Ship Hydrostatics and Stability. Edition No. 3

Authors

Adrian Biran Associate Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Adrian Biran, DSc in Technology Sciences, worked for many years as an adjunct professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He is the author of several technical papers and best-selling books published in six languages on various subjects, including naval architecture and MATLAB. Earlier in his career, he held roles including design engineer, chief of department, and project leader at IPRONAV (Bucharest, Romania), project leader at IPA (Bucharest, Romania), senior engineer at the Israel Shipyards (Haifa, Israel), and research engineer at the Technion R&D Foundation (Haifa, Israel). Rub�n L�pez-Pulido Diplomatic Counsellor, Embassy of Spain in Ireland, Ireland. Rub�n L�pez-Pulido is a member of the UK's Royal Institution of Naval Architects and the Spanish Association of Naval Architects. Former maritime attach� of the Embassy of Spain in London and representative of Spain to the International Maritime Organization of the UN. He was a naval architect and software engineer at SENER working on the development of the naval architecture modules of the FORAN system, a CAD/CAM/CAE software for ship design and shipbuilding. He was a hydrodynamicist and stability of ships researcher at the CEHINAV (ETSIN-UPM) Madrid Ship Model Basin. In 2010, he received the Spanish National Outstanding Career Award for naval architects under 35 years of age to recognize his outstanding professional service and contributions to the maritime and shipping business, naval architecture, and marine engineering community.