Committee

ISTVS 2026 | October 11-15, 2026 | Pretoria, South Africa

Local Organizing committee

• Dr. Schalk Els | Conference Chair, Deputy General Secretary for Europe-Africa, 2024 Bekker-Reece-Radforth Award Recipient, Editor for Journal of Terramechanics

• Dr. Herman Hamersma | Conference Co-Chair

• Dr. Cor-Jacques Kat | Program Committee

• Glenn Guthrie | Program Committee

• Massimo Martelli | ISTVS General Secretary

• Andries Peenze | ISTVS Student competition coordinator

• Dr. Lutz Richter | ISTVS President

Conference Scientific Committee

• Massimo Martelli (Italy)

• Lutz Richter (Germany)

• Enrico Galvagno (Italy)

• Herman Hamersma (South Africa)

• Cor-Jacques Kat (South Africa)

• Andries Peenze (South Africa)

• Carl Becker (South Africa)

• Tokologo Komana (South Africa)

• Kersti Vennik (Estonia)

• Valentin Ivanov (Germany)

• Junya Yamakawa (Japan)

• Taizo Kobayashi (Japan)

• Genya Ishigami (Japan)

• Corina Sandu (USA)

• Sally Shoop (USA)

• Mike Parker (USA)

• Henry Hodges (USA)

• Brad Hansen (USA)

• Susan Frankenstein (USA)

• Heidi Howard (USA)

• Zeinab El-Sayegh (Canada)

• Jozsef Kovecses (Canada)

Conference Website Team

• Glenn Guthrie