Biographies of the guest editors

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Karl E. Butler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geology and Director of the Geological Engineering Program at the University of New Brunswick. He holds a BSc (1987) from Queen’s University, as well as MSc (1991) and PhD (1996) degrees in Geophysics from the University of British Columbia. From 1987 to 1989 he was employed in oil exploration with Chevron Canada Resources. His postdoctoral experience, prior to joining UNB in 1999, included electromagnetic modelling research at Lamontagne Geophysics Ltd and a study of electromagnetic effects associated with seismicity in mines carried out as a NSERC Industrial Research Fellow at Engineering Seismology Group Inc. His research interests include seismoelectric and electrical methods and, more generally, novel applications of high-resolution geophysics in hydrogeology, engineering and geological exploration. Luigi Sambuelli is Associate Professor of Applied Geophysics at the Politecnico di Torino. He holds an MSc in Mining (1982) from the Politecnico di Torino. From 1992 to 1995 he was Associate Professor in Applied Geophysics at the Universita di Cagliari. He was the scientific leader of the research ‘Experiments in the High-Frequency Georadar Band (0.9–2.5 GHz) for the Analysis of Ancient Historical Buildings’ within the ‘Cultural Heritage’ project of CNR and scientifically responsible for the European project ‘Holographic Ground Probing Radar System’. He has been invited lecturer at the International School of Applied Geophysics at the ‘Ettore Majorana’ Centre in Erice (Sicily) at the 8th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics in Aveiro, Portugal and at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA). Since 1997 he has been a member of EEGS and since 1988 he has been on the Editorial Board of European Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics. From 2007 he has been a member of SEG and he is associate editor of Near Surface Geophysics. He is owner of one Italian patent and co-owner of two international patents. His main interests are the applications of geophysics to very small scales (non-destructive testing), to archaeology, tunnelling, geotechnics, the environment and hydrogeology.