Dr. Ivano Benedetti is Associate Professor of Aerospace Structures in the Department of Engineering of the University of Palermo (Italy). In 2019 he has been Invited Foreign Professor at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Rouen Normandie, France. Between 2015 and 2016 he has been Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of Mechanical Enginering of the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern Univeristy, Evanston, Illinois, USA. Between 2011 and 2013 he has been Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the Department of Aeronautics of Imperial College London, UK. He obtained a PhD in Aerospace Engineering in 2008 from the University of Pisa, Italy. Has authored overall more than 110 scientific papers, in leading international peer reviewed journals, book chapters and national and international conference proceedings. He is member of the Editorial Board of: Journal of Multiscale Modelling; MDPI/Modelling; Mathematical Problems in Engineering; European Journal of Computational Mechanics. Since 2013, he is member of: International Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Damage and Fracture Mechanics; Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Conference on Boundary Element and Meshless techniques. He serves as referee for several international journals.