My name is Isabella Vasilopoulou and I am a Civil Engineer with extensive professional background and experience in the field of the analysis and design of structures. During my professional career, emphasis has been placed on infrastructure projects, mainly focusing on the design of bridges in seismic regions, even under adverse soil conditions, such as landslides or liquefiable soil. For several years I have been working as Head of the Structural Department ODOTECHNIKI Ltd, located in Athens, Greece, having the overall responsibility for the design and management of the projects, training, guiding and supervising engineers and CAD technicians.

I also have a PhD in the field of Nonlinear Dynamics of cable nets. My research activity focuses on Nonlinear dynamic response and design of cable nets subjected to dynamic loads, such as the wind, considering geometrical non-linearities and investigating nonlinear resonant phenomena.

During my PhD candidacy, I participated in the preparation of class notes and teaching of the compulsory courses "Steel structures I" and "Steel structures II" at the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. Until today, I continue to participate in the teaching of the postgraduate course "Design of cable and membrane structures" at the same School of Civil Engineering.

I will never forget how difficult my first steps were in the Civil Engineering profession, when all I knew based on my studies never seemed enough. I will always be grateful to my mentors for showing me the way to think as an engineer and become the engineer that I am. Perhaps this is the reason of my passion to pass on my knowledge to young engineers, students or colleagues, mentor them, share my experience with them, see them become independent and brilliant engineers and feel proud of them.