Anna PANDOLFI Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Alessandro VENEZIANI Department of Mathematics, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Emory University, USA Jay HUMPHREY School of Engineering & Applied Science, Yale University, USA Vikram DESHPANDE Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK Wolfgang A. WALL Technische Universität München, Germany Nanshu LU University of Texas at Austin, USA Allison OKAMURA Stanford University, US