Dr. Annamaria di Lernia gained her PhD in Civil, Environmental, Land, Building Engineering and Chemistry from the Technical University of Bari (Italy) in 2015. Her PhD research was focused on the three-dimensional finite element numerical modelling of the seismic ground response and dynamic soil-structure interaction phenomena. Her main research interests are related to numerical modelling of geotechnical boundary value problems under both static and dynamic actions. As research assistant at the Politecnico di Bari, she is working on the advancement of the hydro-mechanical characterisation of the instability mechanisms, connected to both static and seismic actions, with reference to prototype slopes, location of slow weather-related landslide phenomena, occurring in clay slopes in the Italian Southern Apennines. In addition, she is working on the numerical simulation of the seismic wave propagation processes occurring in a prototype slope location of deep landslide mechanism, which could be reactivated by earthquakes.