Dr. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of California, Berkeley, since January 2020. Prior to this appointment, she was a faculty member in the CEE department at the University of Michigan (2008-2019).

She received her Ph.D. and MSc. in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008 and 2004 respectively. She has received the NSF CAREER award (2013), the 2014 Univ of Michigan Faculty Excellence Award, the 2015 ASCE Arthur Casagrande Award, the 2015 ASCE Thomas Middlebrooks Award, the 2016 Chi Epsilon (XE) Outstanding Teaching Award, she delivered the 30th Annual Mueser Rutledge Memorial Lecture in 2020, received the 2020 TC203 Young Research Award from the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and was the 32nd Buchanan Lecturer (2024). Adda is the Past-President of the US Universities Council on Geotechnical Education and Research (USUCGER) and has been a lead and member for several GEER missions. Her research focuses on soil liquefaction, seismic slope stability, and the response of flood protection systems and soil structures under extreme loading like hurricanes and earthquakes as well as new technologies and methodologies to design, monitor and reinforce them.

Pedro Arduino is a professor at the University of Washington Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering since 1997. His primary research interests are in computational geomechanics with emphasis in constitutive modeling of soils, finite element analysis, and hazard analysis. Most of his current research is in the area of soil-structure interaction, performance-based earthquake engineering, and landslide and debris flow simulation. He conducts research for the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center, and the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). He is a member of the ASCE EM Inelasticity and ER Earth and Retaining Structures committees and serves on the editorial board of the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering.   Prof. Arduino is a member of GEER and was part of the reconnaissance team that visited Chile after the 2010 Maule, Chile, and 2011 Great Japan earthquakes. He also serves as a consultant to private firms and government agencies in the U.S. and abroad.

Boulanger is a geotechnical consultant and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he was on the faculty for over 30 years. He has over 300 publications, primarily related to liquefaction and its remediation, seismic performance of dams and levees, and seismic soil-structure interaction. His honors include the Peck Award from ASCE, the Ishihara Lecture from ISSMGE, and election to the US National Academy of Engineering.

Jonathan Bray, Ph.D., P.E., NAE is the Faculty Chair in Earthquake Engineering Excellence at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Bray is a registered professional civil engineer and has served as a consultant on important engineering projects and peer review panels. He has authored more than 490 research publications on topics that include liquefaction and its effects on structures, seismic performance of dams, earthquake ground motions and site effects, and earthquake fault rupture propagation. He created and led the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association. Dr. Bray is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and has received several honors, including the Seed Medal, Terzaghi Award, Ishihara Lecture, Peck Award, Joyner Lecture, Middlebrooks Award, Huber Research Prize, Packard Foundation Fellowship, and NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award.

Dr. Kaustav Chatterjee is Associate Professor in Department of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He pursued his M.Tech. + Ph.D. Dual Degree program in Geotechnical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2016. Dr. Chatterjee was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Kyoto University, Japan before joining IIT Roorkee in 2016. His research area focusses on soil dynamics, geotechnical earthquake engineering, foundation engineering, offshore geotechnics, theoretical and numerical modeling in geomechanics. He has published close to 70 research papers in SCI and SCOPUS indexed journals and reputed international conferences. He has already supervised 10 M.Tech. and 3 Ph.D. scholars and 8 more Ph.D. scholars are currently under his supervision. Dr. Chatterjee's research work has received several accolades like ISSMGE Bright Spark Lecture Award, Prof. John Carter Award from IACMAG for outstanding research contribution in Geomechanics, Prof. G. A. Leonard’s Biennial Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in Geotechnical Engineering from Indian Geotechnical Society, Associate Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, Young Scientist Research Award from BRNS, among others. Dr. Chatterjee is also Corresponding Member of TC 103 Numerical Methods in Geomechanics.

Professor Misko Cubrinovski is internationally recognized for his contributions to earthquake geotechnical engineering. His nearly 40-year career spans Europe, Japan, and New Zealand, where he led significant research on soil liquefaction following the Canterbury earthquakes (2010-2011) and the Kaikōura earthquake (2016). In 2018, he received the highest honor from the New Zealand Geotechnical Society for his national contributions. His technical expertise and leadership have had a global impact, fostering international collaboration in the field.

Sebastiano Foti is a Professor in Geotechnical Engineering and the Head of the Department of Structural Geotechnical and Building Engineering at Politecnico di Torino (Italy). He was a member of SC7-PT3 (the drafting team of Second Generation Eurocode 7 - Geotechnical design - Part 2: Ground investigation and testing). He is a member of the Italian Geotechnical Society and currently the vice-chair of TC203 Earthquakes of the ISSMGE. His research activity is mainly devoted to geotechnical earthquake engineering, soil-structure interaction and geophysical methods for geotechnical characterization. Author of the book “Surface wave methods for near-surface site characterization”.

He was awarded the Geotechnical Research Medal (Bishop Medal) by the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK) and an Honorable Mention by the Society of Exploration Geophysics (USA) and the Outstanding Paper Award from Earthquake Spectra by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.

Christian Ledezma is an Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). He has a BS and an MS degree from that same university, and an MS and a Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently the vice-president of ACHISINA, Chile’s Association of Earthquake Engineering, and an active member in the discussion and elaboration of Chilean seismic codes. At PUC he teaches courses in geotechnical earthquake engineering and deep foundations. He is currently the Head of the Structural and Geotechnical Engineering Department at PUC. Dr. Ledezma has conducted post-earthquake reconnaissance investigations following the last three major Chilean earthquakes (Maule 2010 Mw8.8, Iquique 2014 Mw8.2, and Illapel 2015 Mw8.4), and the Mw7.1 Puebla 2017 Mexico earthquake. His main areas of interest are soil structure interaction, soil liquefaction, and geotechnical earthquake engineering.

Dr. Rathje is the Janet S. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering in the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT).  She has expertise in the areas of seismic site response analysis, seismic slope stability, engineering seismology, and liquefaction.  Dr. Rathje is a founding member and previous Co-Chair of the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association, and currently the Principal Investigator for the DesignSafe cyberinfrastructure that supports research in natural hazards.  Her awards include the 2022 Peck Lecture Award from the ASCE Geo-Institute and the 2018 William B. Joyner Lecture Award from the Seismological Society of America and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. She was elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2016 and she was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Prof. Towhata was a professor of civil engineering at the University of Tokyo until 2015. After 2015, he has been working for private sectors together with several engineering/academic societies, including the Japanese Geotechnical Society as the president and the Int. Soc. Soil Mech. Geotech. Engg. as a vice president. His recent interests lie in geotechnical earthquake engineering, mitigation of slope disasters and the engineering perspective of tectonic action of the earth crust. He has authored more than 500 academic papers in international journals and conferences together with two books entitled ‘Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering’ (2008, Springer) and ‘Coseismic landslides: phenomena, long-term effect and mitigation’ (with 17 coauthors with three coeditors, 2022, Springer). He was the Ishihara Lecture of TC203, ISSMGE, in 2019.

Civil Engineer from Catholic University of Chile (1983), Master and Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, Japan (1989 and 1992, respectively). Postdoctoral fellowship at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (1996). He has served as Director, Secretary, and President of the Chilean Geotechnical Society (Sochige). Following the mega-seismic event of magnitude Mw = 8.8 that hit Chile in February 2010, he led the team of professionals that modified the seismic site classification in Chilean regulations. He is currently the Chair of the Technical Committee of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, TC221, on Tailings and Mine Waste. He is a founding partner of the Chilean geotechnical engineering consulting firm CMGI Ltda. (Caracterización y Modelamiento Geotécnico Ingenieros), which addresses complex geotechnical problems, especially those associated with the seismic stability of soil structures, in civil, industrial, and mining projects.

Lanmin Wang is professor of Lanzhou Institute of Seismology, CEA, in China. He is members of TC203, TC208, and ATC3, ISSMGE. He is a standing member of China Society on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. He was director of Lanzhou Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration, from 2004 to 2017.

He received his Ph.D. in geotechnical engineering from the Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, in 2000. His research interests include soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering, especially seismic landslides, liquefaction and subsidence of loess sites. He has authored 4 books, including Loess Dynamics and more than 200 papers. He won National Scientific and Technological Progress Award of China in 2002, 6 Provincial and Ministry‘s Scientific and Technological Progress Awards from 1998 to 2016, and the honors of “The National Outstanding Scientists in Earthquake Science and Technology ” respectively in 2007 and 2017.

Lidija Zdravkovic is Professor of Computational Geomechanics at Imperial College London, where she has been an academic staff member since 1996, after completing a PhD degree at the same university. Her research integrates soil characterisation and numerical modelling to aid the sustainable design of geotechnical infrastructure, focusing on offshore renewables, geothermal energy, climate change impact, transport and flood infrastructure, earth dams and tailings, and nuclear waste disposal.

She has published over 250 technical papers and has received awards from the British Geotechnical Association and the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the 2019 Imperial College President’s Medal for Excellence in Education. She is a UK core member of ISSMGE TC103 for Numerical Analysis and a corresponding member of TC221 for Tailings and Mine Wastes. Lidija has consulted on several major UK infrastructure projects and is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. She delivered the Rankine Lecture in 2024 and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Géotechnique..

Zimmaro is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering at the University of Calabria in Italy and a Research Affiliate at the Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. His current research interests include geotechnical earthquake engineering and engineering seismology, with emphases on: (1) ground failure hazard characterization (including liquefaction and landslides), (2) system reliability of distributed infrastructure and lifelines, (3) data analytics in civil engineering, and (4) advanced tools for post-disaster reconnaissance and recovery. His research received funding by various federal and state agencies in Italy and the USA, including NASA and the Italian Ministry for Research. In 2020, he ranked first in the Italian National Program for Young Researchers "Rita Levi Montalcini". Dr. Zimmaro is the recipient of various awards including the 2018 Earthquake Spectra Outstanding Paper Award and the 2024 TC203 Young Researcher Award.