Luciani Somensi Lorenzi is a Civil Engineer with M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering and a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. She has expertise in developing, improving, and applying experimental methods to assess the performance of buildings and construction systems, including structural performance, durability, fire safety, and thermal performance. She is the Coordinator of the Building Performance Institute at UFRGS (IDUFRGS) and a researcher at NORIE (Building Innovation Research Unit) and LEME (Structural Models and Testing Laboratory). She is a specialist in assessing innovative construction systems within the Brazilian National Technical Assessment System for Innovative Products and Conventional Systems (SiNAT), serving as a full member in technical assessments of such systems. Her research focuses on testing methods, performance assessment, durability, building diagnostics, and the technical assessment of construction products and systems. She is also a named inventor in a patent application for equipment developed to conduct durability testing of construction systems.