Emiliano Pereira (M’07) received the Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering from the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, in 2009. He was researcher at ARC Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control, University of Newcastle, Australia and at the Vibration Engineering Section in University of Exeter. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Polytechnic School of Engineering, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. His current research interests involve active and passive damping of vibrations in civil structures via inertial mass actuators.