Richard Wan is Professor with the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada. He sits on the Editorial Board of several international journals and was the Vice-Chair of the TC103 (Numerical Methods) of the ISSMGE from 2009-2017.

François Nicot is Research Professor and the head of the Geomechanics group at IRSTEA (National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture), Grenoble, France. He is the Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering.

Félix Darve is Professor Emeritus at the University of Grenoble-Alpes, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France. He is the Editor in Chief of the International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics.