Dr. Francis Obeng is a Researcher with interest focusing on Maritime Human Factors, Decision Analysis & Risk Management. Current ongoing research is in the areas of Fishing Vessel Safety, Human factors, Offshore safety, and Probabilistic Risk Assessment. He is also, interested in Ship & Offshore Structures, and Clean Energy research.

Francis is an Instructor (Research) with the Ocean Safety Research Unit at the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering (Ocean & Naval) from Memorial University, as well as an MSc. in Ship & Offshore Structures from University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK), and a BSc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Kumasi, Ghana). Francis has closely two (2) decades of experience in teaching and conducting research at college/university level, and open to opportunities in engineering and management expertise consulting, to use his specialty to help solve real world problems.