EERA DeepWind

Marte Mjøs Persen was appointed Minister of Petroleum and Energy for Norway on 14 October 2021. She was mayor of Bergen from 2015 to the fall of 2021, when she was elected as member of parliament for the Norwegian Labour party. She sits on the central board of the Labour party and is leader of the party for Vestland county. She studied litterature and sociology, and has a bachelor’s degree in cultural and social sciences from the University of Bergen.

Adrian Timbus is the Head of Portfolio and Strategic Marketing at Hitachi Energy. He has been with the company since 2007, where he has focused on helping to solve what he regards as one of humanity’s biggest challenges – sustainable energy. He has contributed to this quest by helping to develop and implement strategic solutions across the renewables and power systems sectors. Adrian is also the Chairman of the European Technology and Innovation Platform – ETIP Wind – advising  European institutions on the future direction of wind and renewable power.

Dr. Lena Kitzing is Associate Professor and Head of Section of Society, Markets and Policy at DTU Wind Energy. She is leading a multi-disciplinary team concerned with the transition to a sustainable energy system in a socially acceptable and economically feasible way. Lena has 12 years of experience in research, with a specialisation in energy economics and policy instrument design. Prior to that, she has worked for 5 years in the energy industry, amongst other things in Corporate Finance and Business Development for Ørsted. She participated in at least 15 international research and public research consultancy projects, was acting project coordinator of the H2020 project AURES, is lead contributor in IEA Wind Task 26, and board member of EERA Joint Programme Wind, and coordinating the sub-programme on “Planning & Deployment, social, environmental and economic issues”.

Peter Eecen is R&D manager at TNO and determines the wind research strategy for a group of 55 researchers in offshore wind energy. Peter is internationally active in EERA, IEA, MEASNET, ETIPWind, and European projects. He is coordinator of EERA Joint Programme Wind Energy, a collaboration of the 53 largest research groups on wind energy in Europe. Peter performed research in modelling wind and waves, resource assessments, uncertainties in wind measurements, sensor innovations, remote sensing, operation and maintenance, wakes and aerodynamics, wind farm control and grid integration. He was responsible for measurements on full-scale wind farms and the ECN scale wind farm. Currently the developments that Peter pursues are besides upscaling wind turbines, the integration of wind power in the energy system (TNO’s SWITCH field lab) and the impact of wind power on ecology (TNO’s environmental field lab).

Geir Olav Berg is Chief technical officer and Senior Vice President engineering at Aker Offshore Wind. He is responsible for aligning technology needs with Aker Offshore Wind strategy and growth targets, including research and implementation. Mr. Berg has more than 25 years of experience from the offshore industry. His previous leadership roles include Head of Engineering in the Aker Solutions floating wind business, as well as numerous management positions as VP of Engineering devoted to subsea technology and project execution in the Aker companies. Mr. Berg holds an MSc in Naval Architecture with focus on Cybernetic/Robotics from NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Dr. Amy Robertson is the Offshore Wind Group manager at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the United States, where she has worked since 2010. At NREL, she leads activities focused on advancing offshore wind design capabilities and practices. She is the project leader for IEA Wind Task 30, an international research project called OC6 focused on the verification/validation of offshore wind modeling tools; and the ATLANTIS FOCAL project, which is focused on advancing floating wind scaled-model testing to enable the validation of control co-design methods and technologies. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado; and a B.S. in Engineering Sciences from Trinity University.

Professor Young-Ho LEE, is at the division of mechanical engineering, Korea Maritime & Ocean University(KMOU), Busan, Republic of Korea. He received his B.E. (1980), and M.E(1982) from KMOU and acquired a Ph.D.(1992) from Univ. of Tokyo, Japan. His main research areas have been focusing on the aerodynamic turbine design by experimentation and CFD analysis in the field of wind, wave and tidal current marine energy, micro hydro power, off-shore mechanical energy storage systems (ESS). He is also interested in the international collaboration activities on the renewable energy researches by globally networking with the developing countries to share the advanced technologies for the future sustainable growth and development. He has recently stepped into a 4-year research project consortium, mainly responsible for the coupled dynamics stability analysis of the MW class semi-submersible offshore wind floating platform.

Jon has been with Norwegian Energy Partners since 2009 and is responsible for our work on wind and solar power. He has a long career in financial and strategic advisory, including to the energy industry, and is today supporting the growth of the Norwegian offshore wind industry internationally. Jon is educated in Germany as a Diplom-Kaufmann (MBA).

Hanne Wigum is Manager of Offshore Wind Technology at Equinor. She has a PhD and post doc in catalysis from Chemical Engineering at NTNU. In her career at Equinor (earlier known as Statoil) her focus has been to develop new commercial solutions for a large number of technical areas. Together with her team she is currently focused on developing new profitable solutions for offshore wind, both bottom-fixed and floating.

Dr. ir. Matthijs Soede has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Delft University of Technology. He began his career at SenterNovem, an agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands, advising companies, research organisations and universities on European programmes for research and development. In 2008, he was seconded to Industrial Technologies directorate in DG Research of the European Commission. After his secondment, he joined the European Commission as Senior Policy Officer in the Clean Energy Transition unit of DG Research and Innovation and at the moment responsible for offshore renewable energy technologies. He is representing the European Commission in the EIA Renewable Energy Working Party, the IEA TCP on Wind and is vice-chair of the IEA TCP on Ocean Energy Systems. Since 2021 member of the MI Clean Hydrogen Mission co-leads team and recently appointed as Mission Director.

Dr. Yongqian LIU’s main research and teaching interests are the theory and technologies on Wind Power Plant Design, Control, Operation and Maintenance. Dr. LIU got his PhD on Production Automation at Nancy 1 University in France and PhD on Hydropower Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China in 2002 from a joint PhD program, and got his Master’s Degree in 1992 and Bachelor’s Degree in 1986 on Hydropower Engineering at North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power. Professor LIU has 35 years of teaching and research experience on Wind Power and Hydro Power Engineering. He was a founder of the Bachelor’s programme “Wind Energy and Power Engineering”, and led more than 50 national and international research projects on wind and hydro power. He is the Principal Investigator of China Norway joint research project：CONWIND (Research on Smart Operation Control Technologies for Offshore Wind Farm). His academic achievements includes 140 peer reviewed research papers, 35 invention patents, and a National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology. He was a Lead Author of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).

Arvid Nesse is head of Marine Energy Test Centre (Metcentre) – a global leading test center for floating wind. He is also head of the Norwegian Offshore Wind Cluster – a membership organization with 340 members. The Norwegian Offshore Wind Cluster and the Marine Energy Test Centre are connected as one organization.

Trond Kvamsdal is a Professor with the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and Chair of the Northwind research centre’s Scientific Advisory Committee. His positions at NTNU are within computational mathematics, i.e., development of new theories/methods within applied mathematics and numerical analysis to make robust and efficient numerical software programs for challenging applications in science and technology. The main area of application is computational mechanics, i.e., both solid/structural and uid mechanics relevant for civil, mechanical, marine, and petroleum engineering as well as biomechanics, geophysics, and renewable energy. He received the IACM Fellow Award (International Association for Computational Mechanics), in 2010, and was an elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA), in 2017.

John Olav Giæver Tande is Chief Scientist and Research Manager at SINTEF Energy Research (Norway), and a pioneer in floating offshore wind energy. He is the director of the NorthWind research centre, an 8 year, 31.5 million EUR research centre working on innovations to make wind power cheaper, more efficient, and more sustainable. From 2009 to 2017, he was the Director of NOWITECH (Norwegian Research Centre for Offshore Wind Technology). Both centres have been funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN) and national/international industry. John Olav Giæver Tande received the Mission Innovation Champion Award at the fourth Mission Innovation ministerial meeting in Vancouver, Canada, in May 2019.