Professor Gregorio Iglesias received his Ph.D. degree in Coastal Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid in 2001. He currently serves as a Professor of Marine Renewable Energy at the School of Engineering, University College Cork, and an Honorary Professor of Coastal Engineering at The School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Plymouth. With over 20 years of experience, his research disciplines include: ocean renewable energy (resource assessment, impact assessment, development of wave energy converters, combined wave and wind systems, and economics), offshore wind energy, coastal processes (estuarine hydraulics, beach morphodynamics) and coastal and port structures (breakwater design).