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Vincenzo Manzari is a leading researcher in the field of maritime robotics, with a focus on underwater surveillance, autonomous systems interoperability, and cooperative multi-vehicle operations. His work addresses critical challenges in naval defense and marine security, particularly through the development and experimental validation of unmanned maritime vehicles (UMVs) for complex missions. Manzari’s major contributions include pioneering the use of marine robots for underwater threat detection and homeland defense, as demonstrated in his highly cited 2020 review, *Marine Robots for Underwater Surveillance* (74 citations). He has also advanced interoperability among heterogeneous unmanned systems, as shown in his 2020 study on unmanned maritime vehicles (25 citations) and his 2018 NATO operational experimentation with interoperable underwater assets. His experimental work includes acoustically tracking autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) from autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) and testing remote passive acoustic barriers during NATO’s REPMUS-21 exercises. Manzari’s research has been supported by the EUMarineRobots H2020 project, where he contributed to localisation approaches for underwater autonomy. With a growing citation record and active involvement in at-sea NATO experiments, Manzari is a key figure in advancing autonomous maritime systems for both military and civilian applications.