L.A. Díaz-Secades is a licensed STCW Chief Engineer Unlimited. After ten years working onboard vessels and in shipyards he transitioned into Academia. Currently, he works as Assistant Professor at Escuela Superior de Marina Civil de Gijón at the University of Oviedo specializing in energy efficiency.

He is also founding member of SWELL where he works on Human Element.

Enhancement of Maritime Sector Decarbonization through the Integration of Fishing Vessels into IMO Energy Efficiency Measures Luis Alfonso Díaz-Secades. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2024, 12(4), 663.
DOI: 10.3390/jmse12040663

Abatement of bilge dumping: Another piece to achieve Maritime Decarbonization Luis Alfonso Díaz-Secades. Societal Impacts, vol. 3, 2024.
DOI: 10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100037

Waste heat recovery from marine engines and their limiting factors: Bibliometric analysis and further systematic review Luis Alfonso Díaz-Secades, R. González, N. Rivera. Cleaner Energy Systems, vol. 6, 2023.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cles.2023.100083

Waste heat recovery system for marine engines optimized through a preference learning rank function embedded into a Bayesian optimizer Luis Alfonso Díaz-Secades, R. González, N. Rivera, Elena Montañés, José Ramón Quevedo. Ocean Engineering, vol. 281, 2023, p. 114747.
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.114747

Waste heat recovery from marine main medium speed engine block. Energy, exergy, economic and environmental (4E) assessment – Case study L.A. Díaz-Secades, R. González, N. Rivera. Ocean Engineering, vol. 264, 2022, p. 112493.   
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.112493

My research aims to identify how to improve energy efficiency onboard vessels, increasing the use of the already available energy in order to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. This involves thermal, fluids and electrical engineering (Under construction).