Marilena Greco is
professor in marine hydrodynamics at the dept. of Marine Technology, NTNU, Norway,
with a position started in 2010 with funds for five years from DNV (Det Norske
Veritas). Since 2023, she is part-time Researcher Director at the research
centre CNR-INM, Institute of Marine Engineering, Italy, and has been Specially
Appointed Professor (Honorary position) in 2020-2021 at OSAKA University,
Japan. Since 2004, she was associated with the Centre of Excellence (CoE) CeSOS
in Trondheim, first as visiting Researcher and then as Adjunct Professor. In
2012, she was awarded, with other 5 key scientists, by the Research Council of
Norway for establishment and management of the CoE on Autonomous Marine
Operations and Systems, NTNU AMOS, worldwide recognized as a leading research
centre in marine operations; it ended in 2023 with a 10-year budget 1000+MNOK
and 120+ graduated PhDs. Up to 2024, M. Greco supervised 47 MSc students with
their theses, 6 PhD students, 3 post-docs at NTNU, 6 internships. She has
H-index 26 (Scholar), co-authored 125+ publications, is Associate Editor of
Journal of Fluids and Structures and contributes as referee for leading
journals in fluid dynamics and marine hydrodynamics. Her research interests are
within marine hydrodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, nonlinear
free-surface and multiphase flows, fluid-structure interactions,
hydroelasticity. The investigations tools are primarily numerical and
theoretical, but also experiments are used. Recent focus is on bio-inspired
marine concepts, renewable energy sources in marine environment, aquaculture,
safety of vehicles in extreme sea conditions.