Anna M. Rakoczy is an assistant professor in the Engineering Department at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. She received a Master’s Degree in 2008 from the University of Technology in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and a Ph.D. degree in 2012 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S.A. She has over ten years of research and academic experience related to the engineering of railway bridges. She held a Principal Investigator Position at Transportation Technology Center, Inc., U.S.A, for over seven years (2013-2020) where she participated in more than 10 research teams implementing projects financed through AAR, FTA, and FRA. In six of these projects, she was either the project leader or the main task leader. She is the author of numerous research papers and reports, and she regularly presents her original research at international scientific conferences. Her research focuses on the extension of the service life of railway bridges using reliability-based criteria. She serves as a Member of Committee 15 - Steel Structures for the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-way Association (AREMA) and the National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board (TRB) Steel Bridges Committee.