**About the Editors**

### **Markus Oeser**

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Markus Oeser studied Civil Engineering at the TU Dresden with a focus on structural engineering. In 2004, he completed his doctorate in Dresden on the topic "Numerical simulation of the non-linear behavior of multi-layered flexible transport pathways". This was followed in 2010 by his habilitation on the topic "Nonlinear numerical simulation models for traffic pathways with regard to mechanical, thermal and hydraulic effects". In 2006, Markus Oeser was a Research Member of the Technical University of Delft University, the Netherlands, and from 2007 to 2011 he was a University Lecturer at the Institute of Geotechnics, Road Construction and Traffic Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. In 2011, he became Head of the Chair of Highway Engineering and Director of the Institute of Highway Engineering, and in 2016, Dean at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Rheinisch-Westfalische ¨ Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH). He took up a visiting professorship at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), in Harbin, Heilongjang, China in 2015, which ended as per contract in 2022. In 2021, he was appointed to the professorship of Pavement Engineering and Construction, TU Dresden. He has been President of the Federal Highway Research Institute since November 2021.

#### **Michael Wistuba**

Michael P. Wistuba has a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Vienna University of Technology, 2002. Since 2008, he has been the head chair of the Braunschweig Pavement Engineering Centre in the Department of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences at Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Germany. He is the author or co-author of more than 55 research reports, ¨ 60 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals and 120 articles published in conference proceedings. His publications address the sustainability of road infrastructures, and cover the fundamental mechanisms that control the behaviour and durability of asphalt materials and pavement systems, the technical testing to address performance properties, the composition of asphalt mixtures considering various additives and re-using reclaimed asphalt, the design of highway and airport pavements, and the development of road management concepts. He has acted in consulting projects in pavement engineering including federal highways in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. In 2017, he was awarded the Prize of the Construction Industry Association of Lower-Saxony and Bremen for his significant contributions to technology transfer from science to application in the pavement industry sector. He has been a Convenor (2018-2020), and is an Expert (2016-2018 and 2020-2022) of RILEM Cluster F on bituminous materials and polymers. He is steering group member of the European Asphalt Technology Association (EATA), scientific board member of Deutsches Asphaltinstitut (DAI), member of the German Road and Transportation Research Association (FGSV), and scientific board member of the Swiss Expert Association for Road and Transport Engineering (VSS). From the year 2009, he is the Editorial Board Member of the Journal on Road Materials and Pavement Design (RMPD). He has supervised more than 20 PhD students, and 150 MS.

#### **Pengfei Liu**

Dr. Pengfei Liu is the Junior Professor (W1) in Modeling and Design of Functionalized Pavement Materials at the Institute of Highway Engineering (ISAC), RWTH Aachen University. He is also the general manager in Sino-European Research Center for Advanced Transportation Infrastructure Technology GmbH. He received his bachelor degree from University of Science and Technology Be(USTB) in 2008. Afterward, Dr. Liu received his master and doctoral degree from RWTH Aachen University in 2012 and 2017, respectively. His main research areas can be summarized as numerical methods applied in asphalt pavement, multiscale modelling and the characterization of asphalt mixtures. He makes fundamental contributions to the application and realization of national and international scientific research projects in ISAC and has published more than 100 SCI papers as well as 4 books. He also serves as an academic/topic editor for 7 technical journals and as a reviewer for 63 SCI journals. Dr. Liu has been recognized with the 2017 Excellent Self-Funded Student Scholarship of the Ministry of Education P. R. China. In 2017 and 2019, he won the RWTH Aachen –Tsinghua Junior Research Fellowships and RWTH Aachen –Tsinghua Senior Research Fellowships, respectively. Additionally, he received the Outstanding Associate Member Award from the Academy of Pavement Science and Engineering (APSE) in 2022.

## **Di Wang**

Dr. Wang is a Postdoc researcher at the Department of Civil Engineering at Aalto University, Finland. Before he joined Aalto University, he worked as a post-doc researcher at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, and he obtained the doctoral degree in civil engineering at the same university. In 2022, he gained the national scientific qualification to function as Associate Professor at Italian Universities. He has more than eight years of experience in the areas of asphalt pavement, particularly to the characterization and modeling of asphalt binders at low temperatures as well as the incorporation of circular and sustainable materials in asphalt roadways. He has participated in several European, Nordic, German, Finnish, and RILEM projects in the past six years. He also has rich experience in teaching and supervising. He is currently serving in several sector associations, such as the CEN Task Group, RILEM, NRS, COTA and IACIP. As a result, he has published more than 60 contributions in scientific journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports with multiple collaborators in the area of infrastructure and waste management. He is very active in professional activities, including conference organization member, scientific committee, and session chair in more than 10 international conferences world widely in the areas of pavement and waste management. Currently, he is serving as editorial board members and scientific reviewers in more than 50 scientific journals.
