Professor Nagy is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics at the University of Cincinnati. He specializes in ultrasonic, electromagnetic and thermoelectric materials characterisation, and has published numerous research papers on these subjects, in addition to having contributed to many books on NDE. Dr. Nagy is an elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the recipient of the 2008 Roy Sharpe Award of the British Institute of Nondestructive Testing, and the 2015 NDE Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society for Optics and Photonics. More recently, he received the 2021 Founders Award of the Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnosis and Prognosis Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. For more information, go to the University of Cincinnati website.
Professor Todd is the Director of the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) laboratory in the Department of Structural Engineering at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). He brings an extensive range of both academic and industry expertise to the RCNDE International Advisory Board by, for example, serving on the editorial board of ‘Structural Health Monitoring: An International Journal’ and being a partner in Los Alamos Dynamics LLC, a private engineering consulting and education company. Professor Todd has received many awards and accolades including the Structural Health Monitoring Person-of-the-Year Award in 2005, while more recently (2009), he was named a Benjamin F. Meaker Fellow at the University of Bristol. For more information, go to the University of California San Diego website.
Dr Uwe Ewert is a guest professor at the Dresden International University. He is also an RT level 3 and RT-D level 2 trainer and examiner of DGZfP and for X-Ray-Net, having conducted RT-Digital training for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since 1996 (as well as for a range of organisations across the world). Dr Ewert was previously Director and Professor of the division of ‘Non-destructive testing, radiation methods’ at BAM-Berlin (Federal Institute for Material Research and Testing) in Germany from 2000 to 2017 and, before that, he was at the Baker-Lab of Cornell University, USA. His many accolades include: The Berthold award of DGZfP (2005); the Roentgen medal (2009); the Briggs Award of ASTM-International (2010); the Roy Sharpe Award of BINDT (2016); and the needle of honour of DGZfP (2021).
Until retirement in summer 2018 Dr. Norbert Meyendorf was professor in the Aerospace Engineering program at the Iowa State University and deputy director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation in Ames, Iowa.
Before moving to Ames he was department head and branch director at the Fraunhofer institute for Nondestructive Testing in Germany for more than 20 years and Professor at the University of Dayton, Ohio and the University of Technology in Dresden, Germany for more than 10 years. He has edited several books, is author or coauthor of numerous journal articles and is editor in chief of the Journal of NDE published by Springer. He was chair of the SPIE symposium Smart Structures and NDE for 4 years and, every year since 2001, chair or co-chair of a conference within this symposium. He still continues to teach as adjunct Faculty at Iowa State University, the University of Dayton and the University Dresden, Germany. He is member of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing, the German Society for Nondestructive Testing and Fellow of SPIE.