Jesús María Blanco, industrial engineer (1992) and Ph.D. (1996), has been an Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country, School of Engineering, Fluid Mechanics Department since 1993 and a lecturer at the Open University since 1997. With an MSc in Research (2009) from the School of Engineering, Cranfield University, UK, he has been a visiting lecturer at this university with several research stays since 2008. Supervising 7 Ph.D. theses in this field, he has published over 30 papers in international journals and 45 proceedings in national and international congresses, leading numerous Research Projects. His current research interests are focused on CFD models, wave and wind energy and educational projects. Organizer of the congress CMN’2013, member of the editorial board of international congresses ECCOMASS’2014, CMN’2015 and 2017, and habitual referee of several international journals, such as Applied Thermal Engineering, Fuel, Energy, etc., since 2004 and a member of the scientific committee of the Spanish Society for Numerical Methods in Engineering since 2008. He was awarded by the Open University in Spain for research projects in minimization of the environmental impact associated with particular industrial processes (2005). Coordinator of the ERASMUS MUNDUS Joint Master's Degree in Offshore Renewable Energies, member of the Basque Government Research Group (IT781-13) 2013-2018 and Leader of the Basque Government Research Group (IT1314-19) 2019-2021.