Christian Louter is Professor of Structural Design & Building Engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences at TU Delft. With the group of Structural Design & Building Engineering, he provides education and research on safe, smart and sustainable structures. Moreover, he has more than 15 years of research experience in the field of glass structures.Christian holds a PhD degree from TU Delft on the topic of Structural Glass and has worked at EPFL (Post-Doc at Steel Structures Laboratory), TU Delft (Assistant Professor of Structural Design) and TU Dresden (Professor of Building Construction) before re-joining TU Delft in 2022.Next to his research and teaching activities, Christian is an Organiser of the international Challenging Glass Conference series, an Editor-in-Chief of the Glass Structures & Engineering journal (Springer), Editorial Board member of the Architecture, Structures & Construction journal (Springer) and member of several international committees.