Prof. Pierre Delage currently works at the Navier, CERMES, École des Ponts ParisTech as senior researcher. His academic carrier includes Post­doc research fellow at Université de Sherbrooke-Canada (1980–1982); Research fellow at CERMES (1983–1985); Deputy director of CERMES(1985–2003) Professor at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées-Paris (1997); Head at CERMES (the geotechnical research group of ENPC, 38 persons) (2003–2010); Invited Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2010–2011); Senior researcher, Laboratoire Navier/CERMES (2011– ). His research interests include unsaturated soils mechanics (applications to earth dams, embankments, compacted bentonite for radioactive waste storage, effects of drought on buildings, collapsible loess, shales), thermo-mechanics of clays and shales (radioactive waste storage), microstructure and behaviour of soft soils (sensitive clays, deep marine soils) and shales, mechanical behaviour of multiphase chalks (oil reservoirs, stability of chalk quarries) / Soil reinforcement (nailing, fibres), soil pollution by NAPL, Dr. Delage has published 345 papers including 110 International Peer-reviewed Journal papers, 20 invited keynote/general reports at international conferences,150 international conference papers, 12 Books, Proceedings (Ed.), 10 Book Chapters and supervised 23 PhDs He has been or still is member of various editorial panels (ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal-USA, Computers and Geotechnics-UK (up to 2016), Geomechanics and Geoengineering-UK, Rivista Geotecnica Italiana, Revista Escolas de Minas-Brasil). He plays an active role in memberships issues and still serves as Corresponding member, French Academy of Agriculture (2017– ); Chair, Technical Oversight Presidential Board Level Committee, ISSMGE (2013– ); Member of the Board of the French Geotechnical Association (CFMS) (2012– ); Member, InSight Science Team, NASA (InSight is an on­going mission on Mars,successfully landed on 26 November 2018) (2013– )

Dr. Ilknur Bozbey received her undergraduate, Master of Science and PhD degrees from Bogaziçi University, Department of Civil Engineering in Turkey. She worked as a research assistant in Bogaziçi University Civil Engineering Department between 1994-2001. She has been working in Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Civil Engineering Department since 2002, where she was appointed as a full time Professor in February 2018. She currently is the Head of Geotechnical Division in the department. Professor Ilknur Bozbey delivered various courses at undergraduate and graduate level, and has directed several graduate theses. She has published several papers in journals and conferences. Her research areas cover soil stabilization focusing on lime, environmental geotechnics and geotechnical earthquake engineering. She is currently a key researcher in a Horizon 2020, Liquefact Project on behalf of Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa team. In the recent years, she has carried out several research on engineering behavior of lime stabilized soils and their use in pavement design. She is the member of the Executive Board for Turkish Society for ISSMGE since 2014 and has acted as the coordinator of the 17th Turkish National Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, which was organized in September 2018.

Andrea Dominijanni is an Assistant Professor at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy), where he also received his PhD degree in 2005. His research activity is devoted to soil-structure interaction analysis, ground improvement methods, containment systems for landfills and polluted sites, contaminant transport in the subsoil and chemo-mechanical coupled phenomena in clay soils. In 2010, he was appointed Secretary of the Technical Committee 215 “Environmental Geotechnics” of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). He is a member of the Technical Committee on Barrier Systems of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS). He has held invited lectures and special courses at several national and international conferences in the field of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, including the International Congress on Environmental Engineering, the International Symposium of Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics and the Italian Congress on Geotechnical Engineering. He has been member of the organizing committee of several international conferences and workshops. He is author of more than 70 journal papers, conference proceedings and book chapters. As far as his professional activity is concerned, Andrea Dominijanni has been a geotechnical consultant for the design of barrier and remediation systems for several sites of relevant national interest, a technical consultant in civil trials, and worked on special projects, such as the numerical modelling of the Messina bridge foundations and the assessment of the mechanical and environmental safety conditions of an 18.000.000 m3 deposit of red muds.

Dr. Nejan Huvaj received her B.S. degree from Middle East Technical University (METU) Civil Engineering Department in Ankara, Turkey in 1999 and M.S. and PhD degrees from Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA. Her PhD thesis was supervised by Prof. Mesri and the title of the thesis is Movement of Reactivated Landslides. She was a teaching assistant at UIUC during 2005-2008 and she is a faculty member at METU Civil Engineering Department since 2009. Dr. Huvaj teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses on Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering, Slope Stability, Ground Improvement, Deep Excavations and Geosynthetics. Some of her recent research topics include rainfall triggered landslides, probabilistic slope stability, passive piles for stabilization of landslides, interaction of marginal fills and geogrids for reinforced soil walls and slopes, and offshore geotechnical engineering. She is a member of the Joint Technical Committee (JTC1) on Natural Slopes and Landslides of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) and ASCE GeoInstitute's Technical Committee on Embankments, Dams and Slopes.