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Fulya Islek
University College Dublin, Ireland
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Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Luis Alfonso Díaz-Secades
University of Oviedo, Spain
Joo-Sung Kim
Mokpo National Maritime University, Republic of Korea
Luka Vukić
University of Split, Croatia
Award Committee
Prof. Charitha Pattiaratchi
Chairperson
The University of Western Australia, Australia
Winner
Sarat Mohapatra
Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Ho Namgung
Mokpo National Maritime University, Republic of Korea
Hitoshi Tanaka
Tohoku University, Japan
Magdalena Bogalecka
Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Joonho Lee
UST21, Republic of Korea
Award Committee
Prof. Charitha Pattiaratchi
Chairperson
The University of Western Australia
Winner
José Simão Antunes Do Carmo
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Santiago Lain
Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Colombia
Clément Iphar
The University of Brest, France
Anna Miller
Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Miaohua Mao
Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, China
Winner
Mina Tadros
Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering, Portugal
Mai The Vu
Sejong University, Korea
Denis Istrati
The University of Nevada, USA
Cagatay Iris
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Chiemela Victor Amaechi
Lancaster University, UK
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