Luigi Coppola, Civil Engineer, Associate Professor at University of Bergamo (Italy) – Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences and President of American Concrete Institute - Italy Chapter. He has authored more than 300 original papers and 21 books on admixtures for concrete, alternative low-carbon binders, waste management in concrete production, deterioration, durability and repair of concrete structures, mix-design, deterioration and restoration of historical buildings, corrosion and protection of rebars in reinforced concrete structures.
In June 2000 Luigi Coppola was conferred an award for the “Outstanding and sustained contributions to enhance the Durability of Concrete” by the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the Canadian Institute of Materials, Energy and Transportation (CANMET). Editor and member of many international Journals, he is the chairperson of Thirteenth International Conference on Superplasticizers and other Chemical Admixtures in Concrete – Milan, Italy, October-November 2021 and Fifteenth International Conference on Recent Advances in Concrete Technology and Sustainability Issues – Milan, Italy, October-November 2021.