Hernán Pinto received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Cantabria. He obtained postdoctoral experience at the Structural Engineering Mechanics Group, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. He is Construction Engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso. Since 2011, he has been an Associate Professor at the Construction Engineering School, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Since 2020, he has served as Head of the Construction Engineering School. He has participated in several research projects related to the structural mechanics of materials, resilience infrastructures, modeling, and optimization, among others. He has more than 30 published articles, and has participated in several international conferences in his field.