Anika Manz is a Marine Scientist with multidisciplinary background in Marine/Environmental Sciences and Communication. Her research activities and interests have a focus on coastal risk assessment, numerical modeling and coastal flooding prediction systems. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany, in Technical Journalism and Environmental Sciences and a Master’s degree in Marine and Coastal Systems from the University of Algarve, Portugal. During her dissertation she worked on the To-SEAlert project (Ref. PTDC/EAMOCE/31207/2017), where she applied a numerical model in order to estimate wave overtopping at the harbour of Ericeira. After graduation, she received a FCT research fellowship for the EW-Coast project (Ref. ALGLISBOA-01-145-FEDER-028657) at the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering in Lisbon (LNEC), where she worked on the implementation of an early warning system for coastal risks induced by storms. Her work was presented at several national and international conferences (10as Jornadas de Engenharia Costeira e Portuária, Portugal 2022; 7AS JORNADAS DE ENGENHARIA HIDROGRÁFICA / 2AS JORNADAS LUSO-ESPANHOLAS DE HIDROGRAFIA, Portugal 2022; Littoral 22, Portugal; Enmc/Ectm/Mcsul/Semengo Conference, Brazil 2022). Furthermore, she published a research article with first authorship in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10121881) and submitted another manuscript for publication in the Latin-American Journal of Computing.