Elisa Bertolesi Editor

Thainswemong Choudhury currently works as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, at SRM University-AP, India. He completed his masters and Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Guwahati. His research areas broadly cover the assessment and retrofitting of masonry wall components and buildings using surface mounted steel bands. He also has extensive experience using real time experimental and full-scale wall and building models and numerical simulation of unstrengthened and strengthened masonry buildings using modified discretization techniques. He is a member of the Institute of Engineers (IEI), India. Raviteja KVNS is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, SRM University AP, India. He has a doctorate in Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering from IIT Hyderabad. His research interests mainly focus on the expansion of municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills using retention systems, the design of geotechnical engineering systems using reliability and probabilistic frameworks and analyzing the heterogeneity and spatial variation in design parameters. He also works towards improving the design aspects of anchor trenches to avoid pullout failures in geomembranes. He is a certified Chartered Engineer (IEI) and life member of Indian Geotechnical Society and Institute of Engineers India. Dr. Raviteja is a reviewer for several international journals such as the Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste, ASCE, the Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering and Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Springer. He has published more than 25 papers in various international journals, book chapters and international/national conferences. Lakhveer Singh is a member of faculty in the Department of Environment Science, at SRM-University Amaravati, AP. Prior to joining SRM-University he worked as an associate professor at the University of Malaysia in Pahang, and as a postdoctoral researcher at Oregon State University, USA. His major areas of research are in energy production, bio-electrochemical systems, wastewater treatment, and nanomaterial synthesis for sustainable applications. He has three patents to his credit, has edited 15 books and has published over 80 scientific papers, and 15 book chapters. He serves as an editorial board member for the Journal of Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (Springer I.F 4.90). Elisa Bertolesi currently works as a lecturer in Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Brunel University London (UK). She obtained her PhD (with Honours) from the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy. Her research activities include structural monitoring by means of optical sensors and full-scale experimental testing and advanced numerical modelling of masonry and steel structures and structures subjected to extreme events. She has published more than 35 papers in high-impact journals. In addition, she collaborates with the editorial board of the ASCE - Journal of Composites for Construction, Scientific Reports (Springer Nature) and the International Journal of Masonry Research and Innovation. The most important recognition of her scientific achievements was her recent appointment as Managing Editor of the prestigious first-quartile JCR-indexed Journal Construction and Building Materials.