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Professor of Ocean Structures and Subsea Engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) – COPPE, where he is the General Manager of the Subsea Technology Laboratory and Coordinator of the Offshore Renewable Energy Group. He is Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Member of the Advisory Board of the Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering Division, Fellow of the Society for Underwater Technology, and Member of the Brazilian Academy of Engineering.

He has a Ph.D. from Imperial College London, and he is Coordinating lead author of the chapter on Ocean Energy of the IPCC Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation.