Historic Masonry Structures

Vasilis Sarhosis is an Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering at the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University. Previously, he was a Research Associate at the School of Engineering at Cardiff University and completed his PhD in structural masonry at the University of Leeds. He holds both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Leeds, and worked as a Civil Engineer in UK. Currently, he is actively undertaking research in structural masonry and his research interest falls within increasing the resilience of existing masonry infrastructure. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Masonry Research and Innovation, editor of the book "Computational Modelling of Masonry Structures using the Discrete Element Method", Executive Committee Member of the International Committee of Monuments and Site (ICOMOSS, UK) and has published more than 50 scientific journals and conference proceedings.
Gabriele Milani is associate professor of "Scienza delle Costruzioni" (Strength of Materials) at the Technical University of Milan, Italy. So far, he has authored more than 120 papers on international journals and edited a book. He is the second author in Scopus under the keyword "masonry". He has been awarded a Telford Premium by ICE in 2012, a most cited author 2005-2008 by Computers & Structures, a Bathe award in 2014. He is EIC of a journal dedicated to masonry (International Journal of Masonry Research and Innovation) and co-editor of a generalist civil engineering journal (Open Civil Engineering Journal). He is in the editorial board of several renewed international journals, including Computers & Structures and Structural Engineering and Mechanics.
Katrin Beyer is assistant professor of structural engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. She is the head of the Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics Laboratory. Her research interests include the seismic response of unreinforced masonry structures and reinforced concrete wall structures. Katrin is a member of the working group masonry that advices on the revision of the masonry chapters in Eurocode 8 Part 1 and 3. She is further on the editorial board of the Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering and the Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthaukae Engineering.


Els Verstrynge is an assistant professor at the Civil Engineering Department at KU Leuven, and guest professor at the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation in Leuven, Belgium. She holds a Master of Applied Sciences and Engineering: Architecture, and a PhD on "Long-term behavior of monumental masonry constructions: modelling and probabilistic evaluation". She has had positions as postdoctoral researcher at the Building Materials and Building Technology Division at the Department of Civil Engineering of KU Leuven and she lectured at the Faculty of Architecture. Her research focus is "Multi-scale analysis of degradation in building materials and existing/historic structures". She has spent research stays at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands (2009), the University of Minho in Portugal (2012) and Stanford University, USA (2016). Els Verstrynge is active in several international networks for advanced non-destructive testing and assessment of heritage structures, such as Rilem, Icomos/Iscarsah, WTA int.. She is editor of 8 books of international conference proceedings, and provided more than 70 papers for journals and scientific conferences.