People

PostDocs

On-going PostDoc projects

None currently

Former PostDocs

• Dr Jing Dong (2022-2023)
• Dr Jacobus Bernardus de Vaal (2018-2021)
• Dr Gordon Stewart (2015-2017)
• Dr Karl Merz (2012-2013)
• Dr Paul Thomassen (2012)

PhD students

On-going PhD projects

• Afolarinwa David Oyegbile
  Holistic design optimization of wind turbine structures (NorthWind FME)
• Adriana Correia da Silva
  Structural design and optimization of a novel wind turbine concept (H2020 XROTOR)
• Sebastian Drexler
  Design optimization of modular support structures for offshore wind turbines with focus on reliability (NOWRIC)

Former PhD students

• Eva Melina Schmitt
  Advanced design and optimized cost of mooring systems (H2020 FLOAWER ITN)
• Wojciech Popko (2020)
  Dynamics of offshore wind turbine support structures influenced by sea ice loads (Fraunhofer IWES)
• Helene Seyr (2020)
  Stochastic wind park modelling and maintenance scheduling under uncertainty - a serious game (H2020 AWESOME ITN)
• Lars Einar Stieng (2020)
  Robust optimization of offshore wind turbine support structures (DSF ABYSS)
• Tu Ying (2018)
  Wave slamming forces on offshore wind turbine jacket structures
• Lisa Ziegler (2018)
  Assessment of monopiles for lifetime extension of offshore wind turbines
• Sebastian Schafhirt (2017)
  Dynamic analysis and structural optimization of support structures for bottom-fixed offshore wind turbines
• Mayilvahanan Alagan Chella (2016)
  Breaking wave characteristics and breaking wave forces on slender cylinders
• Daniel Zwick (2015)
  Simulation and optimization in offshore wind turbine structural analysis
• Haiyan Long (2014)
  A bottom-fixed lattice tower for offshore wind turbines
• Lars Fredrik Sandquist (2013)
  Individual pitch control for large scale wind turbines
• Marit Reiso (2013)
  The tower shadow effect in downwind turbines
• Eric van Buren
  Foundation systems for bottom-fixed offshore wind turbines

MSc students

On-going MSc projects

MSc students at NTNU start in January. For foreign students that want to take a master thesis with us at NTNU, the dates can be arranged flexibly.

• Friedrich Jersch
  Tentative title: Optimized structural model of floating foundation flexibility in FOWT design (TU Delft / Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy)
• Olav Katle Fleten
  Tentative title: Floating wind turbine power cable optimization
• Matthijs Wakkerman
  Tentative title: Influence of wave loading variance on safety factor calibration for offshore wind support structures (TU Delft / Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy)
• Vicente Camilla Modion
  Tentative title: Large towers for wind turbines

Former MSc students

• Signe Fischer Lambertsen (2023)
  Wave statistics with constrained sampling
• Gudrun Østling (2023)
  Regulating an irregular sea
• Glen Oumellal (2023)
  Prediction of quiescent periods in linear wave theory with the Prony method
• Ane Bjerkebæk (2023)
  Design sensitivity analysis of the X-rotor offshore wind turbine jacket structure
• Thomander Blichfeldt (2023)
  Structural optimization of the crossbar on the X-Rotor offshore wind turbine concept
• Jannis Wacker (2022)
  Structural optimisation of airborne wind energy systems with rotary transmission (DTU Wind Energy)
• Francesco Castellino (2022)
  Non-local effects of support structure diameter on wave induced fatigue loads of monopile-based offshore wind turbines (TU Delft / Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy)
• Saif Ansari (2022)
  Optimal logistics and spare parts planning for offshore wind farm operations (DTU Wind Energy)
• Hamad Alawi (2021)
  Structural reliability of fixed jacket of offshore wind turbine (University of Stavanger)
• Jaehyeun Lee (2019)
  Fatigue assessment of offshore wind turbines using measurement of individual turbines and machine learning techniques (TU Delft / Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy)
• Esther Dornhelm (2018)
  Simplified wind farm design as a serious game
• Alahyar Koochekali (2018)
  Improved lumping of offshore wind turbine fatigue load cases
• Francois Nicolas Emmanuel Million (2018)
  Value of virtual sensing on offshore windturbines
• Ruben Martinez Ochagavia (2018)
  The compliant tower concept for offshore wind turbines
• Odd Eiken (2017)
  Fatigue damage in offshore wind turbines using probability density evolution
• Cody Owen (2017)
  Ice-induced vibrations of vertically sided model structures
• Jorge Mendoza Espinosa (2017)
  Evaluation of the fatigue resistance of offshore jacket joints by numerical approaches
• Nikolaos Xyloudis (2017)
  Gradient-based optimization of jacket support structure for offshore wind turbines with the local approach
• Mareike Leimeister (2016)
  Rational upscaling and modelling of a semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine
• Benedicte Hexeberg Hammerstad (2016)
  Sensitivities in fatigue analysis of offshore wind turbine support structures
• Matthieu B Rhomberg (2016)
  Optimizing the structural lifetime of monopile-based offshore wind turbines with genetic algorithms
• Lisa Sabine Ziegler (2015)
  Probabilistic estimation of fatigue loads on monopile-based offshore wind turbines
• Marc Garcia Llado (2015)
  Structural reliability analysis and robust design of offshore wind turbine support structures
• Qi Wang (2015)
  Ice-induced vibrations under continuous brittle crushing for an offshore wind turbine
• Konrad Robert Hryniewicki (2015)
  Robustness of support structures for offshore wind turbines
• Einar Sortland Sande (2015)
  Fatigue assessment of offshore wind turbine support structures with the frequency domain method
• Ole Edvard Bakkom (2015)
  Computer-aided optimization of an offshore jacket for a wind turbine with a simplified load model
• Ignacio Eugenio Rausa Heredia (2014)
  Characterization of wave slamming forces for a truss structure within the framework of the WaveSlam project
• Niels Verkaik (2014)
  Comparison of impulse based substructuring and fully coupled analysis for an offshore wind turbine
• Marek Goldschmidt (2014)
  Coupled mooring systems for floating wind farms
• Johan Henrik Martens (2014)
  Topology optimization of a jacket for an offshore wind turbine
• Junaid Anwar Syed (2014)
  Simplified dynamics of offshore structures
• Annika Laks (2014)
  Mooring system design for floating wind turbines
• Johan Magne Hembre (2014)
  Stochastic analysis of an offshore wind turbine using a simplified dynamic model
• Eirik Christensen (2014)
  Multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization of support structures for offshore wind turbines
• Kasper Sandal (2014)
  Improved design of the support structure for the NOWITECH 10 MW Reference Turbine
• Fredrik Haug (2013)
  Optimization of an active heave compensated (AHC) offshore knuckle jib crane
• Lucia Barcena Pasamontes & Fernando Gomez Torres (2014)
  Topology optimization of jacket support structure with genetic algorithm
• Live Salvesen Fevåg (2012)
  Influence of marine growth on support structure design for offshore wind turbines
• Håvard Molde (2012)
  Simulation-based optimization of lattice support structures for offshore wind energy
• Wei Gong (2011)
  Lattice tower design of offshore wind turbine support structures
• Torbjørn Ruud Hagen (2011)
  Numerical simulations of flow past a truss tower with an evaluation of tower shadow models for wind turbines
• Matti Scheu (2011)
  Maintenance strategies for large offshore wind farms (University of Stuttgart)
• Camilla Volnes (2011)
  Integrated analysis of scour effects for an offshore wind turbine truss structure
• Anders Kjetså & Lars Jørgen Saaghus (2010)
  Local dynamics of offshore wind turbine jacket sub-structures

Visiting scientists / researchers

• Wojciech Popko
• JD Walsh
• Kok Hon Chew
• Mathias Brommundt
• Jan Dubois
• Ludwig Krause