Dr. Nikola Vladimir is Full Professor and Head of the Chair of Marine Engineering at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (UNIZAG FSB), at the University of Zagreb. He obtained an MSc degree in Naval Architecture in 2007, and a PhD in the field of hydroelasticity of ship structures in 2011, from UNIZAG FSB. His research interests are energy efficiency, environmental friendliness and sustainability of ships and other floating structures, ship power systems, design and operation of special ships, aquaculture, LCA and LCCA, fluid–structure interaction, and static and dynamic analyses of ships and floating structures. As a guest researcher, he was appointed at the Technical University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal; the Research Department of Bureau Veritas, Paris, France; and at the Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea. During his career, Dr. Nikola Vladimir was involved in a number of projects funded through competitive programmes such as EU FP7, Horizon Europe, Interreg ADRION, Global Core Research Center for Ships and Offshore Plants (GCRC-SOP) South Korea, European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), European Social Fund (ESF), European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Croatian Science Foundation (CSF), Bilateral Croatian-Chinese Science and Technology Cooperation, Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports. He has authored more than 300 papers in international journals and specialized conference proceedings.