Dr. Pedro Alves Costa currently works as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP); Director of the Master’s course in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering; and Visiting Cheney Fellow at U. Leeds. He received his Master’s in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering from FEUP (2005) and PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Porto (2011). His main research interests: Advanced models of analysis of dynamic train–infrastructure interactions; Models for predicting noise and vibrations induced by railway traffic; experimental evaluation of vibrations; advanced algorithms for analyzing the condition of the railway infrastructure; soil-structure dynamic interaction.