Dr. Daniel Aldrich is Dean’s Professor of Resilience, Director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program, and Co-Director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University, USA. He studies how communities recover from disasters and writes about resilience, social response, and disaster policy. 

Email: d.aldrich@northeastern.edu

Dr. Denise D P Thompson is the Director of the MPA in Inspection and Oversight and is an associate professor in the Department of Public Management, John Jay College, City University of New York. She is a development studies scholar who has a Ph.D. in Public Administration. She has researched and published on disaster risk management, governance, and public policy issues related to disaster risk reduction issues affecting small island developing states (SIDS).

Email: dthompson@jjay.cuny.edu

Dr. Zhao-Dong Xu is Professor and Director of the China–Pakistan Belt and Road Joint Laboratory on Smart Disaster Prevention of Major Infrastructures at Southeast University, Nanjing, China. He researches smart disaster prevention and infrastructure resilience. 

Email: zhdxu@163.com

Dr. Humberto Varum is Professor at the University of Porto, Portugal, and serves on the ECCE Executive Board. His work focuses on seismic assessment, repair and strengthening of structures, and heritage and earthen architecture. 

Email: hvarum@fe.up.pt

Dr. Panagiotis Asteris is Professor and Head of the Computational Mechanics Laboratory at the School of Pedagogical & Technological Education (ASPETE), Athens, Greece. He works on structural engineering, computational methods, and the behavior of masonry and other materials. 

Email: asteris@aspete.gr

Dr. Michalis Fragiadakis is Professor, Director of the Laboratory for Earthquake Engineering, and Head of the Structures Department at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. He studies earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, and risk assessment. 

Email: mfrag@mail.ntua.gr

Dr. Khan Shahzada is Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Peshawar, and head of the UET sub-center for the China–Pakistan Belt and Road Joint Laboratory on Smart Disaster Prevention. He leads research and teaching on civil engineering and disaster resilience. 

Email: khanshahzada@uetpeshawar.edu.pk

Dr. Muhammad Faisal Javed is Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering department at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute (GIKI), Topi, Pakistan. His research covers machine learning for resilient structures, construction materials, and structural optimization. 

Email: arbabfaisal@giki.edu.pk

Dr. Azam Khan is Professor in the Structural Engineering department at the NUST Institute of Civil Engineering (NICE), National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. He works on steel and offshore structures, computational structural analysis, resilient infrastructure, and seismic performance of structures. He is active in research on structural behaviour under dynamic and seismic loads. 

Email: azam.khan@nice.nust.edu.pk

Umar Ahmad Noor is a graduate student member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and a Research Associate at the Earthquake Engineering Center, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Peshawar, Pakistan. He is a graduate student in Structural Engineering at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, and has earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering from COMSATS University Islamabad, where he was awarded a Gold Medal. His research focuses on structural and earthquake engineering, computational structural mechanics, seismic performance, and the use of physics-informed deep learning, computer vision, and other advanced computational tools to enhance structural resilience. 

Emails: unoor.ms24nice@student.nust.edu.pk , uahmadnoor247@gmail.com