Kristof Harri was born in Bruges, Belgium, on June 25, 1971. He received the degree in Mechanical Engineering Polytechnic Faculty from the Royal Military Academy (Brussels) in November 1994. Currently he is Lieutenant Colonel in the Belgian Armed Forces and lecturer at the Department of Mechanics of the Royal Military Academy. From 1998 until 2001 he followed complementary courses in dynamics of mechanical structures at the Free University of Brussels. He finished his Ph.D. thesis on vibration-based damage detection techniques. His main research interests are situated in the field of experimental modal analysis.