Dr. Francisco Taveira Pinto is a Full Professor of the Civil Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Director of the Hydraulics Water Resources & Environment Division of DEC-FEUP and Member of the board of Water Resources Institute. Organiser of several international conferences and head of the Research Group of Sea Energy. He is also the Chairman of the Coastal and Maritime Committee of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) and International Secretary of the European Union for Coastal Conservation (EUCC-The Coastal Union). With more than 140 publications, 73 of them at international journals, his research expertise is in the field of coastal and marine engineering, with special focus on the marine renewable energy sector over the last years. He has participated in the development of wave energy conversion technologies such as Waveroler, WaveCat, CECO or CorPower and in several marine renewable energy resource assessments. Within the Civil Engineering Doctoral Programme and the Integrated Master of Civil Engineering, he has supervised 7 PhD Theses and 42 Master Thesis theses.

Dr. Paulo Rosa Santos is invited Assistant Prof. in the Department of Civil Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) and Researcher in the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), Portugal. He completed his PhD in Civil Engineering in 2010. His present main research field is the application of physical and numerical modelling to the study of offshore, port and coastal related issues, and has a special interest in marine renewables energies. In the last 15 years, he collaborated in more than 40 research and development projects and consultancy studies. He is author of more than 80 papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and conference proceedings. Member of the evaluation committee of 42 M.Sc dissertations and 9 Ph.D thesis. Supervisor or co-supervisor of 25 finished M.Sc. Dissertations, most of them in the field of ocean energy.  Supervisor of 3 Ph.D thesis and co-supervisor of 2. Member of the Board of the Portuguese Water Resources Association - North Branch. Associated Editor of JICZM - The Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Associated Director of the Journal Recursos Hídricos. Regular reviewer of 11 international indexed journals. Presently he is involved in the following R&D projects:  SE@PORTS – Sustainable Energy at Sea PORTS (OCEANERA-NET); OPWEC – Optimization of Wave Energy Converters (FCT); HYDRALAB+ (H2020); ORACLE - Offshore Risk Analysis for Climate Changes and Lifetime Extension (SAICT); and I.nano.WEC – Innovative nano-technology for Wave Energy Conversion (Fundo Azul). In the last 8 years, he taught at FEUP in 3 Integrated Master Courses (Civil Eng., Environmental Eng. and Chemical Eng.) and in the Doctoral Programme in Civil Engineering a wide range or Curricular Units.

Dr. Tiago Fazeres Ferradosa is a doctorate researcher at Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto and researcher in the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR). Tiago is currently responsible for the R&D unit Offshore Structures & Foundations at the Research Group of Hydraulic Structures and Marine Energy. Tiago has been a visiting MSc. researcher at University College London and developed his PhD thesis on the topic of reliability analysis of optimised scour protections for offshore foundations. He is also involved in the several R&D projects related to offshore engineering and marine renewable energy research, such as MARINET proposal 61; HYDRALAB+ (Proteus proposal); ORACLE; and I.nano.WEC. He performs co-supervision activities of master degree students in civil engineering at the University of Porto and has been responsible for the organisation of more than 15 conferences, courses, symposia and other scientific and professional events. He is the editor of the IAHR Newsflash Europe, member of the editorial panel in 4 international peer-reviewed journals, Guest Editor of SI in Renewable Energy (Elsevier) and reviewer in other 14 international peer-reviewed journals. Tiago is the author of several scientific peer-reviewed publications and organiser of the IOSD course series. He was President of the IAHR Portugal Young Professionals Network, the Coordinator of the Young Professionals of the Portuguese Association of Water Resources and elected member of the Monitoring Committee of the Civil Engineering Doctoral Program between 2016 and 2018. He is also the Business Development Manager at the IT engineering company SimpleAxis. He is the Portuguese apointed member of the Technical Committee 213 - Scour and Erosion. Dr. Tiago is also the awarded researcher of the APRH best PhD thesis of 2018/2019.

Luciana das Neves is a doctor in civil engineering specialised in coastal resilience, climate change adaptation and mitigation and creating adaptive systems for managing evolving water-related risks at different spatial and temporal scales. Her current research focuses on nature-based solutions for coastal and flood protection, (adaptive) coastal management and planning, and climate change adaptation. Climate Resilience Analysis Frameworks, including model-based adaptation pathways, fast integrated numerical models, visualisation of system performance over the exposure space, and cost analysis are key tools in her research. Current studies focus on West Africa Coastal Areas, Belgium, Black Sea region and Portugal. Luciana is leading the research programme on nature-based solutions in NEMAR, is a Senior Engineer at the climate change, adaptation and management team from IMDC nv – Belgium, and has acted as an Expert Reviewer for the Fourth and the Fifth Assessment Reports of the IPCC. A Portuguese national, Luciana is a graduate of the University of Porto, where she stays as a Guest Assistant Professor in the fields of urban hydraulics and fluid mechanics.

Dr. Gianmaria Giannini is a doctor in naval architecture, ocean and marine engineering, specialized on the development offshore renewable energy technologies. His main research interests are in the development of small ocean-going vessels, tidal and wave energy devices advancements. His research within the offshore renewable energy area started during is MSc studies held at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland where he also completed his PhD focusing on wave energy technology. His doctoral studies concentrated on offshore moored wave energy converters numerical modelling and experimental tests. He worked in a Scottish tidal energy company and in an Italian engineering-focused renewable energy private consortium, in both circumstances he contributed to the development of industry-based research projects on various tidal and wave energy devices. He is now a researcher at FEUP involved in the OPWEC project and his work regards developing an offshore version of the CECO wave energy converter.

Ph.D. Victor Ramos research focuses on the field of marine renewable energy (wave and tidal stream energy), dealing with some crucial aspects such as: resource, characterisation, performance of different technologies of energy converters (tidal and wave energy converters) and the potential impacts on the marine environment (wave climate, transient and residual estuarine dynamics, sediment transport and turbulence conditions).

MSc. Andreia Moreira is a PhD researcher at UPorto (Portugal), graduated from the same institution. She developed her master thesis project in entrepreneurial environment, on the topic of feasibility analysis of the construction of small and medium hydropower plants. From 2012 to 2015 she was dedicated to the Scourcoast project, in which she developed research on sustainable coastal protection techniques. She started conducting her doctoral studies in 2015, supported by a PhD scholarship granted by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. Since then, she has been developing her work on the adaptation and application of a numerical code, based on a weakly compressible formulation of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics method, to simulate spillway flows. During her PhD research, she has been collaborating with the Saint-Venant Hydraulics Laboratory (LHSV), in France. Her research interests are towards the understanding of turbulent high-speed flows, dam safety and the development of numerical tools to spillway risk assessment and mitigation.

MSc. Sara Oliveira Pinto is a Senior Researcher in Renewable Energy at Equinor and a PhD researcher at UPorto (Portugal), where she graduated with a Masters developed in collaboration with Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) and Consulmar, on the topic of perforated vertical harbour structures: design and experimental evaluation. Sara has been working in the Oil & Gas sector as a Subsea Engineer focusing in major capital projects and currently while still at Equinor, as a Senior Researcher in Renewable Energy, working mainly with solar energy, as a technical advisor to solar energy projects, performing market research of new & niche solar energy solutions, mainly within floating solar and in solutions & strategies for operation and maintenance of utility-scale solar parks. During her work she has collaborated with various research entities such as MIT Energy Initiative (MITei), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Institutt for energiteknikk (IFE) and Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) with a main focus as radical innovation within the renewable energy domain. She is currently undertkaing her doctoral studies on the topic of wave energy converters, identifying a niche market enabler to launch commercial feasibility of the wave energy sector, and at a later stage proposing a novel hybrid wave energy converter.

MSc. Daniel Clemente is a PhD researcher at UPorto (Portugal), who also graduated from the same institution, and develops his research on marine renewable energies (MRE) since his master thesis study of a novel wave energy concept based on multipurpose offshore floating platforms. He started his doctoral studies in 2017 alongside the Se@Ports research project, aimed at the development of hybrid wave energy converter solutions for the ports of Leixões and Las Palmas. His research, thus far, has included 2D and 3D physical modelling of offshore and nearshore wave energy converters in the SHRHA's wave basin, as well as numerical modelling of these devices through the application of programs such as ANSYS Aqwa, OpenFOAM and SWAN. In 2018, he was selected for a collaboration with the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) as a part of the IACOBUS exchange program. His research interests focus on the development of MRE, its potential applications and beneficial synergies with other technologies and fields, such as aquaculture and coastal protection.

MSc. Tomás Cabral is a researcher at UPorto (Portugal), who graduated from the same institution. He developed his master thesis project in entrepreneurial environment, on the topic of wave energy converters. His master thesis project, which involved 2D physical modelling of a hybrid wave energy converter in the SHRHA's wave basin, was developed in the SE@PORTS research project, aimed at the development of hybrid wave energy converter solutions for the ports of Leixões and Las Palmas. After graduating, he continued as a research fellow in the SE@PORTS project and is currently developing his research on the project. His research interests are towards the development of MRE (Marine Renewable Energy), and its integration with offshore and coastal protection structures.

MSc. Beatriz Queirós is a PhD researcher at UPorto (Portugal), who graduated from the same institution. She developed her master thesis project in entrepreneurial environment, on the topic of SPH application to reproduce a real rubble-mound breakwater - the Port of Leixões Northern breakwater, Portugal. After graduating, from 2016 to 2018, she was working as a design engineer in a hydraulic company, where she consolidated her knowledge in water supply systems, as well as in wastewater systems. In addition, she had the opportunity to contact and use an extensive set of numerical tools on various projects. She started conducting her doctoral studies in 2018, supported by a PhD scholarship granted by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, and she is currently developing her PhD research work, which involves the study of rubble-mound structures, using advanced physical modelling techniques and also advanced numerical modelling tools, including the application of programs such as DualSPHysics. Her research interests are towards the comprehensive understanding of complex phenomena related to the interaction between incident waves and rubble.mound breakwaters and also the validation and improvement of the SPH DualSPHysics model with regard to the simulation of wave run-up and overtopping.

Filipe is a Chartered Coastal Scientist/Engineer with over 15 years’ experience working in Europe, South America, Africa and the Middle East on a variety of ocean, coastal and port engineering projects. Previous experience in consultancy includes planning, design and tender preparation for intakes and outfalls, small harbours and marinas, ports, LNG and crude oil terminals, coastal structures, artificial islands, navigation and mooring studies, numerical modelling of coastal processes and field data collection. Filipe worked for the government and private sectors in both engineering and research projects. He is currently working at the American University of Sharjah where he conducts research in the fields of ocean and coastal engineering.

João Ricardo De Sá Chambel is a researcher at FEUP, who graduated from the same institution. He developed a master thesis project on the topic of Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations. After graduating, he continued as a research fellow first at the IHRH - Hydraulics and Water Resources Institute, where he had the opportunity to participate in the study "Estudo do Desvio do Rio de Vila e Obras Acessórias associadas à Construção da Estação de Metro da Praça da Liberdade, no Porto" to the Portuguese company Metro do Porto. Then he ingressed as a research fellow in the project ORACLE - Offshore Risk Analysis for Climate Change and Lifetime Extension of offshore foundations (POCI - 01 - 0145 - FEDER - 032170), where he develops his work on offshore foundations, risk and reliability analysis, scour phenomena, sea climate changes and erosion phenomena. He is the co-author of scientific peer-reviewed publications in international journals where he was privileged to work, publish and learn from recognized authors and known engineers in his field, namely with: Francisco Taveira Pinto (FEUP), Tiago Ferradosa (FEUP), Paulo Santos (FEUP) e Mario Welzel (TU Braunschweig). Throughout his scientific activities, João Chambel had the privilege to be part of the scientific and organizing committee, as a co-organiser and supervised by Doctor Tiago Ferradosa, of the 2nd International Offshore Structures Design Course - edition of 2019. He also had the privilege to be peer-reviewer in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Maritime Engineering (1751-7737). He tutored, as a monitor, in the curricular unit Projeto FEUP at FEUP. His interests are extended to Offshore Structures and Foundations, Marine Renewable Energy, Scour and Scour Protections, Hydraulics, Ports and Coastal Erosion.

Luiz Paulo Pinto Ferreira holds a Master degree in Civil Engineering from the UPorto, a Mastère Spécialisé in Ouvrages Maritimes‎ et Portuaire from ESITC Caen, MBA in Project Management from FRB|Devry Brasil, PMP-PMI certificated and a bachelor degree in Civil Engineering Universidade Federal da Bahia. He is currenlty a PhD student at UPorto – Faculty of Engineering in the fields of hydraulic engineering. He is an experienced project manager having managed and carried out numerous construction projects in Brazil related maritime ports and river dredging and participated in physical modelling of coastal protection structures at Waterbowukundig Laboratorium. His research interests involve climate change adaptation, coastal dynamics, wave structure interaction and wave behaviour in very shallow waters.