**About the Special Issue Editors**

**Carlos Guedes Soares** is a Distinguished Professor of the Engineering Faculty (Instituto Superior Tecnico) of the University of Lisbon. He is the Head of the Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean ´ Engineering (CENTEC), which is a research centre classified by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology as Excellent. He received his MSc and Ocean Engineer degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. His Ph.D. degree was received from the Norwegian Institute of Technology of the University of Trondheim. His Doctor of Science degree was received from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. He was conferred as Doctor honoris causa by the Technical University of Varna and University "Dunarea de Jos" of Galati. He is a Fellow of SNAME, RINA, IMarEST, ASME and Ordem dos Engenheiros; Member of ASCE, AGU, AMS and SRA; and Member of the Portuguese Academy of Engineering. He is actively involved in various research areas within Ocean Engineering, including wave energy.

**Matt Lewis** is an EPRSC Research Fellow at Bangor University. His marine renewable energy research aims to characterise the resource (e.g., suitable locations and electricity quality) and oceanographic conditions (e.g., to inform resilient design of devices), as well as likely environmental impacts. His research interests include understanding how systems interact, which he accomplishes by combining computer models of biological and physical processes to better understand the marine system. Matt is actively working in a number of research areas: future flood risk, estuarine processes modelling, aquaculture, tidal energy, wave–tide interaction modelling, BGM and larvae modelling.
