**About the Editors**

#### **Edoardo Alessio Piana**

Edoardo Alessio Piana is an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (University of Brescia). He studied Mechanical Engineering at University of Brescia. He received his Ph.D. degree in Energetics at Politecnico of Milan. During her research stays, he visited the Mercus Wallenberg Laboratory (KTH – Stockholm) and Belgian the Laboratory for Acoustics (KU Leuven). He founded the Laboratory for Acoustics (University of Brescia). Since 2005 he has been active in different fields of acoustics in general and in particular: acoustic modelling and characterisation of materials, noise from high-voltage power lines and electrical infrastructures, noise propagation in ducts, design of innovative instrumentation for acoustic measurements.

#### **Paolo Bonfiglio**

Paolo Bonfiglio is vice president of Materiacustica srl (spin-off company of the University of Ferrara). He got the Degree in Physics at the University of Catania in 2003 and in 2007 he received the Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering and the European Doctorate in Sound and Vibration Studies (EDSVS) at the University of Ferrara. Part of the Ph.D. has been carried out at The Marcus Wallenberg Laboratory in Stockholm (Sweden). From 2007 to 2017 has been assistant professor at the University of Ferrara. His main research activities have been devoted to vibro-acoustics characterization of porous materials and experimental technique for their determination, numerical modelling for the study of acoustical radiation and noise and vibration control, active noise control in industrial and automotive fields.

#### **Monika Rycht ´arikov ´a**

Monika Rychtarikov ´ a is a full professor at the Faculty of Architecture (KU Leuven). She studied ´ architecture and building constructions at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at STU Bratislava, where she graduated, received her Ph.D. degree and become a full professor. During her research stays, she has visited TU Wien, TU Delft, RWTH Aachen, TU Zagreb and Belgian Building Research Institute. For more than 10 years she has been working in the Laboratory for Acoustics (KU Leuven) on different topics related to architectural acoustics. Since 2002 she has been active in different fields of building physics in general and building and room acoustics, environmental and virtual acoustics and perception of sound in particular. During the years 2011-2017 she has been a chair of Technical committee of Room and Building Acoustics of European Acoustic Association. In 2016 she has received an award "Female Scientist of the year 2015". Since 2017 she has been the president of Slovak Acoustic Society.
