Liberato Ferrara is associate professor of Structural Analysis and Design at Politecnioco di Milano, Italy and holds the Italian National qualification to full professor. He has been Fulbright visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Cement Based Materials, Northwestern University, IL, USA and visiting professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, PRC. He has coordinated bilateral scientific cooperation projects between Italy and South Korea, India, Israel and Germany. He is involved in technology transfer with industrial partners and has served as consultant for public bodies and private engineering and construction companies. He is coordinator of the H2020 project ReSHEALience (GA 760824): Rethinking coastal defence and green energy service infrastructures through enhanced durability high-performance fiber reinforced cement based materials, deputy coordinator of the MSCA ITN SMARTINCS (GA 86006): Self-healing multifunctional advanced repair technologies in cementitious systems and is involved in the RFCS project MINRESCUE (GA 899518): From mining waste to valuable resource: new concepts for a circular economy. He is chair of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) TC 544-Fiber Reinforced Concrete. Author of more than 70 peer-reviewed journal papers, 3 book chapters and more than 200 conference papers, he has given seminar talks in about 40 universities worldwid