Innovations in Renewable Energies Offshore

Carlos Guedes Soares is a Distinguished Professor of the Engineering School (Instituto Superior Tecnico) of the University of Lisbon and Scientific Coordinator of the Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering (CENTEC), which is a Research Centre of the University of Lisbon that is rated as "Excellent" and funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. He concluded his postgraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA in 1976, and at the Norwegian Institute of Technology of the University of Trondheim, in 1984 and has since then been at the University of Lisbon (Technical University of Lisbon until 2013). He has supervised and co-supervised more than 75 PhD students and has about 35,000 citations in the Web of Science. He has been Chair or Co-Chair of various conferences in the series of OMAE, ESREL, IMAM, ISSC, ICCGS, MARSTRUCT, MARTECH and RENEW. He has been Editor of the Reliability Engineering and Systems Reliability Journal for about 30 years, the last 10 of which as Editor-in-Chief. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Marine Science & Application and is member of the Editorial Board of more than 15 Journals. He is a Fellow of SNAME, RINA, IMarEST, ASME and the Portuguese Engineering Association (Ordem dos Engenheiros). He is also a Fellow of the Portuguese Academy of Engineering.

Shan Wang is a tenured assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), University of Lisbon. She received her PhD from the University of Lisbon in 2016, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, and her thesis was awarded a "pass with distinction and honour." Dr. Wang has supervised and co-supervised 12 master's students and 4 joint PhD students, published 84 peer-reviewed papers, and achieved an h-index of 21 with 1385 citations (Scopus). She is a member of the Editorial Board of Ocean Engineering, the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, and Marine Energy Research, and is an associate board member of the Journal of Marine Science and Application. Dr. Wang has also been a guest editor for special issues in leading journals. She has participated in organizing several international conferences, including MARTECH and OMAE, and has been actively involved in the International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore (RENEW) since 2018. She has contributed to eight funded projects, leading two FCT-funded projects on CFD simulations of floating bodies and playing key roles in EU-funded projects such as EXTREME SEAS, ELASTMOOR, ARCWIND, and NATURSEA_PV.