Prof. Iulia-Consuela Prodan joined us from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (TUCN), Romania, and has spent her time developing activities related to the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the contribution of Augustin Coulomb to the foundation of soil mechanics. She graduated with an engineering BSc, and MSc degree in civil engineering in 2009 from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and after completing her Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering (2012) at the same university, she held a position of Researcher in our group in 2014-2015, where she focused her activities on experimental analysis of soil-concrete interface thermo-mechanical behavior in unsaturated conditions. She is co-editor of two books on Soil Mechanics (in Romanian) and her research activities focus mainly on the experimental and numerical analysis of thermal and thermo-mechanical behavior of soils and soil-concrete interface, as well as the thermal and thermo-mechanical behavior of energy geostructures.