PhD. Degrees in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico
Concluded:
    João Pessoa, “Second Order Wave Exciting Loads and Operability of Side by Side Floating Vessels in Waves”, concluded in 2013.
    Hamidreza Jafaryeganeh, “Optimization of the internal hull compartment of oil tankers”, concluded in 2020.
    Haitong Xu, “System Identification, Guidance and Control of Marine Surface Vehicles”, concluded in 2021.
    Miguel Hinostroza, “Motion planning, guidance and control system for the cooperative operation of autonomous surface vehicles”, concluded in 2021.
    Pedro Silveira, “Ship collision risk assessment based on AIS data and expert opinions, concluded in 2021.
    Karim Raed Ahmed Mohamed Hussein, “Probabilistic Wave Load Models for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines”, concluded in 2021.
    Fatemeh Alizadeh, “Assessment of Degraded Material Properties on the Strength of Marine Composite Structures”, concluded in 2022.
    Hafizul Islam, “Application of an Open-source CFD solver for the Hydrodynamic Analysis of Floating Bodies”, concluded in 2022.
    Yuchan Guo, “Wave Interactions with Flexible Porous Membrane Breakwaters”, concluded in 2023.
    Hugo Diaz Martinez, “Decision support system for the design of Floating Wind Farms”, concluded in 2024.
    Adriano Miguel Pinhal dos Santos, “Routing and scheduling of supply vessels and shuttle tankers in offshore logistics under uncertainty”, concluded in 2024.
    Hao Rong, “Maritime traffic modelling and analysis based on AIS Data”, concluded in 2024.
    Paulo A. M. Pires da Silva, “Model Identification of Manoeuvring Models of Naval Vessels”, concluded in 2024.
    Lis Mara Rocha, “Technical, Economic and Safety Optimisation Models for Offshore Production Systems”, concluded in 2025.
    Utkarsh Bhardwaj, “Safety and reliability of systems and equipment for offshore oil and gas production facilities”, concluded in 2025.
    Jorge Gadelho, “Hydrodynamic Analysis of Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converters using OPENFOAM”, concluded in 2025.
    Xu He, “Dynamic response of ship structural components under repeated impacts”, concluded in 2025.
    Zhongchi Liu, “Analysis and Design of Gravity Fish Cages for Aquaculture”, concluded in 2025.
Submitted for Defense:
    He Li, “Reliability and Maintenance of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines”, started in 2019.
In Preparation:
    Nádia Salvação, "Climate change impacts in the Portuguese offshore wind power resources", started in 2015.
    Mojtaba Kamarlouei, “Development of a two-body offshore wave energy converter concept with wave to wire constraints”, started in 2017.
    Miguel Calvário, “Strength of components in composite materials for wave energy converters”, started in 2018.
    Hossam Abdelwahab, “Hybrid numerical model for the hydrodynamic interactions between ships in restricted water”, started in 2019.
    Mohamed Abdelmalek, “Hydroelastic response of offshore floating flexible structures”, started in 2019.
    Guilherme Clarindo Marcos, “Uncertainty of wave spectra from measurements and numerical models”, started in 2020.
    Marta Gonçalves Ribeiro, “Effect of climate change on the available wave energy in Azores and Madeira Islands”, started in 2020.
    Thiago S. Hallak, “Multi-degrees-of-freedom coupled dynamic simulations for hybrid wind-wave platforms”, started in 2020.
    Pouria Amouzadrad, “Hydroelastic response of offshore floating flexible structures”, started in 2020.
    Sara Ramos Marín, “The techno-economic feasibility of the wave energy exploration using different WEC technologies”, starting in 2021.
    Mladinov dos Santos, “Study of guidelines for the construction of naval structures, maintenance and repair of ships”, started in 2022.
    Dapei Liu, “Traffic modelling and intelligence path-planning for maritime autonomous surface ships, started in 2022.
    Dina Silva, “Extending wave forecasts with artificial intelligence models”, started in 2022.
    Matheus Vieira, “Nearshore surface waves from remote sensing techniques”, started in 2022.
    Eduard Lotovskyi, “Maritime traffic and vessel activity knowledge extraction from AIS data#, started in 2022.
    Thiago Gavazzoni, “High Resolution Operational Wave Forecast System for the Portuguese Ports”, started in 2023.
    Abbasali Ghassemzadehahrami, “Non-linear navigation system for underactuated autonomous surface ships in adverse weather conditions”, started in 2023.
    Mohamed Elsaka, “Metal Sandwich Plates for Ship Structures”, started in 2023.
    Fernando Jorge Santos, “Infrastructure of experimental study of autonomous vessels performance”, started in 2023.
    Arman Kakaie, “Reliability analysis of ship structures regarding non-stationary and stochastic behavior of external loads and resistance deterioration process”, started in 2023.
    Jose Luis Lopez Hernandez, “Wave Modelling”, started in 2023.
    Ivan Yanchin, “Planning a safe and optimal route for an autonomous ship”, started in 2023.
    Hansheng Li, “Hydrodynamic Characteristics on Biotic Soft Propulsion of Underwater Robotics”, started in 2024.
    Jian Ji, “Experimental and numerical study of hydrodynamic characteristics of marine cage”, started in 2024.
    Daosheng Ning, “Analysis of hydrodynamic characteristics of ships and marine structures”, started in 2024.
    Mariana Ré Carvalho Henriques, “Wave forecast supported by deep learning methods”, started in 2024.
    Pedro Martins Batista dos Santos, “Optimization of a linear shipping network in archipelago regions using fleets of sustainable and autonomous ships”, started in 2024.

PhD Degrees in collaboration, partially developed at CENTEC
PhD. Degree in Physics by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
PhD. Degree in Civil Engineering, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
PhD. Degree in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia
PhD. Degree in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao
    Liu, Wei, “Joint return values calculation of environmental conditions with maximum entropy distribution for offshore platform design”. (co-supervision), concluded in 2011.
    Yin, Qilin, “Research on the bearing capacity of spudcan and the overall stability of a jack up unit”. (co-supervision), concluded in 2018.
    Lin, Yifan, “Research on wind and wave energy assessment in the China adjacent seas based on multivariate joint probability models”. (co-supervision), concluded in 2019.
PhD. Degree in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
    Edalat, Pedram, “Vibration analysis of stiffened parabolic shell with application in ship structure”. (co-supervision), concluded in 2013.
    Bahmyari, Ehsan, “Uncertainty Quantification in the Dynamic Response of Marine Structures”. (co-supervision), concluded in 2017.
    Berenjkoob, Mahdi, “Numerical analysis of hydrodynamics and dynamics of a two-body point absorber wave energy converter”. (co-supervision), concluded in 2020.
PhD. Degree in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, China
    Wu, Bing, “Study on the emergency intervention modeling method for inland water traffic accidents”, (co-supervision), concluded in 2015.
    Liu, Kang, “The optimized method for structural damage identification based on model updating technique”, (co-supervision), concluded in 2018.
PhD. Degree in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, Technical University of Malaysia, Malaysia
PhD. Degree in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
    Yang, Bin, “Dynamic response and ultimate strength of container ship hull structures under slamming loads”, (co-supervision), concluded in 2019.