Karam Sab is a Professor and head of Laboratoire Navier, in France, a joint research unit between Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, IFSTTAR and CNRS. His main research topics concern the homogenization of heterogeneous materials and plates: random materials, Representative Volume Element (RVE), simulation, higher order models (Cosserat), laminated plates, periodic plates, random plates and shear effects.

Arthur Lebée is a researcher at Laboratoire Navier, in France. His main topics concerns homogenization of structures, generalized continua and also origami. He is interested in applications in civil engineering.