**About the Editors**

**An´ıbal Maury-Ram´ırez** is the current Dean of the Engineering Faculty of Universidad El Bosque (Bogota, Colombia). He is a civil engineer from Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla, ´ Colombia), where he worked his thesis on the "Development of a Neural-Fuzzy Model to Estimate the In-Let Flows to Waste Treatment Plants". In recognition of his academic performance he received the ALFA Scholarship on Materials Science from the European Union. This time, working at Tampere University (Tampere, Finland), he researched the "TiO2 Impregnation of Concrete and Plaster Surfaces". Based on the obtained results, he developed his doctorate on "Cementitious Materials with Air-Purifying and Self-Cleaning Properties Using Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysis" at Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium). Afterwards, with the aim of developing urban infrastructure with air-purifying and self-cleaning properties, he conducted a post-doctorate at the Hong Kong Polytechnique University (Hong Kong, China). Today, Dr. Maury Ram´ırez is an associate researcher (Colciencias), the author of more than 15 high-impact articles, 50 articles in the proceedings of international conferences as well as several books. In addition, he has been acknowledged as an Editorial Board Member and Guest Editor of Coatings (MDPI, Switzerland), a Member of the American Concrete Institute, a Senior Member of the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM), and a Member of the Hong Kong Concrete Institute. His main scientific contributions lies in the development of sustainable building materials, particularly of green walls and roofs, photocatalytic materials, nanomaterials, and sustainable concrete (i.e., supplementary cementitious materials, recycled aggregates, permeable concrete). Finally, he has been involved in the design of sustainable buildings and communities. He was a Professor at Universidad del Atlantico (Barranquilla, Colombia), a Director of Post-Graduate ´ Studies on Civil Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali (Cali, Colombia) and the Dean of the Engineering Faculty at Universidad de La Salle (Bogota, Colombia). ´

**In ˆes Flores-Colen** is an Associate Professor of the Construction Section, at the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources, Instituto Superior Tecnico, ´ University of Lisbon, and a research member at the research unit CERIS (also vice-president since January 2019). She is a civil engineer (1996), with an MSc (2002) and PhD in Civil Engineering (2009). She has been published in the field of construction, civil engineering and coatings: 2 books; 7 book chapters (3 national and 4 international); over 50 papers in international journals; 60 reports (technical-scientific dissemination and institutional consultancy); and 35 international congress papers. Her supervision activities include 2 post-doctorate researchers (1 finished); 9 PhD students (1 finished); and 80 Masters students. She is the referee of 20 international journals. She participates (ed) in eight competitively financed research programs (1 international and ongoing—CCS-CCU—PPI/APM/2019/1/00042/U/00001), two of which as a Principal Investigator (one national and ongoing - WGB Shield PTDC/ECI-EGC/30681/2017; Nanorender—PTDC/ECM/118262/2010) and one as the responsible of the subcontracted IST team in a P2020 project (PEP -POCI-01-0247-FEDER-017417). She is a member of CIB W70 and W86 commissions (in this commission, she has been the secretary since June 2019). Her Scopus h-index is 17. Her research interests are coatings; innovative and sustainable solutions; performance; durability; pathology and in situ testing; maintenance and rehabilitation; thermal retrofitting (mortars and ETICS); and aerogel-based renders. She is the first author of a national patent PT (108864B) published in July 2019 related to the development of an aerogel-based thermal render.

**Hideyuki Kanematsu** is a professor of materials science and engineering at the National Institute of Technology at Suzuka College in Japan. His areas of interest include biofilm engineering, surface engineering, corrosion and STEM education (active learning by e-learning). He holds a B.Eng. (1981), a M.Eng (1983) and a Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering (1989), all from Nagoya University. He is an active member, board member, and editorial member of ASM International, the National Association for Surface Fishing, USA (NASF), the Institute of Metal Finishing, UK (IMF), as well as of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, USA (TMS), American Chemical Society (ACS), Electrochemical Society (ECS), the Japan Institute of Metals (JIM) and the Iron & Steel Institute of Japan (ISIJ), among others.
