**Piotr Smarzewski**

Piotr Smarzewski is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Military University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland. He obtained his M.Sc. degree, with a specialty in Building and Engineering Structures, from the Lublin University of Technology (LUT) in 1997. Following two years of structural engineering practice, from 1997 to 1999, he has devoted his career to teaching and research since 1999. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering in 2008 from the LUT, and then his postdoctoral degree (habilitation) in Engineering and Technical Sciences in the discipline of Civil Engineering and Transport from the Poznan University of Technology in 2021. Piotr Smarzewski's research studies have led to more than 80 publications in technical journals and conference proceedings. He is the author or co-author of two textbooks, twelve chapters in handbooks, and editor or co-editor of two books. He is an Editorial Board Member of two journals indexed in the JCR list, Guest Co-Editor of two Special Issues in the JCR journals, and Review Board Member of the MDPI and Frontiers Publishing Houses.

## **Adam Stolarski**

Adam Stolarski is a full professor of Civil Engineering at Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, where he received his Ph.D. in 1983, D.Sc. in 1990, and Professor title in 2005. He is the author and co-author of over 160 scientific publications and 15 monographic studies, including "Nonlinear analysis of impulse-loaded reinforced concrete bar structures", "Modeling of the static and dynamic behavior of inelastic reinforced concrete deep beams". He is the co-author of two patents concerning "The system of flat meshes with a truss system of bars for concrete reinforcement" and "Spatial reinforcement of concrete" granted by Polish Patent Office. He was the supervisor of 7 doctoral dissertations. In the years 2005–2013, he was the deputy dean, and in the years 2016–2019, the dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy at Military University of Technology.
