Innovations in Maritime Technology and Engineering presents a collection of papers in two volumes from the 8th International Conference on Maritime Technology and Engineering (MARTECH 2026), held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 27-29 May 2026.
C. Guedes Soares is a Distinguished Professor of the Engineering School (Instituto Superior Técnico) of the University of Lisbon and Scientific Coordinator of the Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering (CENTEC). He concluded his postgraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, in 1976, and at the Norwegian Institute of Technology of the University of Trondheim, in 1984 and has since then been at the University of Lisbon (Technical University of Lisbon until 2013). He has supervised more than 75 PhD IST students and co-supervised more than 60 foreign PhD students, and has about 50,000 citations in the Web of Science. He has been Chair or Co-Chair of various conferences in the OMAE, ESREL, IMAM, ISSC, ICCGS, MARSTRUCT, MARTECH, and RENEW series. He has been Editor of the Reliability Engineering and Systems Reliability Journal for about 30 years, the last 10 of which as Editor-in-Chief. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Marine Science & Application, Journal of Reliability Science and Engineering and Autonomous Transportation Research Journal. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of more than 15 indexed Journals. He is a Fellow of SNAME, RINA, IMarEST, ASME and the Portuguese Engineering Association (Ordem dos Engenheiros). He is also a Member of the Portuguese Academy of Engineering, a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and an International Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is the Chairman of WEGEMT, the European Association of Universities in Marine Technology (40 Universities).
F.C. Salvado is a practicing Naval Architect and Marine Engineer, with near 40 years of experience in many domains of the field such as ship design, ship maintenance, project management, shipyard management. He concluded its postgraduate studies in the University College London, UK 1990 and completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal 2017. He has been lecturing in the Integrated Masters Course in Mechanical Engineering of Universidade Nova for about 23 years. In parallel he has been following his career as naval officer, being a Naval Constructor Engineer in the Portuguese Navy, having being appointed to many diverse functions, the most relevant being Director of Ships (the main technical directorate of the Navy) and member of the board of management of Arsenal, SA (the main shipyard of the navy). For nine years he has been Board Advisor of the company West Sea Viana Shipyards. He has also lectured for six years in the Naval Academy. He is currently the President of College of Naval and Ocean Engineering of Ordem dos Engenheiros. He is also a member of the Portuguese Society of Geography and the West Maritime Technology Conference, where he is responsible for organizing the next conference to take place in Lisbon 2027.
