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Michael Baldauf, Dr.                                Dik Gregory, BA(Hons), CPsychol, AFBPsS

         Michael Baldauf graduated with an M.Sc. in Transport      Dik Gregory is a BPS Chartered Psychologist with
         Engineering and a diploma in business management     extensive experience in both Government and com-
         both from the University of Rostock. He holds a Cer-  mercial sectors. He has published journal articles
         tificate of Competence (Deck Officer) and has served   and book chapters on the use of advanced technolo-
         as a navigation officer on several cargo and container   gy for training and operational support. From 1978,
         vessels. In 1992 he transitioned to the scientific field   Dik worked for the UK's Civil Service for ten years,
         and completed work at various universities and re-   which included over three years overseas as an ex-
         search institutes. He obtained his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in   change scientist working on AI and intelligent sys-
         Safety Science from Bergische Universität Wuppertal,   tems research. On his return to the UK in 1986, he
         Germany in 1999. His thesis was dedicated to the sub-  was  promoted to Principal Psychologist (Grade 7),
         ject of traffic monitoring by VTS and he developed a   and appointed as Deputy Superintendent of MoD’s
         method for shore-based detection of collision risks.   Applied Psychology Unit at Teddington.
         Prior to joining WMU, Dr. Baldauf was employed as    Dik left the Civil Service in 1988 to work in the com-
         chief coordinator for research at the Hochschule Wis-  mercial sector. For 30 years he has been a Director
         mar, University of Technology, Business and Design   of his own company, providing human factors and
         where he was involved in several European (as e.g.   organisational consultancy to business and Govern-
         METNET, COMFORTABLE and MarNIS) and national         ment. He has been the principal investigator on a
         projects for research and technical development. In   wide variety of safety-critical projects, all aimed at
         addition to his research activities he was a co-     creating clear guidance and practical support for
         instructor of the full mission ship handling simulator   decision makers working under increasing demands
         and a lecturer in training and education courses of   for greater resilience within complex systems.
         students, captains, and chief officers. His main sub-  Among his many clients, Dik has wide experience of
         ject area is Maritime Safety issues but he has also cov-  the rail, air traffic control and maritime sectors, for
         ered Integrated Navigation Systems and the introduc-  which he has written ground-breaking guidance on
         tion of new technologies into the board navigation   human behaviour for everyday use in operational
         process.
                                                              settings.
         In March 2009 Dr. Baldauf joined the World Maritime
         University (WMU), Malmö, Sweden where he is pres-    He is a co-author with Dr Paul Shanahan of a recent
         ently an Associate Professor in Maritime Safety and   book published by TSO in 2017 “Being Human in safe-
         Environmental Administration which involves re-      ty-critical organisations: how people create safety,
         searching and lecturing on various topics. At WMU he   what stops them. and what to do about it”. This was
         is involved in several projects for research and tech-  followed in 2018 by a companion pocket
         nical development, namely studies into enhanced      guide ”Behaving Safely: a practical guide for risky
         integration of new navigational equipment for en-    work".
         hanced applications contributing to safe navigation
         and particularly enhanced alert management
         onboard seagoing vessels. He is chief instructor at
         WMU for the Maritime Risk and Safety (MaRiSa) Simu-
         lation Laboratory.
         Dr. Baldauf actively works in IMO and is the chairman
         of the international Correspondence Group develop-
         ing Performance Standards for Maritime Voyage Data
         Recorders. He is also presently involved in the work
         of the IMO's Correspondence Group for INS/IBS and
         Bridge Alert Management. He is a member of the
         Nautical Institute, the German Association of
         Transport Sciences (DVWG), and the Society of Risk
         Analysis.
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