Professor Rachel Abercrombie has been at Boston University for over 20 years, previously working in California and New Zealand after completing her Ph.D. in the United Kingdom. She has studied earthquakes over a wide range of magnitudes and frequencies in many tectonic environments. In particular, her research has focused on obtaining the reliable observations needed to constrain earthquake scaling, nucleation and rupture dynamics. She was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2020, and is currently President-Elect of the AGU Seismology Section. Dr. Abercrombie is also an Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth.

He received his Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from Northwestern University, USA in 1977. He was promoted to full Professorship in 1988 in Istanbul Technical University. He moved to Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute of Bogaziçi University in 2002. Since March 2012, he is professor in the Civil Engineering Department of Ozyegin University.
He has been the Secretary General of European Association for Earthquake Engineering during 1994-2014 and President during 2014-2018, and currently Honorary Member of EAEE since 2022.
He has been the Editor in Chief of the Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering and the book series on “Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering” by Springer since 2002.
His main areas of interest are microzonation methodologies, effects of geotechnical factors on earthquake damage, liquefaction, cyclic behaviour of clays and sands, constitutive soil models.

Eleftheria E. Papadimitriou, a geologist and seismologist with a deep commitment to advancing the field of geophysics. With a Bachelor's degree in Geology and a Ph.D. specializing in Seismology, her career has been dedicated to furthering our understanding of earthquakes and seismic activity. Fluent in Greek, English, French, and Russian, she has fostered international collaborations and established connections with approximately 55 foreign institutions.
She has actively engaged in teaching seismology to undergraduate and postgraduate students, nurturing their passion for geophysics, mentoring and guiding the theses of undergraduate, master's, and Ph.D. students.
She is also a member of eight scientific societies and have actively contributed to 14 special committees and councils. In recognition of her dedication to advancing scientific knowledge, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of Acta Geophysica, a prestigious publication managed by the Polish Academy of Sciences and Springer, for seven years. Additionally, she holds the position of Associate Editor in five scientific peer-reviewed journals.
She also actively paricipated in more than 100 scientific meetings, made significant contributions to over 65 research projects, assuming scientific responsibility for 18 of them. With over 240 publications and more than 2250 citations (excluding self citaions of all authors), her research has made a lasting impact on the field of geophysics.
She also holds leadership positions, including serving on boards of directors and as the Head of the Department and Laboratory of Geophysics at the School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Helle Pedersen is a Danish seismologist who specialises in seismic imaging of the Earth’s crust and upper mantle. She has a Master’s degree in geophysics from the University of Århus in Denmark, a French Engineering degree in geophysics from University of Strasbourg and a PhD in Seismology from the University of Grenoble. Presently she is a senior professor at the University of Grenoble Alps.
She initially worked on 2D and 3D modelling of seismic wavefields, and soon oriented her work towards seismic surface waves and later towards analysis of seismic noise. In all of her work she addresses how understanding seismic wave propagation and complex wavefields may impact imaging techniques, and she uses this knowledge to build new imaging strategies.
In parallel with this work, she was the initial Director of the French Seismic and Geodetic network, and has been involved in EPOS in leading roles since 2006. She is also scientific manager of the national French EIDA node, and is involved in activities related to distribution of seismological data both at national, European and worldwide level.

Philippe Jousset is a volcano-geophysicist working permanently at GFZ Potsdam since 2012. He graduated from the National Engineering School of Geology (ESNG, Nancy) in 1990 and obtained a M.Sc. (1992) on anisotropy determination by S-wave splitting at the Piton de la Fournaise volcano (La Réunion) and a Ph.D. (1996) at the Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP) with a focus on understanding mass transfer in volcanoes, with application to the Merapi volcano (Indonesia). During a post-doc (1996-1998) at Hokkaido University (Japan), he carried out mass transfer and deformation studies on Usu and Komagatake volcanoes. As research fellow at the School of Mines of Paris (1998-2000), he studied marine 3D seismic acquisition footprints in Kirchhoff pre-stack depth migration, in collaboration with the oil and gas industry. At the Leeds University (2000-2023), he modelled long-period volcanic earthquakes from Montserrat volcano (West Indies) by developing a 2D and later a 3D code of wave propagation in complex media including topography. In 2003, he took up a permanent position at the Geological Survey of France (BRGM), where he was able to diversify his volcanology research into geothermal applications. He deployed networks of broadband seismometers in different environments: 1. Guadeloupe (West Indies) and Hengill (Iceland), to (try to) detect long-period earthquakes in exploited geothermal systems, where he built seismic tomography models; 2. in a mining environment (Cerville, Eastern France), where he remotely detected micro-seismicity from a large remote earthquake; 3. on Mount Merapi (Indonesia), where he experienced the 2010 "100-year" eruption. He accepted then to move for temporal position at the GFZ to deploy large networks of broad-band seismometers in Wayang Windu (Indonesia) and Reykjanes Peninsula (Iceland); in the latter, he investigated fibre optic sensing as a new tool for seismology. In Italy, at Etna volcano, he initiated research for studying volcanic activity using fibre optic sensing. From 2019 to 2023, he was the President of the Seismology Division at the European Geoscience Union.