Michael M. Bernitsas, PhD, is the Mortimer E. Cooley Professor of Engineering;Professor of Naval Architecture and Marine;Professor of Mechanical Engineering;Director, Marine Renewable Energy Laboratory;University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2145;Tel: 734-764-9317;michaelb@umich.edu Education: National Technical University of Athens, NA&ME, 1975;Massachusetts Institute of Technology SM NA&ME 1977, SM OE 1977, PhD OE 1980. He was awarded the Blakely-Smith Medal 2003, for “Outstanding Accomplishment in Ocean Engineering”, by SNAME;he is Life-Fellow of ASME 1998-;and Life-Fellow SNAME 1998-. He served as Department Chair 1994-2003. He is founder and Chief Technology Officer of Vortex Hydro Power dedicated to commercializing the VIVACE technology. He holds 13 patents related to VIVACE in the USA, the EU, and Brazil. He is well known in Offshore Engineering for his research in: (1) Flow Induced Oscillations, vortex induced vibrations, galloping. (2) Synergistic flow induced motions of multiple cylinders using fish bio-mimetics. (3) Harnessing hydrokinetic energy by enhancing flow induced oscillations with the VIVACE Converter. (4) Marine riser mechanics: revealed the mechanics of global buckling of risers in tension, 1983. (5) Mooring/Towing Dynamics: Developed a noniterative design methodology based on bifurcations and their singularities. Explained phenomena of large amplitude motions as interaction of dynamic instabilities with slowly varying wave drift forces, not as resonance, 1983-2005.