Massimo Figari received the M.S. degree in marine engineering and naval architecture from the University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, in 1989. From 1990 to 1991, he was a Marine Engineer in the Italian Navy. He was a Researcher at CETENA S.p.A., from 1991 to 1994, and in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Genoa, from 1994 to 2002. He has been an Associate Professor in the Politechnic School, University of Genoa, since 2002, and the Head of Master Course and Bachelor Course in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, since 2013. His teaching activities include military vessels, ship auxiliary systems, and reliability availability and safety of marine systems, and ship propulsion system (Italian Navy Academy, Livorno, Italy). His research interests include dynamic simulation of marine systems, reliability and safety of marine systems, environmental impacts of ships, and their consequence on the design.