 Hi, I'm Michael Todd, Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of California, San Diego in California, the United States, and it's quite an honor and indeed a privilege to have been invited by the organizers of this cost action to give some perspective on this research from my own work on structural health monitoring. That's particularly exciting because I think the topic of this cost action, the value of structural health monitoring is exactly the link that has not yet been explored in detail. Structural health monitoring is actually quite technically mature technology, however it's not in common practice I think in industry simply because we have not made the proper link of the business case in establishing the value of the kinds of information one can get from a structural health monitoring system and that is fundamentally the topic that this group is addressing. So it's quite a privilege to be associated with what I think is truly the absolute forefront of the structural health monitoring research field and what I hope comes out of this in addition to the obvious successes at propelling structural health monitoring into practice is some really substantive collaborations between the units here and the groups in the United States who are also working very hard in this area and I believe that's already happening. The networking I've made with many of the students and collaborators is exciting and we already have plans for future collaborations to advance this technology. So it's indeed an excellent opportunity and it's been quite a privilege to be here in beautiful Croatia to accomplish this work.