Dr. L. Govindraju is currently Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore University, Bangalore. He obtained his Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from Mysore University, India (1986), Master’s in Geotechnical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), India (1994) and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India (2005). He was awarded fellowship from National Programme on Earthquake Engineering Education (NPEEE) instituted by the Ministry of Human Resources & Development, Government of India to pursue post doctoral research in the area of earthquake engineering at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford (UK). He is the member of several professional bodies such as IGS, ISTE and ISET. He has published over 150 technical papers and two books.