**About the Editor**

**Magdalena Rucka** is a graduate of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Gdansk University of Technology (2002), and is currently the head of the Department of Mechanics ´ of Materials and Structures. She received her Ph.D. in 2005, her habilitation in 2011 and the title of professor in 2020. She has five patents and over 65 articles indexed in the database Web of Science. These publications have >750 citations in Web of Science. She serves as the editorial board member of *Materials*. She is a specialist in structural dynamics and non-destructive testing. Her research interests centre on damage detection and imaging, mainly with the use of ultrasonic and electromagnetic wave propagation methods.
