Biography
JOHN ERMOPOULOS is author of many publications in international Journals and Conferences with a lot of references, and author of about fifteen technical books. He participated in many international Conferences, Seminars, Projects, Workshops and Scientific meetings.He is the visiting professor in University of Colorado at Denver, USA, and Steel Construction Institute, Ascot, UK. He was invited lecturer in many countries (USA, UK, Taiwan, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, Cyprus, Poland, Norway etc). He received DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA in “Ljuben Karavelov-VSU†Civil Engineering High School, SOFIA. He is the member in various scientific Committees and Societies and also reviewer for scientific papers in many international Journals.
Research Interest
Stability of Structures, Analysis and Behaviour of Tapered Members, Semi-rigid Beam-to-Column Connections and Column Bases under cyclic loading etc.
Biography
Fábio Duarte is urban planner, having worked as the head-consultant for the transportation and urban mobility plan of Curitiba, Brazil, among other projects. Professor of urban management at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana, in Curitiba, Dr. Duarte has been visiting professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Yokohama National University in Japan, and visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S. Currently, Dr. Duarte is research associate at Harvard Graduate School of Design, and consultant for the World Bank.In 2005 he received the Faculty Enrichment Award from the Government of Canada.
Research Interest
Urban Management,sustainable urban mobility
Biography
Dr.Nicola Pugno is the Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the University of Trento (Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering).He is also the Founder of the Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Nanomechanics “Giuseppe Maria Pugno†at Politecnico and the Laboratory of Bio-Inspired & Graphene Nanomechanics at the University of Trento.Dr. Pugno,is a member of the scientific and technical committe of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). He has recived several awards like, ERC Starting (Consolidator) Grant 2011 BISHNAM on “Bio-inspired hierarchical super nanomaterialsâ€;ERC Proof of Concept 2013-1 REPLICA2 on “Large-area replication of biological anti-adhesive nanosurfacesâ€; ERC Proof of Concept 2013-2 KNOTOUGH on “Super-tough knotted fibresâ€. He is also associated with several journals. Dr. Pugno is the editor in chief of Frontiers in Materials - Mechanics of Materials, Bio-Inspired Materials, Academic Editor of PLoS ONE and Editorial Board Member in Biological Physics of Scientific Report. In addition, he is the Editorial Board member for 44 Int. Journals.
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