Katrin Beyer is Associate Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and head of the Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics Laboratory (http://eesd.epfl.ch). After completing her undergraduate studies at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), she worked for two years for the consulting firm ARUP in London, UK, on projects related to structural dynamics, impact and seismic analysis. She received her PhD from the University of Pavia, Italy. Her research interests include the seismic behaviour of reinforced concrete walls and of unreinforced masonry structures and large-scale structural testing. She is member of the executive committee of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering and was responsible for the revision of the masonry section of the European seismic design code (Eurocode 8 Part 1). She was the recipient of the Melbourne School of Engineering & IT Visiting Fellowship (2017). She is an advocate of open science, publishing next to manuscripts also relevant experimental data and models (https://eesd.epfl.ch/data_sets/, https://zenodo.org/communities/eesd_at_epfl/about/, https://github.com/eesd-epfl). Since September 2020, she is associate dean of the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) at EPFL.