Prof. Haim Abramovich Obtained his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion, in 1975, 1979 and 1983, respectively. He has been with the Technion since 1987, and currently he is the head of the Aerospace Structures Laboratory. He spent three years with the Israeli industry and between 1996-1998 he was Guest Professor at ETH Zurich Institut fur Leichtbau und Seilbahntechnik, Switzerland. He has published more than 103 papers in well-known international journals on these quoted subjects. He is the author of 10 patents on piezoelectric harvesting devices. He is also the author of two new books with another one in progress.

Dr. Rodolfo Bontempo obtained his Ph.D. degree (2014) in Engineering of Mechanical Systems, from Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Italy. Since Sep 2017, he is Researcher RTD-A, in the Department of Industrial Engineering, at University of Naples Federico II, Italy. His research interests include wind energy, turbomachinery, propulsion systems, and development of numerical methods for flow computations through open and ducted rotors (wind/marine turbines, aeronautical/marine propellers). Dr. Bontempo is/was Chairman of the 12th European Turbomachinery Conference (April 2017), Stockholm, Sweden.

Fiorenzo A. Fazzolari is a Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Liverpool. He has been a Research Associate in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge (Jan 2016 - July 2017) and a Research Fellow in the Aeronautics, Astronautics and Computational Engineering (AACE) academic unit at the University of Southampton (Jan 2014 - Dec 2015). He successfully completed his MPhil and PhD, funded by the American Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), at City University London in 2011 and 2013, respectively. He has authored more than 60 publications, including international journal and conference papers, reports, books and book chapters.

Stelios K. Georgantzinos received his Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics Diploma (2005) and PHD degree (2010) from the University of Patras. He maintains research interests in the areas of computational engineering technology and its application in design of advanced materials and structures. He has more than 100 publications in referred journals, Conference papers, Book chapters, Technical Reports, Textbooks and Laboratory Manuals. He is a member of the Greek Association of Computational Mechanics (GR.A.C.M.), and Technical Chamber of Greece.

Shuang Li received his B.S.E and M.S.E and Ph.D. degree in spacecraft design in 2001, 2003 and 2007 from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) respectively. Currently, he works as a professor at the department of astronautics engineering, college of astronautics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA). He has been the author of over 100 articles in reputable journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include spacecraft dynamics and control, deep space exploration, spacecraft autonomous guidance navigation and control (GNC) and astrodynamics. He has undertaken and is conducting up to 20 projects sponsored from the China government and the aerospace enterprises in the fields above.

Dr. Vladimir Pletser obtained a Master of Engineering in Mechanics in 1979 and a Master of Sciences in Geophysics in 1980. Later, he became a Ph.D. in Astrophysics in 1990 from the University Of Louvain, Belgium. He is visiting Professor in 20 universities around Europe, USA, Canada, Africa, Israel, and China. Dr. Pletser has around 600 publications, including 16 books or chapter in books, 60 articles in refereed journals and 132 articles in international conferences proceedings. He is member of the International Astronautical Academy and of several other academies and scientific organizations.

Dr. Jules Simo obtained his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Currently, Dr. Simo is lecturing in Aerospace Engineering, in the Department of Aerospace Engineering (School of Engineering) at University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. His research interests mainly lie in the subject areas of Orbital mechanics, space mission analysis and design, spacecraft attitude dynamics and control, space situational awareness, optimization methods, dynamical systems theory, optimal control, adaptive and nonlinear control, guidance, navigation & control, small satellites, spacecraft formation flying, computational intelligence, communications networks, computer vision, etc. Dr. Simo has authored more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, conferences and technical reports.

Dr. Amedeo Amoresano is currently an Associate Professor at Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II. His academic background consists of (a) Degree in Mechanical Engineering (five years) from Naples University “Federico II” in 1991 (b) received a PhD in Engineer of the Thermomechanical Systems from Naples University “Federico II” in 1994. He has 47 referred congress paper, and 34 peer reviewed articles publications to his credit.

Dr. Alberto Di Matteo currently works at the Department of Civil, Environmental, Aerospace and Material Engineering at the University of Palermo (Italy). He is member of the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA) and the European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH). His research interests, in the area of the Structural mechanics and dynamics, include topics such as Stochastic Mechanics, Fractional calculus and its applications, Nonlinear and experimental dynamics and Structural control. He is co-author of numerous publications on international journals and conference proceedings, member of the Organization Committee of several International Conferences and he is reviewer of many international journals.

Dr. Ph Reynier is one of the founders of Ingénierie et Systèmes Avancés, company that he has been managing since 2006. He received his Master in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bordeaux in 1990, and in Fluid Mechanics (M.Sc.) in 1991 from the Institut National Polytechnique of Toulouse, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics in 1995. Since 1995 he has worked successively with CNES, DLR and ESA/ESTEC as research fellow then research engineer in propulsion, aerothermodynamics and aerodynamics. He has worked on European projects such as Ariane 5, Huygens, ExoMars, IRDT, and ATV.

Ding Wang received the M.S. degree from the Zhengzhou Information Science and Technology Institute in 2007. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Zhengzhou Information Science and Technology Institute in 2011. Now, he was an Associate Professor in the National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technological Research Center in China. His research activities are focused on signal processing and source location and tracking.