Dr. Christos STEFANAKOS is working as Senior Research Scientist in Marine Modelling and Analysis group of the Department of Fisheries and New Biomarine Sources, SINTEF Ocean. He has worked as Ass. Professor in the Department of Naval Architecture of the University of West Attica (UniWa) of Athens, and as Research Engineer in the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He obtained his Diploma from the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, NTUA, in 1991, and his Ph.D. from the same department in 1999. He made a Post Doc in 2001 in the School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, NTUA. His main scientific interest lies in the field of “Nonstationary stochastic modelling and analysis of multivariate time series of marine/maritime parameters”. He is author/co-author of 54 peer reviewed papers, two books, and 14 abstract reviewed presentations. He has participated in several EU funded research projects.