Dr Benedetto Piaggio achieved a PhD degree in naval architecture and marine engineering at the University of Genoa in 2020, where he is currently a research associate. In 2019, he spent a visiting research period at Delft University of Technology, ResearchLab Autonomous Shipping (RAS). His research field embraces surface (navy vessels, cruise ships and tugs), underwater (AUV, submarines) and foiling vehicles hydrodynamic modelling, manoeuvrability simulation and navigation control. Amongst his main interests, tug manoeuvrability and towing cooperative dynamics are strongly featured. His teaching activities involve ship manoeuvrability in all conditions and ship stability lecture cycles for the maritime science and technology degree for deck officers at UNIGE in cooperation with the former head of pilots of the port of Genoa. Currently, his study efforts strongly focus on human-powered and wind-powered vehicles. During his postdoc career, he won the hackathon prize of Genova “Open Innovation City Hackathon Blue” for imagining and designing a new sustainable perspective of coastal tourism and sport on foiling human-powered vehicles, which is now being developed and built with support from the Blue District municipality with national resonance.