Denis Allard obtained his MSc and PhD in Geostatistics from the Ecole des Mines de Paris, in Fontainebleau, France. In 1996 he joined the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Avignon, France. From 2005 to 2011 he has been the head of the BioSP (Biostatistics and Spatial Processes) group. His research covers a wide range of topics in geostatistics and spatial statistics for modeling and analyzing spatio-temporal data, with applications in geosciences, environment and climate sciences. From 2023 to 2027, he is the Principal Investigator of the Geolearning Chair, a collaborative project between BioSP and the Geostatistics team at Ecole des Mines de Paris. He is currently associate editor for Spatial Statistics.
Inga Berre is professor at the Department of Mathematics and director of the Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics (CSD) at the University of Bergen. Her expertise lies in mathematical modeling, partial differential equations, and numerical methods, with a focus on simulating thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical processes in geothermal systems and fault reactivation induced by subsurface injection and production. She leads the ERC Consolidator Grant project "Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of Process-Structure Interaction in Fractured Geothermal Systems" (MaPSI, 2021-2026). In 2023, she was appointed as the Argyris Visiting Professor at the SimTech Cluster of Excellence, University of Stuttgart.
Didier Clouteau is Distinguished Professor at University of Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec and chairs the Department of Mechanics, Energetics and Bio-chemical Eng. He graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris, INP Grenoble. He worked for Tractebel Engineering, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique in France and Mahindra University in India. His research interests are focused on earthquake engineering, numerical methods and machine learning in mechanics. He has supervised more than 20 PhD theses, authored 80+ scientific papers.
Bernd Flemisch is a professor for simulation technology at the Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems of the University of Stuttgart. His expertise is on computational modeling of coupled flow and transport processes in and around porous media, including discretization methods, solution approaches, implementation in form of research software, validation and benchmarking. He is coordinating the development of the open-source simulator DuMux and engaged in several research alliances such as the Cluster of Excellence "Data-integrated Simulation Science (SimTech)" and the Collaborative Research Center "Interface-Driven Multi-Field Processes in Porous Media (SFB 1313)".
Taras Gerya is a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich) working in the field of numerical modelling of geodynamic and planetary processes. He earned a Ph.D. in petrology from Moscow State University in 1990 and a habilitation in geodynamics from ETH-Zurich in 2008. His recent research interests include modelling of plate tectonic processes, and evolution and habitability of terrestrial planets. He was made AGU Fellow in 2019 and received EGU Augustus Love Medal in 2024.
Cecilia Stanghellini, an Italian physicist with a Dutch PhD in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has been working at Wageningen University and Research Centre (the Netherlands) for almost 40 years, dealing with the resource use and management of greenhouses in wet and dry climates. Major topics are: greenhouse climate management; crop yield and resource use efficiency; economy and environmental impact of protected cultivation. She is [co]author of more than 300 publications including a recent textbook on greenhouse technology. She has lead several large international projects, financed by the European Union, governments and large companies in Europe, Latin America, and Africa on the topic of efficient greenhouse vegetable production and capacity building. She has been invited as lecturer in five continents.