Enrique Romero is a Full Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and Head of the Geotechnical Laboratory at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) and a Full Research Professor in the Geomechanics Group at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Spain). His research mainly focuses on theoretical and experimental studies of multi-physics and multi-scale processes of geomaterials. His work has been primarily funded through 50+ research projects by different agencies for managing radioactive waste disposal (Belgium, Switzerland, France, Spain, and Japan) over the last 20 years. He is the author of 350+ scientific papers (70+ journal papers dealing with experimental soil mechanics with more than ten citations in Scopus), a member of editorial boards of several international journals, and co-editor of the books 'Advanced Experimental Unsaturated Soil Mechanics' (2005) and 'Laboratory and Field Testing of Unsaturated Soils' (2009). Among recent awards, he has been '2nd European Distinguished Lecturer on Unsaturated Soils TC 106 ISSMGE' (2020). He co-chaired the '4th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils' held in Lisbon in 2020 and was State-of-the-Art Lecturer on 'Unsaturated Soils' at ICSMGE 2022 in Sydney. He has been elected (January 2022) as chair of TC 106 ISSMGE of Unsaturated Soils. He has been recently invited as keynote lecturer in UNSAT2023 (Milos, May 2023), IS-PORTO2023 (Porto, September 2023), UNSAT-WASTE2023 (Shanghai, September 2023) and 5th ISEG Intermediate Symposium (Nanjing, November 2024).