María Dolores Esteban (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor in Coastal Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and in Coastal Engineering and Renewable Energies at the Universidad Europea. She has more than 15 years of experience in the fields of maritime engineering and renewable energies as an engineer in a private company and as a lecturer and researcher at the university. She has more than 50 technical papers in SCI indexed journals and numerous oral presentations in international conferences. Her main fields of research are coastal and maritime engineering, harbor and ports, beaches, loads actions and effects in maritime structures, renewable energies such as offshore wind, wave, and currents. She is very active in R&D projects, being an important asset to her research group the Environmental, Coast and Ocean Research Laboratory (ECOREL) at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid