Specializing in Structural and Earthquake Engineering, Prof. Dr. Alper İlki has been working at Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering since 1993. Alper İlki, who is the author of 85 articles published in Web of Science-indexed journals and 200+ full-text international conference papers, has been involved in many research projects on Structural and Earthquake engineering funded by European Union, NATO, TÜBİTAK, JICA, and others. Alper İlki, who has supervised 19 completed doctoral theses and more than 80 masters theses, has reviewed more than 370 scientific articles in 61 different scientific journals, 46 of which are indexed by Web of Science. Alper İlki, who is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Turkish Earthquake Foundation and a member of the Board of the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool, has served for the drafting of Turkish Seismic Design Code (2007), Regulation on Assessment of Risky Buildings (2013) and Turkish Seismic Design Code (2018). Currently, he is working as an editor, assistant editor and subject editor for Turkish Journal of Civil Engineering, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering and some other scientific journals, as well as serving in the AFAD IRAP Evaluation and Monitoring committee, among others. Other than delivering keynote and invited lectures in different parts of the world, he has been the chairs (or chairs) of several highly reputable international conferences, such as SMAR conference series since 2013, CICE 2020 and fib Symposium 2023, among others. Professor Ilki, who is the head of national delegation to fib-International, has been co-editor of three international books published by Springer; Seismic Risk Assessment and Retrofitting, Seismic Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Structures, Advances in Assessment and Modeling of Earthquake Loss with highly reputed researchers such as Michael Fardis, Mustafa Erdik and Sinan Akkar, among others. He has also been involved in design, construction, restoration and seismic retrofitting of a number of invaluable actual structures, such as Hagia Sophia in Istanbul and Nicosia, Sivas Divrigi Ulu Mosque and Hospital, Edirne Selimiye Mosque, among many others.