Prof. Carlos Guedes Soares

Prof. Dr. C. Guedes Soares is a Distinguished Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. He is the Scientific Coordinator of the Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering (CENTEC). He received his M.Sc. and Ocean Engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA in 1976, his Ph.D. degree from the Norwegian Institute of Technology of the University of Trondheim in 1984, and his Doctor of Science degree from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1991. He is Doctor Honoris causa at the Technical University of Varna (2003) and the University Dunarea de Jos in Galati (2004). He has been coordinating the Symposium on Structures, Safety, and Reliability of the Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE) Conference since 1989. He has been an editor and Editor-in-Chief of the Reliability Engineering and System Safety Journal (Elsevier) since 1992, is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Marine Science and Application (Springer), and belongs to the editorial boards of more than 15 journals. He is a fellow with SNAME, RINA, IMarEST, and ASME, "Membro Conselheiro" of Ordem dos Engenheiros, a member of ASCE, AGU, AMS, and SRA, and a member of the Portuguese Academy of Engineering.