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C. 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.