Dr. Ivan Gratchev is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering & Built Environment, Griffith University, Australia. He obtained his B.Sc. in Engineering Geology from Moscow State University, Russia in 1997, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Kyoto University, Japan in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tokyo from 2007 to 2010. He joined Griffith University as a Lecturer in 2010 and became an Associate Professor in 2023. Dr. Gratchev’s research interests are in geotechnical aspects of landslides, soil liquefaction, unsaturated soil, reactive soil, and rock mechanics. He has served as a consultant for several industry projects and collaborated with some industry and research institutions including Queensland Rail and CSIRO.