Progress in Maritime Technology and Engineering: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Maritime Technology and Engineering (MARTECH 2018), May 7-9, 2018, Lisbon, Portugal

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Carlos Guedes Soares is a professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico University of Lisbon Portugal. He received the MSc and Ocean Engineer degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge in 1976 the PhD degree from the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway in 1984 and the Doctor of Science degree from the Technical University of Lisbon Lisbon Portugal in 1991. He is also the President of the Centre for Marine Technology and Engineering (CENTEC) which is a research centre of the Instituto Superior Técnico that is recognized and funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. He has coauthored more than 400 journal papers and 600 conference papers and has been involved in more than 60 international research projects and 20 national projects.Tiago A. Santos is an assistant professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico University of Lisbon Portugal. He received the MSc degree from the University of Glasgow Scotland UK in 1999 and the PhD degree from Instituto Superior Técnico University of Lisbon Portugal in 2007. He is currently a member of the Naval Architecture Branch of the Portuguese Association of Engineers (Ordem dos Engenheiros). He has participated in a significant number of national and international research projects and has coauthored approximate 20 journal papers 20 conference papers and 30 chapters in books.