Zuzana Dimitrovová obtained her degree in Civil Engineering (Ing., with distinction) in 1983 and in Mathematics (Mgr.) in 1990 from the Czech Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering, and from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Prague, Czechia, respectively. She completed her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1997 at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. She has authored and co-authored one textbook and more than one hundred scientific publications in international journals, books, and conference proceedings. Together with reports and other publications, this completes almost two hundred works. She edited five conference proceedings and twelve special issues in international journals. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies and a member of the editorial board of three other international journals. She has participated in various national and international research projects, in two of which she was the principal investigator. She has been the chairperson of three international conferences, with another in preparation. She has delivered six keynote lectures at international conferences and several other invited talks. She has been invited to integrate several scientific and steering committees of international conferences, participated eight times in European project evaluations, supervised one Ph.D. and several MSc theses, which together with scientific supervisions totalizes more than thirty supervisions and co-supervisions. Her current research interests lie in structures subjected to moving loads, especially from an analytical point of view, but also including practical numerical applications in railway dynamics, with a particular interest in railway maintenance and rehabilitation. She has been involved in teaching at four different institutions from 1985 to the present day. She proposed and coordinates a postgraduate course in Rehabilitation of Railway Infrastructures, which already completed four successful editions.

Eduardo Fortunato is Coordinating Researcher at the National Civil Engineering Laboratory (LNEC), Member of the Board of Directors of LNEC, Visiting full professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Vice-President of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society (2020-2024) and Member of TC202 – Transportation Geotechnics of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE).
Main areas of research: Transport infrastructures (design, construction, renovation, characterisation, monitoring, modelling and behaviour analysis);
Physical and numerical modelling of the mechanical behaviour of geomaterials;
Laboratory and in situ characterisation of geomaterials;
Asset management / Relevant research projects (37) / PhD supervisor or co-supervisor (4); Master’s supervisor (33) / Theses (3); Technical books or chapters (14); Research articles in indexed peer-reviewed journals (46); Conference papers (147); Lectures (58); Technical reports (245); Technical specifications (12) / Technical-scientific awards (4) / Participation in 8 doctoral thesis juries and 49 master’s thesis juries / Participation in technical-scientific events (over 290) / Scopus h-index: 20
Academic degrees: Qualification in Civil Engineering (2016); PhD (2005); Master’s in Civil Engineering Structures (1994); Master’s in Business Management (2009);
Degree in Civil Engineering (1991)