Claudia Vitone obtained her PhD in Geotechnical Engineering at the Politecnico di Bari in 2005. 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 in 2011 and she became Associate Professor in Geotechnics at the Politecnico di Bari in 2016. Since 2018 she is Deputy Director of the European Alliance and member of the Steering Bureau of Laboratories in Europe for Education, Research and Technology (ALERT-Geomaterials) and, since 2019, she is Rector's Delegate for Orientation. In 2020, she qualified as full professor of Geotechnics and became full professor in 2023. In 2020 she was elected in the Steering Committee of the Italian Geotechnical Association (AGI). She is author of about 110 scientific papers, including 45 articles in journals and about 60 publications in books and conference proceedings. She has delivered about 30 invited and keynote presentations at conferences and seminars worldwide, including at international doctoral schools. She is member of the Editorial Board of leading journals in the field, such as the Géotechnique and Environmental Geotechnics. She filed as inventor four joint patents (Politecnico di Bari and ETH-Zurich) on the mechanical treatment of marine clays based on the reuse of biowaste. She is PI of the EU Research Project GREENLIFE4SEAS (https://greenlife4seas.poliba.it/ ) 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, by the Institution of Civil Engineers in London (UK). Her research was spotted in several media articles in Italian newspapers (La Repubblica, Sole24Ore) and television interviews (Geo, Unomattina, TG3).