi received the Editor’s Award for the Best Paper published in 2020 in the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering. She co-chaired the 9th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing (REC 2021) and has served on the scientific committees of many international conferences.
She is a member both of the American Society of Civil Engineers (M.ASCE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (M.ASME), and of the Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences of the Bernoulli Society.
Prof. Sofi’s primary research interests focus on: stochastic dynamics; probabilistic and non-probabilistic approaches for uncertainty quantification with specific expertise in interval analysis; computational mechanics; bridge-vehicle dynamic interaction; cable dynamics; and non-local elasticity theory. She has published over 100 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. She has been involved in several research projects supported by MUR (the Italian Ministry of University and Research).
Dr. Eng. Marcos Valdebenito
Technische Universitat Dortmund
Marcos Valdebenito is chief engineer at the Chair for Reliability Engineering, TU Dortmund University, Germany.
In 2016, he received the prestigious K.J. Bathe Award for the best paper published in Computers & Structures in the years 2014 and 2015 by an author below the age of 40. In 2018, he was awarded a Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Humboldt Foundation.
His main research interest is the development of strategies for uncertainty quantification in
computational mechanics. Within this broad field, his particular research interests are reliability assessment by means of advanced simulation methods, stochastic dynamics, stochastic finite elements, reliability-based optimization and fuzzy
analysis.
