Lidija Zdravković is a Professor of Computational Geomechanics and Head of Geotechnics in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Imperial College London. Her research involves the use of the finite element method in geotechnical engineering, the study of the mechanical behavior of soil and rock in engineering applications. She is a coauthor of the two-volume textbook Finite Element Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering and over 100 academic papers. She was a member of the Geotechnique Advisory Panel between 2003 and 2006, and has been an Editorial Board member for Computers and Geotechnics since 2010. She is also a UK representative and a core member of the Technical Committee (TC) 103 for numerical analysis, under the auspices of the ISSMGE and has served on the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) Executive Committee from 2010 to 2013.

Zdravković and her coauthors David M. Potts and David W. Hight were the 2002 recipients of the Telford Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Zdravković was the 2013 Géotechnique Lecturer and the 2024 Rankine Lecturer of the British Geotechnical Association.

Tentative title of the Lecture: Numerical simulation of permeability for tunnels in decomposed granite (to be confirmed by the author)