Dr Bobet is the Edgar B. and Hedwig M. Olson Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Civil Engineering from Technical University of Madrid in Spain and a Doctor of Science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Bobet’s areas of interest include rock fracture mechanics, wave propagation through fractured media and underground structures.

Hamed Lamei Ramandi is a lecturer in the School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering. He received MSc and PhD degrees in Petroleum Engineering from UNSW Sydney, and a BSc degree in Geology from Azad University Tehran North Branch. His research spans a wide range of geological problems. He has two primary research areas. One is the application of high-resolution X-ray microcomputed tomography to a diverse spectrum of disciplines, including coal seam gas, hydrogeology, structural geology and material science. The other is analysis of premature failure of ground supports in underground environments.

Kunze received his BSc degree in China University of Mining and Technology and MSc degree in UNSW. He is currently a PhD student in School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, UNSW, mainly focus on shotcrete.

Xu Zhu received her bachelor degree in civil engineering from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) in 2017 and master degree in geotechnical engineering from Dalian University of Technology, China in 2020. She is currently a 2nd year PhD student in UNSW majoring in Mining Engineering. Her main research area is hydro-mechanical coupled behaviour of rock discontinuities.

Phibe Khalkho is a Research Scholar in Civil Engineering Department of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Their research area involves laboratory testing of intact and jointed rock under monotonic and cyclic loading and studying the engineering behaviour of rocks.

Takahisa Endo is currently enrolled in a master's program at the graduate school of integrated basic sciences of Nihon University (Japan). He is currently working as a research assistant at the Geological Survey of Japan, AIST. His main research interest is the development of a visual measurement system to observe the triaxial slip behavior of rocks.

Aydin Shaterpour Mamaghani is a PhD candidate at Istanbul Technical University working under the supervision of Professor Hanifi Copur. They are studying about the performance prediction and optimization of Raise Boring Machines. Aydin graduated with an MSc degree in Mining Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 2015, and received a BSc degree in Mining Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, in 2012. They are currently working in Istanbul Technical University as a project researcher.

Dr. Dagan Bakun-Mazor is an expert in the field of engineering geology. He earned his PhD in Geology and Environmental Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel, with his dissertation on dynamic behavior of rock masses. Dr. Bakun-Mazor works in the field of Soil and Rock Mechanics, currently researching remote sensing approaches to evaluate mechanical properties of rock masses. Dr. Bakun-Mazor raises grants from competitive and prestigious research funds. He is the Vice President of the Israel Rock Mechanics Association (ISRM-NG) and the former Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at SCE.