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The Maritime theme encompasses a wide variety of disciplines across the engineering field and includes:

• Naval architecture
  Small craft design, characterisation and performance
  Ship hull structure design
  Welding - optimisation of fabrication welding procedures of light weight naval structures to minimise residual stresses and distortion via the application of support design and manufacturing tools that involves the experimental and numerical assessment and application of new welding and joining technologies such as friction stir
• Experimental and computational analysis on hybrid composite/sandwich construction for  lightweight maritime structures. 
• Damage analysis of composite structures using quasi static, low and high speed impact scenarios including NDT and vibrational modal analysis.
• Offshore renewable energy generation and storage covering research activities on:
  Aerodynamics of floating wind turbines using computational fluid dynamics and wind tunnel measurements used to assess the influence of wave induced platform motion on the aerodynamic performance and the near wake physics of floating turbines.
  Design of offshore support structures - analysis of deep water structures conducted through the various software packages, enabling design optimisation for Central Mediterranean conditions. Applications include deep offshore support structures for wind turbines and wind measurement masts.
  Offshore energy storage - the implementation of combined wind energy generation of wind turbines and novel energy storage technologies on the floating offshore structures
• Integrated hydrodynamic design adopting multisystem and multiphysics models for optimisation purposes and experimental design in phenomena of sloshing and cavitation to maximise operational efficiency.
• Adopting current maritime rules and regulations and accepted naval architecture principles, analyses on historic ships explain maritime events such as the example of why the S.S. Ohio, the Santa Marija Convoy, was unsinkable.