Dr. Luigi Di Sarno received a Laurea (with Laude) in Structural Engineering from the University of Naples, Federico II, an MSc in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (2000) and Structural Steel Design (2001) from Imperial College, London, and a PhD on Structural Engineering from the University of Salerno, Italy, jointly with Imperial College, London, UK in 2001. He was Post-Doc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, where he was Visiting Professor between 2004 and 2014. He has been awarded Best Thesis on the Seismic Assessment of RC Structures (Italian Society for Reinforced and Precast Concrete (AICAP), 1999), Honorary Member Staff (at the College of Engineering, University of Bristol, UK, 2011), and 2019 Excellent Research Award for Civil Engineering (School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, 2019). He is also a member of several International Scientific Committees. He has collaborations with several institutions worldwide, e.g., UIUC (USA), UC at Los Angeles (UCLA-USA), Bristol (UK), Imperial College of London (UK), University College of London (UK), University of Toronto, (Canada), NTUA, Athens (Greece), KOERI, University of Bogazici (Turkey) just to name a few. His research interests include Soil Structure Interaction Effects, Seismic performance of non-structural components, Seismic Assessment, and Retrofitting of Existing Structures