Zuzana Dimitrovová proposed and coordinates the postgraduation in Rehabilitation of Railway Infrastructures, which has already completed four successful editions. She obtained her degree in Civil Engineering (1983, Ing., with distinction) and in Mathematics (1990, Mgr.) from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University and from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Prague, Czechia, respectively. She completed her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering(1997) at the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon. From 1985 until now, she has been involved in teaching at four different institutions. She has authored or co authored three thesis, one textbook and more than one hundred scientific publications in international journals, books, and conference proceedings (h-index in Scopus: 14), which together with reports and other publications completes almost two hundred works; is an associate editor of the Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies and a member of the editorial board of three other international journals; was the chairman of three international conferences, with another in preparation; delivered several keynote lectures and has been invited to integrate numerous scientific and steering committees. She often participated in the evaluation of European projects, supervised one Ph.D. and several MSc theses, which together with scientific supervisions totalizes more than thirty supervisions. Her current research interests lie in structures subjected to moving loads from an analytical perspective, but also including practical applications in railway dynamics, with a particular interest in railway maintenance and rehabilitation.

Eduardo Fortunato obtained his degree in Civil Engineering (1991), MSc in Structures of Civil Engineering (1994), MSc in Business Administration (2009), and PhD (2005) and Habilitation in Civil Engineering (2016). He is Vice-President of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society (2020-2024) and Member of the TC202 – Transportation Geotechnics of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). He participated and coordinated almost forty relevant research national and international projects. He supervised or co-supervised four Ph.D. dissertations and more than thirty MSc theses; he is the author or co-author of three theses, fourteen technical books or chapters, almost fifty research papers peer-reviewed indexed journals and near to one hundred and fifty conference papers; his h-index in Scopus is 20. He has also authored or co-authored almost two hundred and fifty Technical reports, twelve Technical specifications and received four Scientific and technical awards. He participated almost three hundred times in technical and scientific events and delivered almost sixty keynote lectures. He also integrated eight times the jury of PhD thesis and almost fifty times of MSc thesis. His current research interests are: Transportation infrastructures (design, build, renewal, characterization, monitoring, modelling and analysis of the behaviour); Physical and numerical modelling of the mechanical behaviour of geomaterials; Laboratory and in situ characterization of geomaterials and Asset management.