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Yordan Garbatov is a Full Professor and Head of the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Academic Unit at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa. He is President of the Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering (CENTEC) at IST and Chairman of Committee III.2 Fatigue and Fracture of the International Ship and Offshore Structure Congress (ISSC), 2015-2023. His research areas and Interests are ship, offshore platform and wind turbine supporting structures; welding simulation; fatigue and fracture mechanics; ultimate strength; degradation of ageing marine structures; reliability and risk-based multi-criteria design, maintenance and operation; life-cycle benefit analysis; energy efficiency and carbon footprint and hybrid light-weight marine structures.

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Joško Parunov is a Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Croatia. His research interest is focused on hydrodynamic, structural and reliability analysis of marine structures, including prediction of environmental loads, ultimate strength, fatigue, structural reliability, and dynamic responses. He participated in numerous industry projects related to ships’ and offshore floating structures’ structural analysis (strength, fatigue and vibration). Since 2006, he has been a member of the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC) committees. Presently, he is a member of the Joint ISSC-ITTC Committee, which deals with Uncertainty modelling in waves and wave-induced responses. Since 2014., he has been a chairman of the Standing Committee of the Symposium on Theory and Practice of Shipbuilding in memoriam of prof. Leopold Sorta. He is an editorial board member of Brodogradnja and the Journal of Marine Science and Application.

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Nian-Zhong Chen is a Professor (“Peiyang Distinguished Professor”) at the School of Civil Engineering, Tianjin University, China. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering – ASME and an editorial board member of the Chinese Journal of Ship Research. Before joining Tianjin University, he worked as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Engineering, Newcastle University, UK. Before that, he worked for the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), Houston, TX, USA, for seven years, specialising in industry standard development and advanced R&D projects. His research interest is primarily focused on structural integrity and reliability assessment for marine structures (Merchant ships, FPSO, offshore wind turbines, Semi, TLP, Riser & pipeline, etc.), including ultimate strength prediction, fatigue and fracture mechanics analysis, corrosion fatigue, engineering critical assessment (ECA), structural reliability analysis, risk-based inspection (RBI), risk analysis, digital twin (DT), etc. As PI, he was in charge of 25+ projects from US and UK offshore oil & gas companies, including ExxonMobil, BP, GE, DNVGL, etc. In addition, he is currently a committee member of the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC), a member of the Scientific Committee (Structures, Safety and Reliability) of the International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE) (ASME), a member of the international conference organising committees of COTech and MARTECH, a member of ASME and SNAME. He was a member of the technical committee of Ship Structure Committee (SSC) projects of the USA, a technical committee member of Joint Industry Projects (JIP) and industry Joint Development Projects (JDP) of the USA, and a member of the international conference organising committees of MARSTRUCT, IMAM, etc.

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Bin Liu is a Professor at Green & Smart River-Sea-Going Ship, Cruise and Yacht Research Centre, Wuhan University of Technology, China. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Marine Science and Application. Professor Liu’s research interests are Structural Safety Assessment of Ships and Offshore Structures, especially for cruise ship and yacht structures. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal papers from renowned Ocean Engineering journals (e.g. Marine Structures, Ocean Engineering) to reputable Mechanical Engineering ones (e.g. International Journal of Impact Engineering, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences). He is currently a committee member of the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC), a member of the Scientific Committee (Structures, Safety and Reliability) of the International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE), a member of Scientific Committee of International Conference on Collision and Grounding of Ships and Offshore Structures.