Claudia Vitone obtained her PhD in Geotechnical Engineering at the Politecnico di Bari. She has been Research Fellow at Laboratoire 3SR - Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France) and Visiting Researcher at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) and ETH-Zurich (Switzerland). She qualified in France as Maître the Conférence and she became Associate Professor in Geotechnics at the Politecnico di Bari. Since 2018 she is Deputy Director of ALERT-Geomaterials and, since 2019, she is Rector's Delegate for Orientation. She is now full professor of Geotechnics. In 2020 she was elected in the Steering Committee of the Italian Geotechnical Association. She is author of about 110 scientific papers, including 45 articles in journals. She has delivered about 30 invited and keynote presentations at conferences and seminars worldwide. She is member of the Editorial Board of leading journals in the field, such as the Géotechnique and Environmental Geotechnics. She filed as inventor a joint patent (Politecnico di Bari and ETH-Zurich) on the mechanical treatment of marine clays based on the reuse of biowaste. She is currently PI of the EU LIFE Project GREENLIFE4SEAS entailing the development of innovative techniques for the chemo-mechanical treatments of dredged marine sediments for their reuse. Among the awards, it is worth of mention the Best paper Prize for the article “ Sustainable environmental geotechnics practices for a green economy” published in Environmental Geotechnics.