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ICHD 2024

15^th International Conference on Hydrodynamics
September 2-6, 2024
Rome

Keynote Speakers

ODD MAGNUS FALTINSEN

Department of Marine Technology, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
E-mail: odd.faltinsen@ntnu.no

Odd Magnus Faltinsen has worked on broad aspects of hydrodynamics of displacement ships, high-speed craft, offshore structures, and fish farms. Faltinsen was born in 1944 in Stavanger, Norway, and obtained a cand. real. degree in applied mathematics at theUniversity of Bergen in 1968 and a PhD degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering in 1971 at the University of Michigan. He was employed by DNV from 1968 to 1974, was dosent in marine technology from 1974 to 1976 and professor of Marine Hydrodynamics from 1976 at NTNU. Faltinsen is the author of the three textbooks publishedby Cambridge University Press. He has authored more than 500 publications in scientific journals, conferences, and books, and given about 50 keynote and honours lectures. He gavethe 15th Georg Weinblum Lecture, 1992-1993.He received the Fridtjof Nansen’s award for outstanding research in science and medicine in 2011. The 26th International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies held in Athens on April 17-20, 2011, was dedicated to Professor Odd M. Faltinsen. The “Professor Odd Faltinsen Honoring Symposium on Marine Hydrodynamics” was arranged at OMAE 2013, Nantes, France in June 9-14, 2013. He received the OOAE Division-ASME Lifetime Achievement Award in June 2013 and theCouncil of the Confederation of European Maritime Technology Societies Award in 2017. Faltinsen is elected member of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, corresponding member of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering, USA, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

MICHAEL S. TRIANTAFYLLOU

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
E-mail: mistetri@mit.edu
WebSite: http://web.mit.edu/towtank/www/
http://meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/mistetri@mit.edu

Michael Triantafyllou is the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor in Ocean Science & Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the Director of the MIT Sea Grant Program. He teaches and has published over 350 journal articles and refereed conference papers in the areas of biomimetics, dynamics and control of marine systems, cable mechanics, and experimental fluid mechanics. He pioneered the development of science-driven biomimetic robots to study the basic mechanisms of flow control that lead to the outstanding agility of fish and cetaceans. The RoboTuna original design is at the Science Museum in London, while a second version of the robot shown at left, is on exhibit at the MIT Museum. He is currently studying the physics of flow sensing in fish and marine mammals to achieve super-maneuverability in ocean vehicles through flow feedback control. He is a Life Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Life Fellow of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. He has served as Associate Department Head in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (2008-2010), Director of the Center for Ocean Engineering (2005-2017) and is a Visiting Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution since 1991. He is serving on the American Bureau of Shipping’s Marine Technical Committee (2015- ). He has served as Chairman of the Board of the National Technical University of Athens (2013-2017).

MASSIMO FREZZOTTI

Department of Science, University Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
E-mail: massimo.frezzotti@uniroma3.it

Since July 2019 is Full Professor at Department of Science of the University Roma Tre. From 1983 to 2019 was Senior Researcher at ENEA. In the period 1983-1990 he worked on geological research for nuclear power sites and on glacial, aeolian and alluvial deposits in order to study paleoclimatic variations in Central Italy. Since 1985 he has been working on glaciology and remote sensing, applied to the study of cryosphere and climate variability of East Antarctica. He has joined 14 PNRA expeditions to Antarctica, from 2004 to 2010 he is Principal Investigator of European Project TALDICE (Talos Dome Ice Core Project), from 1996 to 2004 project leader of PNRA-ITASE (International TransAntarctic Scientific Expedition), from 2016 to 2019 PI of “WP 1 Logistic support and Coordination” H2020 “Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice” Project. Since 1992 Principal investigator of 10 projects on ice sheet mass balance and 1000 years evolution of East Antarctica for the Antarctic Italian Program as well as member of the Steering committee of the Concordia Station, SCAR/IGBP ITASE, ISMASS, IPICS e EuroPICS programs. Since 2014 is President of Italian Glaciological Committee, from 2008 to 2011 member of Council of International Glaciological Society, since 2011 member of Italian Commission for Antarctic Research and from 2011 to 2013 member of Council of Managers of National Antarctic Program. In 2008, European Commission awarded him for collaborative research (EPICA) of Descartes Prize and by ENEA of E2 Excellence Prize. In 2010 as PI of TALDICE project has been awarded by the Italian Minister for the Environment for its scientific merits in environmental research. His publication list comprises more than 90 peer-reviewed papers. He is referee of several international Journals and research programme in the field of cryosphere and paleoclimate.