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. 

Member of the Committee on Mechanics and Civil Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences branch Wrocław, President of the Polish Group of Crack Mechanics (PGMP), President of the Wroclaw Branch of PTMTS (Polish Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics), Grzegorz Lesiuk, Ph.D., DSc.  professor of the WUST (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology), has been employed at the Wrocław University of Technology (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering) since 2009. He received his doctoral degree in technical sciences in 2013, and received his habilitation in 2020 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Wrocław University of Technology. His scientific activities are in the field of mechanics, fracture mechanics and fatigue of materials and structures, as well as new materials and modeling of their durability under cyclic and static loads. In this field, he has more than 120 scientific papers published in renowned national and international scientific and technical journals, as well as more than 70 conference papers and 1 patent. He is a member of the Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and ESIS (European Structural Integrity Society). As part of his teaching activities, he gives lectures and exercises in courses on mechanics, strength of materials, fracture mechanics for students of Wroclaw University of Technology. He is co-author of an academic mechanics coursebook and co-author of a monograph (Springer) on the problems of degradation of materials and structures. For years, he has cooperated extensively with foreign centers in Europe (mainly Porto, Coimbra-Portugal, Oviedo-Spain, Milan, Cassino, Bologna-Italy, Brno, Prague-Czech Republic, Lviv, Kiev-Ukraine, Chemintz, Kaiserslautern-Germany, Trondheim-Norway, Nove Mesto-Slovenia) and abroad (Brazil-São Paulo, Minas Gerais, China-Chengdu, USA-Michigan, Canada-Waterloo, Zabol-Iran, Boumerdes-Algeria). He is a co-organizer of many scientific events of international as well as national scope, i.e. XXICMFM (International Colloquium Mechanical Fatigue of Metals), XVIII KKMP (National Conference on Fracture Mechanics), 1st VCMF (Virtual Conference on Fatigue of Metals), 9th Symposium - Layered Structures, and the creator of a new initiative under ERASMUS BIP courses for summer and winter schools of fracture mechanics and fatigue of materials. He has been repeatedly awarded for his scientific activities: Admission as a member of the Academy of Young Scientists and Artists operating at the Mayor of the City of Wroclaw - nomination received from the Mayor of the City of Wroclaw (2018), Award of the Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology (2018, 2020), International ESIS Award - TC12 (Merit Award) 2019 and 2 international TOP 1% Reviewers (Publons&Web of Science) awards - 2019, Lierati Award (2019) - Emerald Journals Group, 2023 - ESIS Award of Merit - Robert Moskovic Award (Serbia, IV, 2023), - Faculty of Engineering Porto medal  University of Porto - 2023. In addition, in his career he has managed numerous projects of national as well as international scope funded by NCBiR, NCN, NAWA.