Alkiviadis S. Paipetis is a Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Ioannina (Greece). He graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Department at the National Technical University of Athens in 1991. He received his MSc in Materials Research with Distinction from Queen Mary College, University of London. From 2007, he served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, at the University of Ioannina, and was elected the rank of Professor in April 2013. He is a mechanical engineer with research activity in the field of mechanical behavior and non destructive evaluation of composite materials and structures. His research in the area of advanced composite materials focuses on novel techniques of structural health monitoring, smart and multifunctional materials and structures, damage mechanics, experimental micromechanics as well as advanced monitoring and testing techniques. He is particularly involved in the field of multi-scale hierarchical composite reinforcement and hybrid nanomodified advanced composites, to exploit multiple functionalities together with structural enhancement. He was awarded the ESCM Award for his paper in ECCM11, by the European Society for Composite Materials, in June 2008, a Scholarship from the “Karatheodoris Foundation», University of Patras, 2002-2003, and the Distinction in Materials Research by the University of London, 1992.