Yury Villagran-Zaccardi is a researcher at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium. He specializes in the durability and sustainability of cement-based materials, including recycled concrete aggregates. He received his PhD from the National University of Technology, Argentina. He worked as an associate professor at the National University of Technology, Argentina and as a researcher at LEMIT, Argentina and the Magnel-Vandepitte Laboratory for Structural Engineering and Construction Materials, Ghent University, Belgium.