Paolo Farina, PhD Geosciences, M.Sc Engineering Geology, Chartered Engineering Geologist. Currently managing Geoapp, a service and consultancy company he founded in 2015 focused on geotechnical risk assessment for mining, natural hazards and infrastructure projects. His specialties are monitoring technologies, early warning systems and risk assessment, with a focus on integrated data analysis and interpretation. He is a member of geotechnical review boards of several large open pits mines in the US, Chile and Peru, providing independent expert oversight and advice regarding geotechnical risk. He has been involved in 2019, following the collapse of the Brumadinho tailings dam, to support, as independent consultant, the Panel of International Technical Experts in the review and interpretation of the monitoring data collected before the collapse, in the framework of the technical investigations on the root causes of the collapse. From 2007 to 2015 he worked for IDS, where he created and managed since 2010 the Mining Business Unit leading to the successful introduction of a new SAR based radar into the mining industry. From 2003 to 2007, he worked as assistant professor of engineering geology at the University of Firenze working as consultant for the Italian Civil Protection Department on more than 20 projects. He was visiting scientist at MIT, US, in 2004-2005. His scientific work has around 3.000 citations and more than 60 scientific publications on international peer reviewed journals on engineering geological topics.