Dr. Carlo G. Lai is Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Pavia, Italy. He is also the advisor at EUCENTRE of the Department of Risk Scenarios and affiliate faculty at the Institute of Advanced Studies of Pavia (UME School – IUSS). Dr. Lai holds a MSCE from Politecnico di Torino and a MSCE, a MSESM and a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta (USA). His primary interests are in earthquake geotechnics, theoretical modeling of seismic wave propagation in geomaterials and engineering seismology. He is the author/co-author of more than 200 scientific publications including two books. In 2003, he was awarded the Bishop Research Medal for the best research paper in Geotechnical Engineering published in 2002 by the British Institution of Civil Engineers.