The 2nd International Online Conference on Marine Science and Engineering

Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom;Dr Zhiqiang Hu, Lloyds Professor of Offshore Engineering, School of Engineering, Newcastle University, UK. Zhiqiang received his Doctoral degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is the Deputy editor of journal Ocean Engineering, and member of ISSC2028 V.4 Offshore Renewable Energy Committee. His research focuses on offshore renewable energy, AI in Ocean Engineering, offshore hydrodynamics, offshore basin experiment, and collision and grounding of ships and offshore structures.

Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia;Jaak Truu is a professor of Microbiology at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and head of the Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology Research Group. His research focuses on microbial ecology in contaminated environments, with particular expertise in marine pollution, biodegradation, and bioremediation. He has extensive experience studying microbial responses to petroleum hydrocarbons, explosives, and chemical warfare agents, using advanced molecular, metagenomic, and computational approaches. His work integrates microbial community ecology with contaminant fate and transformation to advance environmentally sustainable remediation strategies, including natural attenuation, enhanced natural recovery, and biologically based treatment approaches for contaminated sediments and aquatic environments.

Institute of Ocean Engineering and Technology, Ocean College, Zhejiang University, China;Prof. Dahai Zhang is a researcher specializing in ocean renewable energy and marine energy equipment. His research focuses on the development of advanced technologies and equipment for tidal stream energy, wave energy, and offshore wind energy. His research interests also include hydrodynamics, marine electromechanical systems, and intelligent control technologies for marine energy equipment.

Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, UK;

Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen, China;Wang Aijun, Ph.D. in Marine Geology, is a Research Professor and doctoral supervisor at the Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources. In 2022, he was selected as a Fujian Provincial High-Level Talent. He currently serves as Deputy Director of the Department of Marine and Coastal Geology and concurrently as Deputy Director of the Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Physical and Geological Processes. His long-term research focuses on marine sediment dynamics, estuarine and coastal organic carbon cycling, and the development and utilization of marine resources. As Principal Investigator, he has led six projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published more than 150 academic papers, over 80 of which as first or corresponding author. He currently serves as a Council Member of the Estuarine and Coastal Branch of the Chinese Society for Oceanography / Chinese Society for Oceanology and Limnology, and as Associate Editor of the international journal Anthropocene Coasts.

Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy;Francesco Tiralongo is a researcher and professor in Zoology at the University of Catania, Italy, where he is also scientific head of the Laboratory of Mediterranean Marine Fauna Biology. He is a marine biologist and ichthyologist specialising in Mediterranean fish ecology, fisheries biology, marine biological invasions, elasmobranchs, and citizen science. He coordinates AlienFish, a citizen-science project dedicated to monitoring rare and non-indigenous fishes in Italian waters, and participates in national and international research projects on marine biodiversity and invasive species. He has authored more than 170 scientific articles and two books on Mediterranean fish fauna and is actively involved in university teaching and scientific outreach.

Department of Earth & Environmental Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA;Dr. Ilya V. Buynevich employs a combination of sedimentological and geophysical techniques to reconstruct coastal environmental change. He began his career at Odesa National University (Ukraine) and holds a PhD in geology from Boston University. After working at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he joined the faculty at Temple University, where his research includes coastal morphodynamics, aeolian landscape evolution, event sedimentology, zoogeomorphology, ichnology, and georadar imaging. Over the past two decades, Dr. Buynevich conducted research in the USA, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Kuwait, Türkiye, Israel, Brazil, and the Bahamas. He serves on editorial boards of two MDPI journals (JMSE, Coasts).

Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China;

Oceanography and Marine Environment Division, Sea and Marine Resources Department, Portuguese Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), Lisbon, Portugal;