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Mauro Bondioli, is a renowned world specialist with a profound knowledge of
the principles, techniques, and rules that guided naval construction, particularly of galleys, in 14th, 15th and
16th-Century Italy. He has been studying shipbuilding techniques in the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance for
over 26 years, and is a specialist in both the construction of round and long ships.
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Furio Ciciliot is a renowned world specialist in medieval and early modern
naval history and Italian shipbuilding. His extensive archival research extends over 20 years and over 100,000
documents. His publications encompass a number of monographies and around one hundred articles. His most recent
books are: Le superbe navi. Cantieri e tipologie navali liguri medievali, Società Savonese di Storia Patria-Savona 2005; and Nelson e noi, Milano-Mursia 2006, together with Alberto
Cavanna. He is now working on Christopher Columbus and the Caboto family.
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Filipe Vieira de Castro received a Licenciatura
in Civil Engineering from the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa in 1984, an M.B.A. from the Universidade Católica
Portuguesa in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University
in 2001. He is the Director of the J. Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory.
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Nuno Fonseca graduated in Naval Architecture at Instituto Superior Técnico,
Technical University of Lisbon, in 1989. Then he received a MSc in Naval Architecture from the University of Glasgow
in 1993 and a PhD in Naval Architecture from the Technical University of Lisbon in 2001. Presently he is an assistant
professor at the Naval Architecture Autonomous Section of Instituto Superior Técnico and a researcher of
the Unit of Marine Technology and Engineering. His main areas of interest are ship and sailing vessels dynamics,
hydrodynamics and aerodynamics and nautical archaeology.
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Lilia Campana is a M.A. student in the Nautical
Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University. She graduated in Classical Literature with a major in Greek and
Roman Archaeology at the Libera Università degli Studi in Urbino (Italy), ending her studies with a 4.0
GPA and magna cum laude. Her current research focuses on the history of shipbuilding technology and naval architecture
during the Medieval and Renaissance periods. Under the guidance of Mauro Bondioli she started a new program of
investigation of the Italian treatises and manuscripts of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries.
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Dante Bartoli
is a Ph.D. candidate in the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University. He got his Bachelor of Arts
in 1999 in Milan, Italy, studying Classical Literature and Archaeology of Magna Graecia at the Università
Statale degli Studi. After writing a B.A.'s thesis on the Apulian ceramic production, in 2001 he came to the U.S.
to specialize in Nautical Archaeology. Since then, he has directed four seasons of underwater surveys in southern
Italy, in the waters off the Greek colonies of Croton, Caulonia, and Locri Epizephiri, which led to the location
and mapping of several submerged sites. His areas of interest include the history of Greek Colonization, Roman
seafaring and marble trade, Italian Medieval and Renaissance Seafaring.
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Courtney Higgins is a MA student in the Nautical
Archaeology Program. She received her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Denver in 1999. After several years
of working with terrestrial archaeology with a private archaeological firm, she returned to school and is presently
researching Venetian galleys of the Renaissance period. During the summer of 2006, she worked on the Kizilburun
Roman column wreck and was involved in artifact mapping utilizing programs such as Site Surveyor and PhotoModeler.
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Tiago A. Santos graduated in Naval Architecture at Instituto Superior Técnico,
the engineering school from the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, in 1995. He then received a MSc degree in
Naval Architecture by the University of Glasgow in 1999, with a thesis on time domain simulation of roll on roll
off ship accidental flooding. Since then, he has been a research student undertaking intact and damage condition
ship stability studies, aiming at obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Naval Architecture by Instituto Superior Técnico.
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Tomás M. P. Vacas is finishing his "Licenciatura"
(M.S.) in Naval Architecture at Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon. His course final
project is a study of Nossa Senhora
dos Mártires' reconstruction.
He is developing a computer model with 3D modeling software in order to test the hull structure and the overall
plausibility of the 3D model, and assess the ship's structural and sailing capabilities.
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Vincent Valenti is a MA student in the Nautical
Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University...
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