Dr. Mohamed Fredj is currently a Professor at the Mining and Geology Department, Faculty of Technology, Abderramane Mira University, Bejaia, Algeria. He obtained his Mining Engineer in 2006, his MSc degree in 2012 and his PhD in 2019 from the Badji Mokhtar Annaba University, Algeria. His main research focuses on Mining Engineering, Drilling and Blasting, Geotechnical Engineering and Numerical modelling. He has published more than 23 technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings, and these works received more citations recorded in Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. He is the principal investigator of 1 research project and the co-investigator of 3 research projects. He serves as the editorial board member of several journals (Earth Science, Journal of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering) and a regular reviewer of more than 20 peer-reviewed international journals and Conferences.