Vincenzo Minutolo graduated in Civil Engineering in 1987 from University of Naples Federico II and gained a PhD in Structural Engineering in 1993. He was Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Second University of Naples from October 1996 and Associate Professor of Structural Mechanics in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Campania L. Vanvitelli from 2005 to now.Teaching activity includes rational and structural mechanics (undergraduate), computational mechanics, and instability and plasticity of structures (master's level). Dr Minutolo's research includes mechanics of solids and structural mechanics; integral equations for isotropic and anisotropic and heterogeneous solids; formulation and implementation of computer programs for boundary and domain integral equations for heterogeneous and anisotropic elasticity; limit analysis and shakedown of structures; offshore pipelines and underground pipe interaction with slopes in landslides; identification by inverse methods and monitoring with optical fiber sensors; buckling and post-buckling; computational biomechanics and trabecular bone; and metamaterials and lattice structures. He is author or co-author of over 100 scientific papers in internationally recognized journals. Moreover, he is a member of the scientific committee of several international conferences. He has written numerous computer programs for analyzing solids and structures and has been PI on several funded research projects.