28 September 2025
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Board Members of Infrastructures

Infrastructures (ISSN: 2412-3811) is pleased to add the following 30 researchers to the 2025 Early Career Editorial Board and congratulate them on becoming part of the Infrastructures community!

Name: Dr. Zhen Liu
Affiliation: Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong 999077, China
Research interests: innovative and sustainable infrastructure materials and technologies; non-destructive testing of civil infrastructure (GPR, Ultrasonic, Surface Waves); computer vision-based civil infrastructure inspection and assessment; structural health monitoring and machine learning prediction of infrastructure resilience; advanced digital twin applications in transportation infrastructure

Name: Dr. Ehsan Harirchian
Affiliation: Institute of Structural Mechanics (ISM), Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Marienstraße 15, 99423 Weimar, Germany
Research interests: application of soft computing techniques in building damage assessment; sustainable building and earthquake engineering

Name: Dr. William Fedrigo
Affiliation: Postgraduate Program in Civil Engineering: Civil Construction and Infrastructure, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Prédio 43.816, Bairro Agronomia, Porto Alegre 91501-970, Brazil
Research interests: civil engineering; geotechnics; pavement; soil mechanics; infrastructures; materials

Name: Dr. Manuel De Rose
Affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria, Arcavacata Campus, 87036 Rende, Italy
Research interests: road materials; surface texture; bituminous pavements; biomaterials; sustainable materials; life cycle assessment

Name: Dr. Elisabete Rodrigues Teixeira
Affiliation: 1. ARISE, ISISE, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal; 2. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal
Research interests: infrastructures; sustainability; nature-based solutions; construction materials; circular economy

Name: Dr. Marco Bonopera
Affiliation: Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Via San Lorenzo ad Septimum, 81031 Aversa, CE, Italy
Research interests: behavior of reinforced prestressed concrete and steel structures; bridge engineering; engineering materials; machine learning; finite element method; structural health assessment and monitoring

Name: Dr. Vanni Nicoletti
Affiliation: Department of Construction, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Polytechnic University of Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy
Research interests: structural engineering; earthquake engineering; structural dynamics; non-structural elements, structural health monitoring; operational modal analysis; bridges; buildings

Name: Dr. Junfei Zhang
Affiliation: Department of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, 5340 Xiping Road, Beichen District, Tianjin 300401, China
Research interests:
low-carbon building materials

Name: Dr. Alberto Miguel Bizarro Martins
Affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Rua Luís Reis Santos, 3030-788 Coimbra, Portugal
Research interests: structural engineering; structural optimization; computational mechanics; cable-supported bridges; bridge design; buildings design; concrete structures

Name: Dr. Yanni Bouras
Affiliation: College of Sport, Health and Engineering, Victoria University, 70/104 Ballarat Rd, Footscray, VIC 3011, Australia
Research interests: concrete creep; high-strength steel; machine learning; numerical modelling; structural stability; sustainable materials

Name: Dr. Nicholas Fiorentini
Affiliation: Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, The University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino 1, 56122 Pisa, Italy
Research interests: road safety; accident prevention; highway safety manual; road design; road monitoring; road maintenance; machine learning; statistical analysis; econometric models; AI in infrastructure engineering; GIS; Infrastructure BIM; cost-benefit analyses; economic and financial evaluation of public investments

Name: Dr. Xiaodong Song
Affiliation: School of Transportation, Southeast University, No.2 Southeast University Road, Nanjing 211189, China
Research interests: vibration and noise radiation from bridge and tunnel structures; intelligent operation and maintenance of bridge structures; BIM technology for bridge engineering

Name: Dr. Fangyu Liu
Affiliation: Department of Geotechnical Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Research interests: artificial intelligence (AI)-driven smart, sustainable, and resilient Infrastructure

Name: Dr. Adriana C. Trias Blanco
Affiliation: Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Rowan University; 201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
Research interests: bridge engineering; SHM; bridge dynamics; NDE

Name: Dr. Shreya Vemuganti
Affiliation: School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, University of Oklahoma, 202 W. Boyd, Room 424, Norman, OK 73026, USA
Research interests: composites; 3D printing; nano structures; concrete; retrofit

Name: Dr. Yu Zhou
Affiliation: School of Civil Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, No. 292 Ziyun Road, Hefei 230601, China
Research interests: structural health monitoring & prognostics; rapid evaluation of bridge bearing capacity; bridge seismic performance evaluation; risk assessment of urban lifelines; heritage bridge preventive protection

Name: Dr. Zia ur Rehman
Affiliation: College of Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Derby, Derby DE22 3AW, UK
Research interests: civil engineering; geotechnical engineering; transportation geotechnics; mechanics of materials; resilient infrastructure; structural engineering; machine learning; construction materials; sustainability; recycling

Name: Dr. Pier Francesco Giordano
Affiliation: Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering (ABC), Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
Research interests: structural health monitoring; value of information; InSAR; bridge management systems

Name: Dr. Armando La Scala
Affiliation: Department of Architecture, Construction and Design, Polytechnic University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
Research interests: bridge engineering; fire engineering; structural health monitoring

Name: Dr. Yajian Wang
Affiliation: School of Engineering and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Xueyuan Road N. 29. Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China
Research interests: intelligent simulation and modeling; application of big data; artificial intelligence; digital twins in underground infrastructures

Name: Dr. Pengfei He
Affiliation: School of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Langongping Road No. 287, Lanzhou 730050, China
Research interests:
frozen soil engineering; geosynthetic engineering

Name: Dr. Zhen Li
Affiliation: School of Aerospace and Civil Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
Research interests: high performance; multi-functional nano-composite cement-based materials

Name: Dr. Carlo Pettorruso
Affiliation: Politecnico di Milano, ABC Department—Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
Research interests: existing bridge; non-destructive tests; seismic devices; seismic behaviors of structures; reinforced concrete structure; seismic performance; post-tensioning concrete structures

Name: Dr. Ben Li
Affiliation: School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, Foshan University, No. 33, Guangyun Road, Shishan Town, Nanhai District, Foshan 528000, China
Research interests: nano-modification design of cement-based materials in coastal service environment; numerical simulation of crystal/chemical product evolution process in cement-based materials; multi-scale mechanical analysis of damage and fracture process of cement-based materials

Name: Dr. Zhihai Zhang
Affiliation: School of Highway, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710064, China
Research interests: railway track

Name: Dr. Jinhuan Shan
Affiliation: School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Chang’an University, Middle Section of Nan’er Huan Road, Xi'an 710064, China
Research interests: intelligent infrastructure; artificial intelligence in civil engineering; UAV-based intelligent road inspection; structural health monitoring; remote sensing and smart monitoring

Name: Dr. Chenzhu Wang
Affiliation: Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
Research interests: transportation safety; intelligent transportation systems; autonomous vehicle; human behaviors

Name: Dr. Hemei Sun
Affiliation: College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University, No. 3688, Nanhai Avenue, Nanshan District, Shenzhen 518060, China
Research interests: multiscale molecular dynamics simulation of porous clay materials; carbon dioxide sequestration and underground hydrogen storage; anti-seepage for pollution from disposal of industrial solid waste; optimization structure design for the foundation of solar power plants

Name: Dr. Minghong Qiu
Affiliation: Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Research interests: concrete structures; ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC); bridge engineering; sustainable infrastructures

Name: Dr. Yu Shen
Affiliation: College of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, No. 288 Liuhe Road, Hangzhou 310023, China
Research interests: earthquake engineering; infrastructural risk and resilience; seismic analysis and testing

 

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