Emanuel M. M. Ferreira Coelho was born in March 1961. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, both in physical oceanography, with a minor in digital signal processing, from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, in 1991 and 1994, respectively.
He is a Hydrographic Engineer with the Portuguese Navy and an Associate Professor with the University Lusófona, Lisboa, Portugal. He is now a Researcher and the Head of the Oceanography Division at the Instituto Hidrográfico, Lisboa, Portugal. His past and present topics of research have covered coordination and participation in several oceanographic campaigns and studies dedicated to mesoscale and submesoscale processes, mainly related to submarine canyons dynamics, quasi-inertial internal waves, and the occurrence of internal dynamical instabilities, development of software for the processing of acoustic data for ocean turbulance measurements in prototype instrumentation, coordination and participation in cruises using both ship-based observations and ROV data for the evaluation of diffusive processes in the upper ocean and for testing of acoustic methods for sea observation, namely acoustic tomography, analysis of near-inertial internal wave propagation over irregular (finite) topography, and nonlinear internal wave generation and propagation.