Olavo Francisco dos Santos Junior is a Full Professor assigned to the Department of Civil Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), working in Geotechnics. He has worked at UFRN since 1993. He works in the Postgraduate Program in Civil Engineering and the Undergraduate Courses in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering. He participates in the Research of Geotechnics, Land Use, and Environment. He holds an M.Sc. in Geotechnics from the University of Sao Paulo Sao Carlos School of Engineering and a Ph.D. in Geotechnics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Then, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia, the Federal University of Pernambuco, and Glasgow Caledonian University. Before his current role, he was a Professor at the São Paulo State University. His research interests include Theoretical and Experimental Soil Mechanics, Earthworks and Coastal Protection, and Slope Stability and Retaining Structures.