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Dr. Susana Lopez-Querol joined University College London in 2015 as an Associate Professor in Geotechnical Engineering. She obtained her MEng in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid and her PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Castilla-La Mancha. Her academic career began in Spain, where she held research and teaching positions including postdoctoral roles at Imperial College London and CETA (CEDEX, Spain). Her research focuses primarily on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, with current interests in the constitutive behaviour of sandy soils under cyclic loading, both experimentally and numerically, as well as the effects of dynamic loading on offshore foundations and ground improvement techniques. She has supervised ten PhD students to completion and contributed to numerous research projects. Dr. Lopez-Querol serves on the editorial boards of leading journals in Geotechnical Engineering, including those published by Elsevier, Springer, and ASCE.