Maria Ferentinou，英国利物浦约翰摩尔大学（LJMU）土木工程与建成环境学院岩土工程副教授，隶属于建筑环境与可持续技术研究所（BEST）。她拥有希腊帕特雷大学理学学士学位和雅典国立技术大学（NTUA）工程地质博士学位，曾任南非约翰内斯堡大学副教授兼系主任、夸祖鲁-纳塔尔大学岩石工程讲师。Ferentinou博士长期从事数据驱动岩土工程（data-centric geotechnics）研究，自2001年起率先将人工神经网络引入边坡稳定性评价，是该方向的早期开拓者之一；研究涵盖滑坡易发性制图与地质灾害风险评估、岩石工程系统、非饱和土与地面变形监测等。近年来，她致力于研发遥感与光纤传感相结合的地质工程监测预警技术，利用光纤布拉格光栅（FBG）开展边坡与天坑演化监测，并推动适应气候变化影响的岩土基础设施韧性评价与设计方法。她在《Engineering Geology》《Computers and Geotechnics》《Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment》等国际权威期刊发表论文60余篇，其神经网络边坡稳定性预测的开创性论文被引逾350次。她现任《Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment》《Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology》《Journal of Machine Learning and Data Science in Geotechnics》等期刊编委，并曾代表南非担任国际土力学与岩土工程学会（ISSMGE）热带土与残积土技术委员会（TC107）委员。她是英国特许地质学家（CGeol）、伦敦地质学会会士（FGS）、英国土木工程师协会（ICE）准会员及南非注册自然科学专业科学家。
Dr. Maria Ferentinou is a associate professor in Geotechnics at the School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK, affiliated with the BEST (Built Environment and Sustainable Technologies) Research Institute. She holds a BSc degree from the University of Patras, Greece, and a PhD in Engineering Geology from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Before joining LJMU, she served as Associate Professor and Head of Department at the University of Johannesburg, and as a Lecturer in Rock Engineering at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Dr. Ferentinou has been engaged in data-centric geotechnics since the early 2000s and pioneered the application of artificial neural networks to slope stability assessment, with her seminal work cited more than 350 times. Her research spans landslide susceptibility mapping, geohazard risk assessment, rock engineering systems, and unsaturated soils and ground deformation monitoring. In recent years, she has devoted her efforts to geohazard monitoring and early warning technologies integrating remote sensing and fiber optic sensing, including FBG-based monitoring of slope instability and sinkhole evolution, and to climate-resilient assessment and design of geotechnical infrastructure. She has published more than 60 papers in leading international journals such as Engineering Geology, Computers and Geotechnics, and Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. She serves on the editorial boards of the Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, and the Journal of Machine Learning and Data Science in Geotechnics, and previously represented South Africa on the ISSMGE Technical Committee TC107 on Tropical and Residual Soils. She is a Chartered Geologist (CGeol) and a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), and a registered Professional Natural Scientist in South Africa.