Milos B. Djukic is a full professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia. His research interests include hydrogen embrittlement, hydrogen-materials interactions, corrosion and materials science, materials degradation, and the mechanical behavior of materials. He is the head of the Hydrogen-Materials Interaction Laboratory at the University of Belgrade.

Prof. Djukic is a member of the team for preparation of the Hydrogen Strategy of the Republic of Serbia and an Executive Committee Member of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS). He also serves as the chair of ESIS Technical Committee TC21 on Hydrogen Embrittlement and Transport. He is an assistant subject editor for the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy by Elsevier, and a member of the editorial board of eighteen international journals, including Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A and Engineering Failure Analysis.

With over 25 years of teaching and research experience, Dr. Djukic has published 5 books, 10 book chapters, 1 patent, 3 technical solutions, more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers in international journals, and 120 conference articles. He has contributed to more than 200 industrial studies, reviews, reports, and expertise. Prof. Djukic scientific research focuses on the fundamental understanding of hydrogen embrittlement mechanisms in metallic materials and hydrogen-materials interactions. He proposed the novel hydrogen embrittlement model in metallic materials based on the synergy of mechanisms. This so-called HELP+HEDE model has been widely accepted and is highly cited with more than 700 citations.

He is included in the 2023 list of the 2% most cited researchers worldwide, published by Stanford University and curated by Elsevier using Scopus data. According to Scopus, he has 1510 citations with an h-index of 15 and has five papers related to hydrogen embrittlement topic cited more than 100 times. According to Google Scholar, he has 2908 citations. He was a keynote/invited speaker at 20 international conferences. He was a mentor, opponent, and member of defense or pre-examination committees for fourteen Ph.D. theses, related mostly to hydrogen embrittlement topics in Belgium, Austria, Finland, France, Israel, Brazil, Australia, and Serbia. Dr. Djukic is an external peer reviewer for scientific projects of five European scientific government agencies in Belgium, Switzerland, Poland, Norway, the Netherlands, and South Africa. He is also a research projects peer reviewer for the European Research Council (ERC).

Since fall 2022, Filippo Berto is Professor of mechanics of Materials at Sapienza University of Rome. Previously he has been international chair in fracture mechanics, fatigue, and structural integrity at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology of Trondheim, Norway, since beginning of 2016. He was professor of machine design at the University of Padua, Italy, between 2006 and 2015. He is chairman of the technical committee ESIS TC15 on Structural Integrity of additive manufactured components of European Structural Integrity Society. In 2020 he has been one of the founders of TC18 of ESIS dedicated to the structural integrity of welded structures. 

Dorin Radu is Associate Professor and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transilvania University of Brașov. He holds lectures in Static and Stability of the Structures, Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity and Building Information Modelling. His research interest is in structural integrity, assessment and optimization of existing structural elements, new materials for sustainable constructions, neural networks applied in civil engineering. He is the author of several books, conference papers and large number of articles published in high ranked journals.

Francesco Iacoviello is full professor of Metallurgy at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio. He was President of the Italian Group of Fracture - IGF (2009-2021), President of the European Structural integrity Society – ESIS (2018-2022), Vice-President of the International Congress on Fracture (2017- 2023).

He is Director of the International Congress on Fracture, Editor in Chief of Fracture and Structural Integrity and of Procedia Structural Integrity and Deputy Rector for Services and Infrastructures at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio. His main research fields concern the analysis of fatigue crack propagation resistance and damaging micromechanisms of stainless steels, ductile cast irons, Al and Ti alloys, shape memory alloys, additively manufactured alloys and Zn coated steels, the investigation of stainless steels hydrogen embrittlement mechanisms and the analysis of stainless steels localized corrosion micromechanisms. 

Bojan Medjo is currently Associate Professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Department for General Technical Sciences. His research activities are in the fields of mechanics of materials, fracture mechanics, local approach to fracture and integrity assessment of inhomogeneous structures, including the application of the finite element method in these fields. He is author or co-author of two course books and numerous papers published in international and national scientific journals and conference proceedings, as well as reviewer for several international scientific journals.