The past Friday, July 17th 2020, we had the Doctoral Thesis presentation and defence by Mr. François-Xavier Faÿ entitled: 'Modelling and Control for the Oscillating Water Column in Wave Energy Conversion', co-supervised by Dr. Marga Marcos and Dr. Eider Robles. Due to the Sanitary Emergency, some members of the Thesis Committee attended virtually. The Thesis Committee was formed by Dr Eduardo F. Camacho, Dr. Asier Zubizarreta, Dr. Anne Blavette, Dr. Nicola Delmonte and Dr. Maider Santos. The Thesis got the maximum Grade and a video of the dissertation can be found at: PhD dissertation.