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Aalto University, Finland

Prof. Stenberg obtained his Master of Science in 1980, Licentiate of Technology 1981 and Doctor of Technology 1984. He came the Professor of Mathematics in the Tampere University of Technology in 1999 and the Professor of Applied Mathematics in TKK–Aalto in 2001–2021. He has supervised 11 Ph.D. and 5 Licentiate theses. In his early career, Rolf Stenberg has visited for example, as a Research engineer, Philips Research and Development Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands between 1978–1979. He has given 51 invited talks at international conferences and 48 talks at foreign universities. He has also awarded The Lorenz Lindelöf Price in Mathematics by the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters 2019. Now he has Emeritus contract at the Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis in Aalto University.

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Fredrik Larsson is Professor in Structural Mechanics at the Department of Industrial and Material Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He received his doctorate in Solid Mechanics at Chalmers University of Technology in 2003. His research interests concern numerical efficiency for finite element simulations, in particular for multiscale problems in solid mechanics. In 2021 and 2023 he has co-chaired the ECCOMAS Thematic conference on Adaptive Modeling and Simulation (ADMOS).

The University of Edinburgh, UK

Dr Dias obtained his bachelor’s and MSc in theoretical physics at the State University of São Paulo, Brazil. In 2012, he obtained his PhD degree from the University of Massachusetts, in the USA, where he researched on the mechanics of origami structures and growth mechanisms. Dr Dias has worked as a researcher on a broad range of topics in structural engineering and applied mathematics at Brown University School of Engineering (USA), Aalto University (Finland), and the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Sweden). Before joining the University of Edinburgh, Dr Dias was an Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at Aarhus University in Denmark, where he led his research group 'Mechanical Metamaterials and Soft Matter’. Dr Dias currently is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Structural Mechancis at the University of Edinburgh, leading the “Mechanics and Geometry of Advanced Structures Laboratory” (MEGA SLab) in the Institute for Infrastructure and Environment at the School of Engineering. Additionally, he is a holder of the UKRI EPSRC Open Fellowship, focusing his research on Mechanical Metamaterials.

University of Padova, Italy

Giovanni Meneghetti received his PhD in 1998 at the University of Padova with a final dissertation entitled Fatigue design of welded structures by means of local approaches. Giovanni is Professor of Machine Design at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Padova since October 2017 and Expert Member of Commission XIII (Fatigue Behaviour of Welded Components and Structures of the International Institute of Welding (IIW) since 2008. In 2003 he received an award from the Editorial Board of the Journal Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures for the best published paper entitled ‘Fracture Mechanics and Notch Sensitivity’ and in 2024 from the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS) for his strong contribution to the fatigue design of welded structures. Giovanni’s research fields deal with the development of local approaches for structural durability analysis of welded components and structures, fatigue design of structures in metallic materials, experimental analysis of strains, in-field load data acquisition, development of design methodologies for structural integrity of conventional and additive manufacturing processes. Giovanni has authored and co-authored over 140 technical papers published in peer-reviewed international journals.