Professor of structural engineering at the University of Ottawa. His area of expertise includes multi-scale understanding of how complete structural systems function, and how complete buildings respond to the effects of windstorms, ground shaking during earthquakes and other actions like impacts and blasts. He is a member of the National Building Code Standing Committee on Structural Design, Vice Chair of the CSA O86 Technical Committee on Engineering Design in Wood, Member of the CSA s850 Technical Committee on Blast Resistant Buildings, and board member and treasurer of Canadian Association for Earthquake Engineering (CAEE).

Researcher at the Institute of Bioeconomy (formerly IVALSA) at the National Research Council of Italy and expert in the field of earthquake engineering applied to timber structures. He has been currently leading the working group on the accidental load situations within the European COST Action CA20139 for the holistic design of taller timber buildings. As expert member of the Italian Committee for timber structures, Dr. Casagrande participated at the revision of the timber chapter of Eurocode 8 and at the plenary Committees for the revision process of Eurocode 5.

Matteo Andreottola is the manager of Rothoschool and an engineer for Rothoblaas. He worked in Ireland as a structural engineer for IJM timber frame engineering. He came back to Italy after this working experience abroad, to work as a structural engineer for Xlam Dolomiti. He participated in the structural design of big projects in Australia, like Grocon, Northumberland Street and Ballarat GovHub. Currently he works in Rothoblaas as the manager of Rothoschool, organizing courses, webinars, events, seminars and formations around the world, where he participates as a speaker, managing the organization as well.

Research Engineer at the University of Ottawa, her expertise focuses on the structural dynamics and vibration behavior of advanced timber systems. Her research specifically addresses the serviceability and experimental analysis of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) floors, including the influence of intermediate supports and panel connections. She is actively involved in embodied carbon feasibility studies for large-scale civil engineering projects and the development of sustainable building envelopes. Her work includes extensive numerical and experimental studies on structural vibration parameters and finite element modeling (FEA) for timber and concrete structures. She is a member of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) and contributes to the technical advancement of the North American timber industry through laboratory testing and engineering education.

Professor for Timber Structures at the Institute of Structural Engineering at ETH Zurich, his expertise is in timber construction and fire safety engineering. He is a member of the Swiss Society of Civil Engineers and Architects (SIA) and president of the Swiss Code Committee for Timber Structures. He is vice-chairman of TC250 SC5 (Eurocode 5, Timber Structures), chairman of TC250 SC5 WG4 (Eurocode 5, Timber Structures, Working Group Fire) and member of TC250 HGF (Horizontal Group Fire). He is member of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) and the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). He is member of Lignum and president of the Swiss Wood Innovation Network (S-WIN).

Paolo Grossi is a product engineer (PE) of the technical department of Rothoblaas. He worked previously as a former structural designer for Rubner Holzbau, one of the major Italian construction companies, producing and designing glulam and CLT structures. He studied civil engineering at the university of Trento where he obtained his Phd on timber structural design.

He carried out a post-doc on the weathering process of bio-based material at CNR-IVALSA (Italian National Research Council), an Institute for the development of wood and tree species