Stefano Manzoni received the European Ph.D. in mechanical system engineering in 2006 from Politecnico di Milano and was visiting scholar at Fraunhofer Institute LBF in Darmstadt, Germany, in 2005. He is currently Associate Professor with the department of mechanical engineering of Politecnico di Milano. He is in the editorial board of different scientific journals. His main scientific interests are in the fields of vibration control with smart materials, structural health monitoring, human-structure interaction, signal analysis and system identification. He is author of more than 130 scientific papers and of 2 international patents and he is involved in different national and international research projects.