Dr.-Ing. Charalampos Baniotopoulos is currently a Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. He is also the Chair of Sustainable Energy Systems. His academic activity concerns lecturing in graduate, post-graduate, and PhD curricula on steel and aluminium structures, wind energy structures, and sustainable design topics. He performs research on the same topics including data-driven and model-driven applications of AI to Civil Engineering projects, as well as administration at the department, faculty, or university level and academic or research-oriented national and international organisations. His previous activity in consultancy as a Structural Civil Engineer concerned steel, aluminium, and glass structures projects including wind energy structures, sustainable design, and LC analyses.