**About the Editors**

**Madjid Karimirad** (BSc, MSc, PhD, Postdoc, CEng, MIMechE, M.ASME, PGCHET, FHEA, and FIMarEST) is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Marine and Coastal Engineering in the School of Natural and Built Environment at Queen's University Belfast. Dr. Karimirad is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Ocean, Offshore, and Arctic Engineering, Editor of Ocean Engineering Journal (Elsevier), member of IMechE and ASME, and a fellow of IMarEST. He was Scientist in MARINTEK (Norwegian Marine Technology Research Institute) and SINTEF Ocean, Norway. Dr. Karimirad has been researching marine structures and offshore technology for more than 13 years. His knowledge covers salient aspects of offshore mechanics, hydrodynamics, and structural engineering, and he has more than 80 scientific publications (Citations 1522, h-index 22). He has been part of NOWITECH (Norwegian Research Center for Offshore Wind Technology) for eight years. While working at MARINTEK/SINTEF (Norway), he has been the key researcher and research manager in collaborative projects such as H2020 LIFES50+, EU FP7 DTOcean, and EU IPRWind. Recently, he was the investigator on Floating Solar Energy and a contributor to the decarbonization project (granted by Invest Northern Ireland).

**Maurizio Collu** (BSc, MSC, PhD, CEng, MRINA, FHEA) is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Offshore Renewable Energy Systems in Naval Architecture, Ocean, and Marine Engineering Department at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He has been a chartered engineer since 2011, member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, member of the ITTC Hydrodynamic Modelling of Marine Renewable Energy Devices Committee (2017-21), associate editor of the Journal OMAE, Special Issue guest editor for Energies (MDPI), and Ocean Engineering (Elsevier). His research has focused on coupled dynamics of offshore renewable energy devices since 2009, with more than 60 international peer-reviewed papers, and four book chapters on this topic. He led the development of a coupled model of dynamics for a wind-wave hybrid renewable energy device as work package leader in the EU project H2Ocean (EU FP7 288145). Currently, Dr. Collu is the co-investigator and work package leader on the 3.8M GBP grant EP/P009743/1 "HOME Offshore", leading the development of numerical model of dynamics for offshore wind farms, and principal investigator of the 0.8M GBP INNO-MPP project (EP/R007497/1, EP/R007497/2), a UK—China project focusing on the development of multipurpose offshore platforms, managing 19 investigators from 3 UK and 3 Chinese research institutions. He is also the work package leader in the EU H2020 project "The Blue Growth Farm (774426)", coordinating the development of a coupled model of dynamics for offshore multi-purpose platforms.
