Marjan started her Ph.D. in 2023, under the supervision of professor Erdrick Perez-Gonzalez and the cosupervision of professor Jean Côté, to study the definition of typical values and their corelations for practical purpose of the NorSand-aUL model parameters under various loading ans unloading conditions. Her educational background includes a Bachelor of science degree in Civil Engineering from University of Tehran, in Iran and a master of Science in Geotechnical Engineering from Tarbiat Modares University, also in Iran. For her master's project, she conducted an experimental study of the process zone in rock-like materials with pre-exisiting cracks. Furthermore, she has hands-on experience in the interpretation and the conduct of geotechnical tests as part of her job responsabilities.

Keyvan pursued his academic life at Tehran Polytechnic and the University of Guilan, both located in Iran. While he has been involved in the civil and construction industry since 2015, he also participated in several experimental and empirical projects during his undergraduate studies. His master's thesis focuses on beach profile evolution in the vicinity of seawalls. Keyvan began his PhD project in August 2023, under the supervision of Professor Jean Côté and the co-supervision of Professor Erdrick Perez-Gonzalez and it will mainly consider the risk of instabilities of construction machinery working on soft clay embankments.

Williderman began his Ph.D. in spring 2023 under the supervision of Professor Erdrick Perez-Gonzalez and the co-supervision of Professor Jean Côté. His doctoral project will focus on the numerical modelling of hydraulic dams using ambiant noise technic, natural frequency vibration approches and parametric studies to understand their dynamic response. Williderman pursued his master's studies at the Polytechnic university of Turin (Politecnico di Torino) in Italy, specializing in geotechnics and his research was centered around local sismic response. He complete his bachelor's degree at Universidad de Antioquia, in Colombia.

Marco started his Ph.D. in 2021, under the supervision of prof. Jean Côté and the co-supervisionn of prof. Jean-Marie Konrad, to study internal erosion by suffusion of Quebec tills. Previously, he worked in the management of geotechnical projects of dams in northern Brazil. Marco obtained his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) in 2016, with an exchange program at the University of Florence (Italy). He holds a master's degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on the rheological behavior of soft clays.

In the year 2012, Jahanpour completed his undergraduate studies in civil engineering and pursued his master's education in geotechnical engineering at Yasoui University, Iran. He investigated the subsurface water-table and effects of drainage in porous media as his master project. Also, he worked on machine learning methods for solving the problem of groundwater in cooperation with Shiraz University, Iran. Jahanpour began his Ph.D. studies in 2021 and he is supervised by Professor Jean Côté. As his doctoral research, he is studying the safety monitoring of embankment dams. He is using geostatistics and numerical techniques to address internal erosion in pactical problems..

After having completed his bachelor and master program at Amirkabir University of Technology (Teheran Polytechnic, Iran), Sina began his Ph.D. program in September 2019 under the supervision of professor Jean Côté. Having experience on internal erosion in embankment dams during his master (experimental experience), he decided to continue his research in this field, in particular backward erosion piping in the foundation of embankments.