Tonio Sant is a professor within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Malta. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the same University in 1999 and obtained his PhD in wind turbine aerodynamics from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands in 2007. His lecturing topics include Fluid Mechanics, Renewable Energy and Maritime Hydrodynamics. He is the author of more than 125 papers published in journals and conferences. His research works in the marine sector cover offshore wind energy, simulation of dynamics behaviour and loads on floating offshore vessels and offshore-based energy storage.