Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Christian Grosse is a Geophysicist by training and earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the University of Stuttgart followed by his Habilitation in Materials Testing. After affiliations in Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Berkeley he returned to Stuttgart to become a Director at the Material Testing Institute. In 2010, he was offered the new Chair of Non-Destructive Testing at the Technical University of Munich. Since 2015, he is working part-time for the company WTM Engineers in Munich, where he is the scientific director of the division “Building Diagnostics”. His research interests include the application and development of non-destructive testing methods as well as structural health monitoring. Applications range from civil engineering, disaster mitigation, engineering geology and geophysics to constructions in aeronautics and automotive, biomedical engineering, and the preservation of heritage structures and art objects. He is a member of the ScanPyramids Team investigating the famous pyramids of Giza in Egypt. Prof. Grosse contributed to about 500 publications including more than 50 books.

John S. Popovics is a Professor, Associate Head, and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has also been recognized as a Caterpillar Faculty Scholar, a CEE Excellence Scholar, and a Grainger Education Innovation Fellow. He teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses on materials science and engineering, non-destructive evaluation, construction material corrosion and durability, concrete technology, wave propagation, and mathematics. His primary research interests are non-destructive evaluation, imaging and sensing to assess the condition of infrastructure materials and structures, material degradation mechanisms, and technical writing instruction. His research has been funded by competitive grants from a broad range of agencies including the National Science Foundation, The Department of Energy, The National Academies of Science and Engineering, The Federal Railroad Administration, and State Departments of Transportation of Illinois and California. His findings have been published in five chapters in books and over one-hundred articles in refereed technical journals. He received the NSF CAREER award in 1999, the ASNT Fellowship Award in 2012, and the ASNT Faculty Award in 2014. He serves as Chair of several technical committees related to nondestructive testing and structural health monitoring, and he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), and he is a registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Martin Schickert earned a Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Berlin, Germany, and studied Electrical Engineering at Rice University, Houston, Texas, on a DAAD scholarship. He worked as research assistant at the Institute for High Frequency Technology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Since 1993 he has been employed at the Materialforschungs- und -prüfanstalt Weimar (MFPA Weimar), Germany, where he is currently deputy department head. His main research interest is non-destructive testing (NDT) with a focus on tomographic imaging with elastic (ultrasound) and electromagnetic (radar) waves in heterogeneous media, as well as the integration and visualisation of NDT results in digital building models. He serves as chairman of the "Ultrasonic Testing"/"Non-destructive Testing in Civil Engineering" subcommittee of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung (DGZfP), and he is member of several other DGZfP committees.