**About the Editors**

**Ermina Begovic** graduated from Zagreb University, where she also finished her MSc degree. She completed her PhD at University of Naples Federico II, where, at present, she holds the position of Associate Professor of Ship Seakeeping. Her main research interests are high speed and planing craft seakeeping, safety and comfort on board of high speed ships, experimental hydrodynamics, hydrodynamic loads acting on intact and damaged ships, and high speed hull form design and optimization. Ermina Begovic is the author of more than 90 papers published in international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters, and a member of the ISSC Specialist Committee on Special Craft and of Stability Research and Development Committee.

**Simone Mancini**, since 2020, has been the numerical team leader at the Department of Hydro and Aerodynamics at the FORCE Technology, Denmark. Furthermore, he was, for 15 years, a technical officer of the Italian Navy and, after periods of experience on board, he served as a project manager at the Ship Design Office of the Italian Navy General Staff. In 2012, he completed his MSc in Naval Architect and Marine Engineering at the University of Naples "Federico II", where he also completed his PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics, in 2016. He is the author of more than 40 papers published in international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. He has served as a reviewer for more than 30 journals, and he is a member of the editorial board of two international journals. Since 2015, he has been a Contract Professor at the University "Giustino Fortunato". He is a SNAME member.
