Panagiotis G. Asteris is a Professor, the Head of the Civil Engineering Department, and the Director of Computational Mechanics at the School of Pedagogical & Technological Education, Athens, Greece. He received BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, computational mechanics, soft computing, applied and computational mathematics, and masonry materials and structures. Professor Asteris is the author/editor of three books in computational structural engineering. He is also the editor-in-chief of the journals Metaheuristic Computing and Applications and the Open Construction and Building Technology Journal. He has also authored more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS). Prof. Asteris has recently been included on a list of the world's top 2% of scientists for 2019, 2020, and 2021.