Ioannis Anastasopoulos has been Full Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at ETH Zurich since 2016. Since 2023, he is also Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. He specializes in geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil–structure interaction, combining numerical with experimental methods. His research interests include resilient seismic design and mitigation, faulting and its effects on structures, offshore geotechnics, tsunamis, scouring of foundations, and soil liquefaction. He is the inaugural recipient of the ISSMGE Young Researcher Award in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, and winner of the 2012 Shamsher Prakash Research Award. His consulting work ranges from the design of pile-rafts of tall buildings, to bridge foundations, metro stations, tunnels, quay walls, and special design against faulting. He is Editor-in-Chief of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, and has been Associate Editor in several Journals, including Géotechnique. He is a Director of IAEE and Chair of ISSMGE TC104 on Physical Modelling.

Dr. Cox is a Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Utah State University (USU) and the founding director of the new Utah Earthquake Engineering Center. Dr Cox specializes in issues related to seismic design and in-situ site characterization for major civil infrastructure projects and critical nuclear facilities. His research efforts combine experimental field testing with computational analyses for subsurface imaging purposes and multi-dimensional seismic wave propagation simulations. He has led teams deployed to collect seismic site characterization data at ground motion recording stations, soil liquefaction sites, and structural failures following significant earthquakes in the U.S. and around the world. Dr Cox is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE), which he received in a ceremony at the White House from President Barack Obama. He has authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications and has taught eight different courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels at three different universities.

Dr. Russell Green is the Charles E. Via, Jr. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, in the Geotechnical Engineering Program area. He was previously on the faculty at the University of Michigan and has held visiting faculty positions at Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. The primary focus of Russell’s research is in the areas of geotechnical earthquake engineering, and soil and site improvement. He has participated in post-earthquake investigations in the US, Iceland, Haiti, Japan, and New Zealand, and holds two US patents related to liquefaction mitigation measures. Russell received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his PhD from Virginia Tech. Russell is a registered professional engineer in Virginia and a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.

Jonathan joined the University of Dundee as a Lecturer in 2006, following MEng and PhD degrees at the University of Cambridge, and was promoted to Professor of Civil Engineering in 2018.  In January 2026 he will move to the University of Oxford.  His research interests including liquefaction and its effects on foundations and structures, urban earthquake engineering (structure-soil-structure interaction and underground tunnel systems) and protection of slopes (including the use of nature-based solutions).  He is the recipient of the 2010 TK Hsieh Award for Civil Engineering Dynamics (ICE/IStructE, UK), 2018 TC203 Young Researcher Award, 2024 Telford Gold Medal (ICE, UK) and in 2017 he gave the 13^th Géotechnique Lecture.  He was Chairman of the Editorial Panel of the International Journal of Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (2014-2018) and is a Corresponding Member of TC203.  He is a Chartered Engineer and a co-author of Design of Piles in Liquefiable Soils.

Anne Lemnitzer is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine (USA). Her primary research interests include experimental soil-structure-interaction, underground structures, deep foundations, and sensor instrumentation. She serves as Co-editor in Chief for the Deep Foundations Journal, Associate Editor for the ASCE’s Journal of Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering (JGGE), Reconnaissance lead for a multitude of hazard events (seismic and flood), and Past Chair of the Geo-Institute’s Earth Retaining Structures Technical Committee. At UC Irvine she teaches undergraduate and graduate coursework in geotechnical and geo-structural engineering.

Dr. Mayoral is a distinguished civil and geotechnical earthquake engineer with a 30-year career. As a researcher at UNAM's Institute of Engineering and an independent consultant, his expertise covers numerical modeling, seismic soil-structure interaction, and the resilient design of strategic infrastructure (tunnels, bridges, dams). A PhD graduate from UC Berkeley, he has led over 51 research projects, supervised numerous graduate students, published more than 200 papers, and coordinated international reconnaissance teams, such as after the 2017 Puebla-Mexico City earthquake. He is also the leader of the Advanced Numerical Modeling and Instrumentation Group at UNAM.

Duhee Park holds a B.S. (1996) from Hanyang University, an M.S. (1998) in structural engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and a M.S. (2000) and a Ph.D. (2004) in civil engineering (geotechnical engineering) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Hanyang University in 2005. His fields of expertise include ground response analysis, seismic performance analysis of underground structures, liquefaction assessment, seismic slope stability, and probabilistic seismic hazard analysis. He uses both the physics-based approach utilizing high-fidelity numerical models and data-driven procedures involving machine learning algorithms. Professor Park has received a number of awards from the university, government, and technical societies including Korean Society of Civil Engineering, Korean Geotechnical Society, and Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea. He is currently a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea.

Graduated from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France) in 1972 and obtained a Master of Science degree from the University of California, at Berkeley in 1973. Until 2015 he was Chairman and Managing Director of Géodynamique et Structure, a French engineering consulting firm in Earthquake Engineering that he founded 45 years ago; upon retiring he became independent consultant.

Alain Pecker is Past President of the French Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Honorary President of the French Association on Earthquake Engineering and member of the executive committee of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering. He is a member of the drafting panel of Eurocode 8 and President of the French Committee for seismic codes. He is also Honorary Professor at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and has been elected Member of the French National Academy of Technologies in 2000.

Dr. Rafael Sharafutdinov is a highly accomplished geotechnical engineer and researcher, holding a Ph.D. in Soil Mechanics and serving as the Director of the Gersevanov Research Institute (NIIOSP) in Moscow. With expertise in complex nonlinear soil modeling, his professional work focuses on the design and safety of foundations and underground structures for major projects like the Luzhniki Stadium and Olympic facilities in Sochi. A prolific author with numerous publications in leading international journals and conferences, he is a prominent figure in the geotechnical community, frequently organizing and moderating key industry forums such as the 100+TechnoBuild conference and the Russian Forum of Soil Investigators. His research interests are extensive, covering pile foundation behavior, soil creep, seismic liquefaction mitigation, and the validation of advanced soil models through laboratory and field data.

Professor Francesco Silvestri is a leading expert in geotechnical engineering at the University of Napoli "Federico II," where he also earned his Ph.D. His career, which includes a professorship at the University of Calabria, is dedicated to experimental and analytical research in earthquake geotechnical engineering, focusing on seismic slope stability, liquefaction, and soil-structure interaction. Professor Silvestri is a prominent figure in the international community, demonstrated by his role as Chairman of the 7th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, his membership on technical committees like ISSMGE TC203, and his frequent invitations as a keynote and reporter at premier international conferences.

Rui is a Professor at Tsinghua University. He received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2014. He has also worked as a visiting scholar at UCLA, UC Davis, and Lawrence Livemore National Laboratory, USA in 2011-2012, and 2014-2015. His research mainly focuses on geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil liquefaction. He is the recipient of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) TC203 Young Researcher Award and ISSMGE Bright Spark Lecture Award. He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and the Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program from the National Nature Science Foundation of China. Currently, he serves as the secretary general for the Chinese Institution of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (CISMGE) and the secretary for TC210 of ISSMGE.

Domniki Asimaki is a Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, and the Chair in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering at Imperial College London. She holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research lies at the interface of geotechnical engineering and engineering seismology. She is the recipient of many awards and recognitions and the author and co-author of more than 150 journal papers in geotechnical engineering, mechanics, physics of solids, metamaterials, machine learning and seismology

Dr. Sonja is a geotechnical engineering expert with a PhD from the University of Tokyo. She was a professor at the Zagreb University of Applied Sciences (2003-2023) and held leadership roles, including Vice-Rector. She is a key organizer of international geotechnical conferences, including leading the upcoming 2029 Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering conference in Croatia.

Prof. Kiyota has started Geo-disaster Mitigation Engineering Laboratory at Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo in 2010, and has conducted extensive experimental research on soil liquefaction and mitigation of the earthquake geotechnical damage. He has extensive practical expertise and strong interactions with key stakeholders and end users in Japan. He has received several academic awards for his research from the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), the Japan Geotechnical Society (JGS), and Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT). He has also led JGS and JSCE investigation teams and international collaborative research groups focusing on ground motion characteristics, landform changes, and soil dynamics not only within Japan but also for major earthquakes worldwide, such as the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake in Indonesia and the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake. He is currently a nominated member of TC203 (Earthquake) and TC221 (Tailing and Mine Wastes) of ISSMGE.

Dr. Wei F. Lee holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington and is the Deputy General Manager of two prominent Taiwanese firms: Ground Master Construction and MICE Engineering Consultants. He is a leading expert in earthquake geotechnical engineering, forensic engineering, and infrastructure retrofit. Dr. Lee has led over 220 research projects, authored more than 230 publications, and holds key editorial roles, including Associate Editor for the ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities.