Dr Stergios A Mitoulis, Associate Professor, Dipl Eng, MSc, PhD, M.ASCE, EAEE, SECED, IABSE, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is the leader of the
infrastructuResilience initiative. Over the last ten years he has supervised and co-supervised seven doctoral and postdoctoral students. He has published extensively with a publication record exceeding 100 papers in leading scientific journals and international conferences. His expertise is the resilience-based design and assessment of infrastructure assets and networks and in particular bridges and transport infrastructure exposed to extreme natural and human-induced hazards, dynamic loads, hydraulic effects, creep, shrinkage and thermal effects. He is a member of the BSI B/525/10 CEN/TC250/HG-Bridges, the BSI Mirror Group of Eurocodes and UK delegate of the BSI (CEN/TC250/SC8 Work Group 6, Bridges) for the design and retrofit of bridges, the BSI committee B/525/8 and B/538/5 and the Workgroup 11 of the EAEE. He provides consulting and is member of the Working group of Highways England on “highway bridges exposed to hydraulic actions”, which aims at updating the DMRB documents on bridge scour. SM was and still is the Supervisor and co-supervisor of European projects, the last commenced in 2019, while has been the Principal Investigator (PI) of two KTP (Innovate UK) projects and a proof-of-concept project with Network Rail-UK on the monitoring of environmental hazards on infrastructure. SM has worked as Co-PI and researcher for another 11 research projects, relevant to bridge and networks resilience. He has editorial and reviewing responsibilities in reputed journals (more than 30). SM has served as evaluator for EU proposals and research grants within the UK (EPSRC), Canada and Latvia. He is an active consultant for industries in the UK and Belgium.
Dr Sotirios Argyroudis, is Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow, at the Dpt of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Surrey, and Senior Teaching/Research Staff at the Dpt of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University. Dr Argyroudis is civil engineer and geologist. He has 17 years of research experience in the field of infrastructure and geotechnical engineering, with focus on the risk and vulnerability analysis of infrastructure assets and networks exposed to diverse hazards (flood/scour, earthquake, landslides, tsunamis, ground movements). He has authored and co-authored over 100 reports and papers in scientific journals, conference proceedings and book chapters and participated in 16 research projects. He is a member of the Working Group 13 of the EAEE on assessment, design and resilience of industrial facilities and vice-chair of the IABSE Task Group on design requirements for infrastructure resilience.