Mithila Achintha (ORCID ID 0000-0002-1732-3514) is Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Infrastructure Materials at the University of Manchester, UK. He has a PhD in Structural Engineering from University of Cambridge, and after PhD, he worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Oxford. Prior to joining the University of Manchester in 2020, he worked as a lecturer in civil engineering at University of Southampton, UK. Mithila is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and hold Fellowships - FIStructE with the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) and FIMMM with the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IoM3).