Erik Eberhardt is a professor and the director of the geological engineering program at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan​ and past associate director of the Rio Tinto Centre for Underground Mine Construction​. He is currently helping to lead the International Caving Research Network (ICaRN), a research group that specializes in the integration of geology, geotechnical monitoring, experimental data and numerical modelling to better understand complex rock mass responses to mining and to formulate means to mitigate these and reduce risk.