Hamed Majidiyan has worked in the maritime industry for over 13 years, holding various roles such as pilot, operations manager, surveyor, designer, analyst, and consultant. He earned his bachelor's degree in maritime engineering and a master's degree in naval architecture from the Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran. In addition to academic publications, Hamed has been a visiting researcher at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and an IMarEST Scholar. In 2022, he began his PhD journey at the Centre for Seafaring and Maritime Operations and secured a graduate teaching fellow position at the Centre of Maritime Engineering and Hydrodynamics. Hamed is committed to integrating data science into maritime and ocean engineering, focusing his recent work on applied mathematics and statistics within these fields.

Hossein commenced his career as a seafarer and has 13 years of service as a navigator on ocean-going vessels. He left the sea in 1999 while he was a master mariner to join the training institute to train seafarers and served as a lecturer and head of the deck department. Upon his graduation as a naval architect in 2004, he joined the shipbuilding industry and completed three unique projects. Hossein pursued his career as a maritime researcher at Newcastle University in the UK while completing his PhD and served as a researcher on several national, regional, and international projects while contributing to the teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate engineering programs. Since joining the Australian Maritime College (AMC) in 2014, Hossein has actively engaged in multidisciplinary research focusing on ship operations, developing advanced modelling, control, and optimization algorithms, and applying them to study ship stability and shipboard powering systems. He collaborates with individuals from different hierarchical levels and disciplines within and outside the university to enhance areas of research excellence and attract the best students and researchers from around the world.Hossein's research interests are in ship dynamic stability and marine informatics. He performs advanced research on ship systems and develops decision-making tools using mathematical modeling, simulation, and optimization techniques.

Dr. Damon Howe is a lecturer in the Centre for Maritime Engineering and Hydrodynamics (CMEH) at the Australian Maritime College (AMC). His research interest is in offshore renewable energy, particularly within the field of wave energy, and he also has an interest in maritime structures and technology, both offshore and coastal. He received the PIANC Young Author Award in 2019 at the Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference for his research paper regarding wave energy integration within maritime structures. He completed his PhD at the Australian Maritime College in 2020 and has been in his role as lecturer since 2021. In April 2024, he joined the Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre (Blue Economy CRC) as Deputy Program Leader for the Offshore Engineering and Technology research program. He is also a current member of the Course and Curriculum Committee within CMEH, AMC.

Eric is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian Maritime College (AMC), a specialist institute of the University of Tasmania (UTAS). He obtained his PhD in maritime engineering (2022) and his bachelor of ocean engineering (2018) at AMC. He also has a bachelor of education from the Queensland University of Technology (2005) and combined 14 years of experience in the government and university education sectors. Eric is currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher on the Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) project titled "Developing production systems for offshore kelp mariculture". The objective of the project is to develop and test pilot-scale production systems for offshore kelp that are scalable, economically viable, environmentally sustainable, likely to attract strong social license, and supportable by policy and regulatory measures. Previously, Eric conducted research for the Australia-China Joint Research Centre on Offshore Wind and Wave Energy Harnessing. This project investigated hydrodynamic interactions between a co-located offshore wind turbine and wave energy converter.