Zulfahmi Zulfahmi received his master's degree in mining engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology in 1998 and his PhD degree in geological techniques from Padjadjaran University in 2018. He worked as a senior researcher at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (1991-2021). In 2022, he moved to the National Research and Innovation Agency, The Republic of Indonesia (BRIN). His research topics mainly include geohazards and risk assessment, geomechanics, rock mechanics and engineering, environmental geology and sustainability, and numerical modeling of geotechnics.