Richard VillavicencioRichard Villavicencio graduated in 2001 from the Austral University of Chile with a Naval Architecture degree. After working six years for MARCO Group - Shipyard Division he enrolled in the PhD program in Marine Structures at Instituto Superior Técnio, Technical University of Lisbon, investigating the response of ship structural components to impact loading. He is currently a Senior Specialist at Lloyd's Register working on design assessment of ship structures and components and conducting research in the fields of ship collisions and impact loads. He was a Member of the Technical Committee Fatigue and Fracture of ISSC (2015-2018). As of 2016, he is a Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Collision and Grounding of Ships and Offshore Structures (ICCGS). Read More Read Less