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Ionut is an Associate Researcher of the CERIS Research Centre (University of Lisbon) and an Invited Professor with the Lusófona University, in Lisbon.

He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering (2008). His research includes the development of hybrid-Trefftz finite elements for a variety of physical problems, their implementation in the (open-source & user-friendly) FreeHyTE environment and their application to practical engineering problems. Also, Ionut is interested in hybrid structural health monitoring techniques, where numerical models are used to provide data for the training of machine learning algorithms for damage detection.

António is a Full Professor of the Engineering School of the University of Minho, in Guimarães, Portugal. He holds PhDs from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris, 1985) and Technical University of Lisbon (1987).

He is the chair of the Doctoral program in Civil Engineering and a Vice-Dean of School of Engineering of the University of Minho. He was the Chairman of the ISSMGE - European Technical Committee - ETC 11 Geotechnical Aspects in Design and Construction of Pavements and Rail Track (1998-2001), TC 3 Geotechnics for Pavements (2001-2009), TC 202 Transportation Geotechnics (2009-2013), President of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society (2004-2008). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Transportation Geotechnics.

António is involved in research, teaching and consulting in the general field of geotechnics and pavement engineering for 38 years. His work embraced transportation geotechnics, particularly soil and pavement geo-material properties and modelling, compaction, soil improvement, foundations, geotechnical design and management.

João is a Full Professor of the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon. He holds a PhD from the Technical University of Lisbon (1979).

He is the coordinator of the Research line in Computer Aided Analysis of Structures, Centre of Structural Mechanics and Structural Engineering. His research interests include the non-linear analysis of structures, mathematical programming in structural analysis; hybrid-mixed, hybrid and hybrid-Trefftz finite element formulations.

Natàlia is a research fellow at CERIS Research Centre, University of Lisbon.

She is a physicist and holds a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering (Barcelona, 2016). Her PhD and previous research involved numerical research of sand production in oil wells coupling Discrete Element Method and Computational Fluid Dynamics. Her research interests are numerical models for geomaterials, the development of hybrid-Trefftz finite elements and their implementation in FreeHyTE in 3D.

Abdalla is a MSc research fellow at the University of Minho. He received a BSc degree in civil engineering (Khartoum, 2012) and is specialised in Geotechnics. Abdalla was involved in several geotechnical projects in Sudan, including research on unsaturated soil mechanics, expansive and collapsible soils, deep foundations and non-destructive testing. In 2018, he received an MSc from Technical University of Graz, degree in Geotechnics and Hydraulic engineering, with a focus on soil mechanics and tunneling.

Mohammad is a MSc research fellow at the University of Minho. He received a BSc degree in transportation engineering (Kabul Polytechnic University, 2013) and an MSc degree in civil engineering from the Eskisehir Osmangazi University (Turkey) and specialises in Geomechanics. Between 2020 and 2022, Mohammad was a research fellow at the Malaysian University of Technology working on road pavement designing and maintenance. Mohammad is the author of three papers, published in high visibility international journals.

Marcos is a Civil Engineer (Madrid, 1991). His speciality is geotechnics. He received his doctorate in 2001 from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol (United Kingdom). He is currently an Associate Professor at Civil Engineering Department of the UPC (Technical University of Catalonia), in Barcelona, where he teaches marine foundations (MSc Marine Energies) and Geotechnical Engineering (MSc on Soil Engineering, UPC). As a researcher he has also worked at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and University College (London, United Kingdom)

David Muir Wood received his PhD at Cambridge University in 1974, followed by a lectureship from 1975-1987, moving to Glasgow University where he was the Cormack Chair of Civil Engineering.

In 1995 he was elected Chair of Civil Engineering at Bristol University, becoming Dean of the Faculty of Engineering in 2003. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1998. David Muir Wood's current research explores themes concerned with the particle-continuum duality of soils. He is developing constitutive models for soils with breakable particles, for soils whose finer particles are being transported away by internal flow of water, and for soils whose mechanical response is improved by the addition of short flexible fibres. He has written four books: Soil behaviour and critical state soil mechanics (1990), Geotechnical modelling (2004), Soil mechanics: a one-dimensional introduction (2009), Civil engineering: a very short introduction (2012).