Michele Mossa is a professor of Hydraulics at the Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy), with a PhD in Hydraulic Engineering for the Environment and Land. He is the chief scientist of the Coastal Engineering Laboratory – LIC, a member of the board of directors of the National Consortium of Universities for Marine Sciences (CoNISMa) for the Polytechnic University of Bari, a member of the Fluid Mechanics Committee of the International Association for Hydro Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), an elected representative of Academic Senate of the Polytechnic University of Bari, a coordinator of the PhD course in "Environmental and Building Risk and Development", and Deputy Rector of the Polytechnic University of Bari for Research and Technology Transfer.