Prof. Dr. -Ing. habil. Theodoros Triantafyllidis, ex Director of Institute for Soil Mechanics and Rock Mechanics Karlsruhe, Germany. Prof. Triantafyllidis has extensive experience in Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering, Special Underground Constructions, Soil-Structure dynamics, and Environmental Engineering. He is member of many Committees, Working Groups and Professional societies. He was invited speaker in prestigious Universities and Institutes, and he has received many honorships and prizes for his contribution to engineering technology and science. He has published more than 250 articles in book chapters, referee journals and proceedings in international journals. He has already gained experience from several projects in the field of onshore and offshore Wind Turbine technology.

Prof. Demosthenes Polyzos is Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, Division of Applied Mechanics and Biomechanics of the University of Patras in Greece. His research activities include wave propagation phenomena in materials and structures, computational mechanics, Boundary Element Method, Meshless Methods, modeling in non-destructive testing, homogenization techniques, mechanics of materials and biomaterials with microstructural effects and computational methods in engineering and bioengineering. He is organizer of many National and International Conferences and Principal Investigator in many National and EU projects. His contribution includes 100 articles in International Refereed Journals, 21 articles in books and 110 articles in proceedings of International and National Conferences. He is recipient of P.S. Theocharis award by the Academy of Athens and S.N. Atluri medal in recognition of his “outstanding contributions to boundary element methods in general”. He was invited speaker in many Universities, Conferences and Institutes. The period 2014-2020, he was Vice Rector of Research and Development of the University of Patras.