Andrea Marchese is a Naval Architect engineer working at Cetena in the “Design for Safety” business unit. The unit supports Fincantieri, Classification societies (Lloyds Register, Bureau Veritas, Rina ..) and shipowners in risk analysis studies such as Alternative design, Safe Return to Port (SRtP) and Ship Design Risk Assessment. Andrea is part of the expert team specialized in Safe Return to Port which regularly assesses the effects of any casualty (fire and flooding) on the essential systems onboard (potential criticalities, deficiency, etc.) required for Safe Return to Port compliance (SOLAS). The identification of design alternative solutions and the operational recovery actions (including the effectiveness of level of automation on ship functions recovery) are part of his risk analysis. These complex studies are carried out with a dedicated tool developed in-house of which Andrea is coordinator. Andrea has also been the technical expert of different research and development activities in the maritime sector.