Herminio is a senior postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft, ADMIRE research group. He works on elastic and plastic mechanical deformation modeling and simulation of rocks under cyclic loading. He has been the main developer of the open-source SafeInCave simulator which will be used in this course. Herminio holds PhD from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. His scholar page is https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dF8ecL4AAAAJ&hl=en.