Dr. Merita Tafili is a geotechnical engineer born in Montenegro, Ulcinj. She completed her Bachelor, Master and PhD at Karlsruhe University of Technology in Germany and is currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany. Despite this, she works as a leading engineer at the Dr.-Ing. Orth GmbH in Germany. Her work focuses on the development of constitutive models and conducting laboratory tests, contributing to the understanding of the mechanical behaviour of soils and its numerical modelling.