**About the Editors**

#### **Zdenek Hadas**

Zdenek Hadas attained his M.Sc. degree at the Brno University of Technology in 2003. He defended his PhD thesis in vibration energy harvesting in 2007. Since 2015, he has been an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic. He is active in the field of dynamic mechanical and electro-mechanical systems, multidisciplinary simulation, metamaterials and development of kinetic-energy-harvesting devices and smart sensing systems. He has authored more than 120 scientific publications and 4 patents and actively participated in 6 EU FP and many national research projects.

#### **Saˇsa Zelenika**

Sasa Zelenika attained his M.Sc. degree at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, and the D.Sc. degree ˇ at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. He was Head of Mechanical Engineering at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. Since 2004, he has been a faculty member of the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Engineering (since 2015, full professor with tenure), where he was Dean's Assistant, Department Head and is Laboratory Head. From 2012 to 2014, he was Assistant and then Deputy Minister at the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports. Currently, he is Vice-rector for Strategic Projects and Deputy Head of the Centre for Micro- and Nanoscience and Technologies at the University of Rijeka. Since 2016, he has been a Member of the Croatian Academy of Technical Sciences. His research interests encompass precision engineering and microsystems technologies. He has authored more than 170 scientific and professional publications and actively participated in 8 EU FP and several international and national scientific projects.

#### **Vikram Pakrashi**

Vikram Pakrashi (BEng, PhD, C.ENG MIEI) is an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland. He is the Director of the UCD Centre for Mechanics. Vikram is active in the field of dynamical systems, where he assimilates fundamental theory, sensors and analysis for applications in a range of engineering sectors, typically focusing on the topic of infrastructure systems. Vikram is the President of Eurostruct (European Association on Quality Control of Bridges and Structures) and a member of the Engineering and Computer Sciences Multidisciplinary Committee of the Royal Irish Academy. Vikram runs a happy and inquisitive research group and has published more than 120 journal papers around his topic of research. He works closely with industries and has been one of the champions of using energy harvesting techniques for Structural Health Monitoring.
