**About the Editors**

#### **Małgorzata Jastrzębska**

Małgorzata Jastrzębska is the Associate Professor of Geotechnics at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland. Her research activities include the calibration and verification of soil models, the tests of weak cohesive soils and their mixtures with waste rubber material, the methodology of the triaxial tests and the problems of maintaining the homogeneity of the state of stress and strain, the sustainable geotechnics in the field of Renewable Energy Sources, the impact of geotechnical works on the behavior of the subsoil, the securing slopes and strengthening the soil, the studies on the impact of microwave radiation on the physical and mechanical parameters of soils. She has experience in planning and implementing advanced experimental research on weak, swelling soils. Author and co-author of over 60 publications and 3 monographs on experimental geotechnics. She completed two scientific-research internships at the "Soils, Solides, Structures—Risques" Laboratory at the Fourier University in Grenoble, France. She has an experience in training Ph.D., masters and undergraduate students. As part of the Erasmus program, she gave lectures related to advanced soil mechanics in experimental terms at the J. Fourier University in Grenoble and at the University 2 in Montpellier.

ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0080-5784

Web of Science profile: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/796221 Scopus profile: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57197324744 ResearchGate website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Malgorzata Jastrzebska

#### **Krystyna Kazimierowicz-Frankowska**

Krystyna Kazimierowicz-Frankowska, PhD, DSc, is Associate Professor at the Institute of Hydro-Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is the Deputy Head in the Department of Geomechanics. Author and co-author of over 80 publications and 4 books on marine and inland civil engineering specifically focused on mechanics of reinforced soil, experimental mechanics and investigation of liquefaction of saturated and unsaturated soils, soil-water-structure interaction, modelling of engineering structure behaviour under different types of loading. As part of the implementation of international projects (such as: Numerical modelling of liquefaction around marine structures—http://nulimas.info), she cooperates with foreign partners from international research groups and companies. She also has extensive experience in carrying out expert works commissioned by many international and national institutions such as: European Research Executive Agency, National Centre for Research and Development, Polish Agency for Enterprise Development and others. Her expert work mainly concerns the assessment of various innovative solutions in the field of civil and marine engineering.

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6648-6600 https://www.ibwpan.gda.pl/employee/82 https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=rmeHFXIAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao

#### **Gabriele Chiaro**

Gabriele Chiaro is Associate Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His research focuses on Geotechnical Engineering for Resilience and Sustainability with special interests on: Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering; Geoenvironmental Engineering; Ground Improvement; Experimental and Computational Geotechnics. He holds a BSc and MSc in Civil Engineering (Italy) and a PhD (Tokyo, Japan). His career involves 15 years of work in the academy (5 years in Japan; 3 years in Australia; 7 years in New Zealand). To date, he has secured over NZ\$ 2.2 million in research funding as Principal Investigator. He has authored/co-authored over 120 peer-reviewed scientific publications, and his excellence in research has been recognized by many accolades, including the JGS Best Paper Award (2022), IABSE Best Scientific Paper Award (2021), NZSEE Otto Glogau Award (2020) and a JSPS Research Fellowship (2014). He served as Team Leader of the 2016 NZSEE LfE Mission, Kumamoto, Japan, and Team Co-Leader of the 2015 JGS/JSCE LfE Mission, Gorkha, Nepal. Currently, he represents the New Zealand Geotechnical Society in the ISSMGE TC101 and AsRTC1.

ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7328-2932

https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/engineering/contact-us/people/gabriele-chiaro.html https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=yITGRvIAAAAJ&hl=en

#### **Jaroslaw Rybak**

Jaroslaw Rybak is Assistant Professor at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland. He works in Geotechnical Engineering, especially on deep excavations, foundation piles, soil improvement methods and environmental impact of geotechnical and mining technologies, and is responsible of many research projects as well as contracts with various companies. He is the author of 173 publications (63 articles in periodicals, 94 conference papers, 7 papers in monographic works) and of manifold unpublished works. In total, 52 of his papers are indexed in Web of Science (h-index=11), 61 of their papers are indexed in Scopus (h-index=15). He did over 200 reviews of journal and conference papers (verified in Web of Science) including over 150 reviews for journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics). He is a member of the Reviewer Boards for journals: *Studia Geotechnica et Mechanica*, and *Applied Sciences*, and he is currently involved in many editorial works, including managing Special Issues (as Academic Editor) in: *Energies*, *Sensors*, *Applied Sciences* and *Buildings*. He actively collaborates with numerous international conferences (Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, Russia, Uzbekistan, Vietnam), working in Scientific Committees and reviewing contributions. Since 2022 he joined Editorial Board of *Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Materials*.

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7267-1044

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