Recent Advances on Safe Maritime Operations under Extreme Conditions

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This is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417) (available at: www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special issues/safe maritime operations). Pentti Kujala - Since 2006, Pentti Kujala has been a Professor of Marine Technology (safety) at the Aalto University, School of Engineering. Since 2012, he has been the Head of the Marine Technology research group, and from May 2017, he has also been the Vice Dean of Research for the School of Engineering. He chairs a Center of Excellence for Arctic Shipping and Operations (CEPOLAR) funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation (2013–2021). His main research interests have been devoted to the safety and risk analysis of marine operations both in open water and in ice, and the development of innovative structural solutions for various types of ships. In total, he has published over 300 papers with approximately 3900 citations and has a Scopus h-index of 34. Spyros Hirdaris is an Associate Professor of Maritime Technology. In his research, he combines knowledge from advanced ship and safety science, marine hydrodynamics and structures for the prediction of sea loads, safety, and the performance of ships and offshore structures operating in extreme conditions. He completed his PhD in 2002 on Ship Science (Hydroelasticity of Ships) at the University of Southampton. From 2004 to 2018, he worked internationally for Lloyd’s Register. This work involved research and product development, planning and strategy for R&D, consultancy, and new marine construction activities. He is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (UK), and a Member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (USA). He has served in the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress as a member and chairman of various committees with a focus on sea loads and responses since 2008. Martin Bergstrom, Ph.D., M.Sc (Tech.), is a Naval Architect and Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalto University in Finland. He completed his Ph.D. at NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in 2017. In his research, he develops tools and approaches towards safe and efficient winter navigation. Currently, he primarily focuses on the simulation and analysis of winter navigation systems to study the implications of climate change and Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) regulations, among others. In addition, he contributes to the development of methods supporting the goal-based design of ice-class ships following the IMO Polar Code.