Monssef Drissi-Habti (linkedin.com/in/monssef-drissi-habti-85100a66) is Research Professor at The French Institute for Transports. He a PhD thesis (1994) and the title of Research Professor since 1999 both on thermo-mechanical behavior of ceramic composite materials for aerospace. He worked in Japan from 1995 to 1999 as visiting researcher in NIRI Nagoya and Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo. He then worked until 2003 at Brown University of Engineering, RI, USA. His experience includes ceramic matrix composites for thermal protection of space crafts on both space programs HERMES (European Space Program) and NIPPON HOPE (Japan Space Program). His experience also includes thermo-mechanical behavior of smart composite materials. In USA, he worked on super-alloys for nuclear applications, in collaboration with the Research Centre Norton - St Gobain (Northboroo, MA, USA). His current research is mainly focusing on the development of structures based on smart composite materials in offshore wind-energy generation, transports, smart cities and safety-security of critical infrastructures. He is PI of many projects on smart composites. He is author of about 70 scientific papers in scientific journals with referees and sixty articles in conference proceedings.