Pr. Gilles Lubineau is Director of MCEM and ENERCOMP, a Technology Consortium for Composites in Energy, Professor of MechEng at KAUST. Pr. Lubineau earned a PhD from ENS-Cachan, has been a faculty at the ENS-Cachan, and a non-resident Instructor at the École Polytechnique, France. He also served as Interim Dean of PSE Division at KAUST. His research includes integrity of composites, inverse problems, multi-scale coupling technique, multifunctional materials. He is editor for Mechanics of Materials and elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.