Dr. Theodoros Loutas is an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering of the University of Patras, Greece. He obtained his PhD in 2007 from the same department. His research interests lie in the areas of Structural Health Monitoring of Materials and Structures, Fracture Mechanics of composites etc. Lately, he has developed significant research work on the fracture behavior of composite materials and bonded joints and has pioneered some early works in the Remaining Useful Life prognostics of (composite) structures developing novel probabilistic Machine Learning algorithms. He has authored 75 papers in high-impact international peer-reviewed journals, 4 chapters in books and more than 90 papers in international conferences. His research has attracted significant funding from European (Horizon 2020, Clean Sky II, European Space Agency) as well as National programs. He reviews frequently for all major journals in the Composites and Structural Health Monitoring fields and he is part of the prestigious Stanford list of the global top 2% most cited researchers in his field.