Erfan Amini has his M.Sc. in Coastal and Offshore Structures Engineering from the University of Tehran (Ranked 1st), and his B.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology. Currently, he is a research assistant in the Hydraulic and Fluid Mechanics Lab in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Tehran. During his research career, he has had multiple contributions to the field of wave energy converters analysis and the application of meta-heuristic optimization algorithms in this area. Erfan’s research was further extended to the design optimization of the power take-off system, as well as layout assessment of WEC’s farm to achieve the best site-selection of converters’ array, where he took advantage of different simulators and numerical approaches for enhancing the performance analysis of WECs.