Dr. Babak Moaveni is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from University of California San Diego, M.S. in Earthquake Engineering and B.S in Civil Engineering both from Sharif University of Technology. His research interests include vibration-based structural health monitoring, system and damage identification of civil structures, experimental modal analysis, signal processing, finite element analysis and finite element model updating, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, uncertainty quantification, verification and validation of computational models. He is currently serving as the chair of Structural Health Monitoring and Control Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and as the associate editor for Structural Health Monitoring and Frontiers in Built Environment journals.

Dr. Pascal Nicolay was born in Metz, France, in 1977. He studied Physics, Innovation Sciences and Engineering. He got his PhD from the University of Lorraine in 2007, and his Habilitation from the University of Technology of Compiègne, in 2018. He has worked for several companies, including TDK-EPCOS (now QUALCOMM) and CTR (Carinthian Tech Research). He’s currently a Senior Researcher and R&D project manager at CTR, with a focus on the development of Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) sensors and RF filters, for various industrial and research applications. He is the co-author of more than 50 scientific papers and communications, in the field of SAW devices.

Dr. Michael Ortner studied theoretical physics at the Technical University of Vienna and subsequently did his PhD at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Innsbruck. In 2012 he started as a researcher at the Carinthian Tech Research Institute working on magnetics and magnetic sensor systems with focus on analytical approaches and numerical simulation.