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Philippe AGARD, Professor, Paris-Sorbonne University, France 

Samuel ANGIBOUST, Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France 

Samuel Angiboust is professor of petrology at ENS Lyon. His research focuses on the deep dynamics of subduction zones, the role of water on tectonic processes and the recording of ancient seismic events in the earth's crust and mantle. He is the author of numerous scientific publications on the dynamics of subduction zones and teaches tectonics, petrology and field geology from undergraduate level to doctorate level.

Daniele CASTELLI, Professor, Torino University, Italy 

Christian CHOPIN, Director of Research Emeritus, ENS de Paris, France 

Cristiano FERRARIS, Professor, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris, France 

Gaston GODARD, Professor Emeritus, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université de Paris, France

Michel GREGOIRE, Director of Research, CNRS, France

Violaine SAUTTER, Director of Research, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris, France

 David SMITH, Professor Emeritus, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle Paris, France

David C. SMITH studied eclogites enclosed as lenses in gneisses in Norway for his Ph.D. in Aberdeen. In 1978 he proposed peak pressures up to 4.5 GPa for OPx eclogites; in 1983 he discovered coesite, the first in the Caledonides, following Christian Chopin's coesite in the Italian Alps. These discoveries in two large crustal terranes thus set in motion a new concept: Ultra-High Pressure Metamorphism. In 1980, David took a Professorship at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, becoming an Emeritus Professor in Mineralogy in 2012. In 1982, he co-founded the First IEC in France.

Philippe YAMATO, Professor, Rennes 1 University, France

Philippe Yamato is Professor in Tectonics at Geosciences Rennes (Université de Rennes 1). His current scientific activities mainly focus on the understanding of rock deformation at different scales both in space and time, and especially in high pressure - low temperature conditions. One of his main activity is to quantify the physical processes occurring in subduction zones by using numerical models constrained a best by data from field geology and metamorphic petrology.