EERA DeepWind wishes to recognise outstanding contributions to offshore wind research, and to the conference itself, through its awards. The EERA DeepWind Science and Inovation Award was given for the very first time in 2023, on the occasion of the 20th edition of the conference. Poster awards are also given every year, for Best content and Best communication.
Science and Innovation Award
Finn Gunnar Nielsen, professor at UiB and Head of Bergen Offshore Wind Centre (BOW), is awarded the very first EERA DeepWind Science and Innovation Award. The prize recognises the efforts of researchers who have made an outstanding contribution to offshore floating wind technology. Finn Gunnar Nielsen participated in the very first DeepWind conference, in 2004, and was central to the success of the research and development leading to the very first full-scale floating wind turbine, Hywind Demo.

Special recognition
The 20th edition of the conference was also the occasion to give special recognition to some of the people working to make EERA DeepWind a success. Thanks were given to the session chairs, who review abstracts before the conference, and host the scientific sessions during the event, and review the scientific papers submitted for publication in the Journal of Physics – Conference series.

Randi Aukan (SINTEF) and Debbie Koreman van den Bergh (NTNU), who have been part of organisation of the conference for many years, were also thanked publicly for their efforts.

Poster awards
There are poster awards for best content and best presentation. The winners will be announced during the closing session of the conference. The selection will be done by a review committee. The committee will consider relevance, originality, scientific content and presentation. The award on best content is selected among the posters that are accompanied with a full paper, whereas the award on presentation is open for all posters.
Poster award winners:
2023
- Jannis Wacker, from DTU: Best Content
New model for structural optimisation of airborne wind energy systems with rotary transmission - Thomas Messmer, University of Oldenburg: Best Communication
Overview of the potential of floating wind in Europe based on metocean-data derived from ERA5-dataset - Sithik Aliyar, DTU: Best Communication
Upending of Spar type FOWT in waves: A numerical comparison with time-domain and frequency-domain solvers
2022
- Lars Ø. Bentsen, University of Oslo
Probabilistic Wind Park Power Prediction using Bayesian Deep Learning and Generative Adversarial Networks - Michael Stamm, BAM Germany
Towards automated passive thermography of wind turbine blades
2021
- Judith Boekee, University of Bergen
The potential of synthetic turbulence in large eddy simulation during stable conditions over ocean wind farms - Suraj Pawar, Oklahoma State University
Hybrid analysis and modeling for next generation of digital twins
2020
- Manuela Böhm, ForWind,
Calibrating drag coefficients with numerical optimization - Duy Tan H. Tran, NTNU
GANs assisted super-resolution simulation of atmospheric flows
2019
- Fiona D. McAuliffe, C. Desmond, R. Chester, B.Flannery, F. Judge, K. Lynch and J. Murphy, MaREI Centre, ERI, University of College Cork, Ireland
A tool to simulate decommissioning offshore wind farms - Erick F. Alves, Santiago S. Acevedo, Elisabetta Tedeschi, NTNU
Power Quality in Wind-Powered Oil and Gasplatforms
2018
- Lisa Ziegler, Ramboll/NTNU, Matthieu Rhomberg, Ramboll/NTNU/Delft University of Technology, Michael Muskulus, NTNU
Optimization of monopiles with genetic algorithms - Elena Gonzalez, Marcelo Martinez, Julio J Melero, CIRCE, Laura Valldecabres, ForWind, Helene Seyr, NTNU
On the effects of environmental conditions on wind turbine performance – an offshore case study
2017
- Lorenzo Colone, Maik Reder, Jannis Tautz-Weinert, Technical University of Denmark
Optimisation of Data Acquisition in Wind Turbines with Data-Driven Conversion Functions for Sensor Measurements - Ana Page, NTNU
A New Foundation Model for Integrated Analyses of Monopile-based Offshore Wind Turbines
2016
- Joachim Reuder, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen
Proof of concept for wind turbine wake investigations with the RPAS SUMO - Trygve Løken, NTNU
Energy systems on autonomous offshore measurement stations
2015
- Lisa Ziegler, NTNU/Siemens Wind Power, Netherlands
Sensitivity of Wave Fatigue Loads on Offshore Wind Turbines under varying Site Conditions - Rebecca Martin, EDF Energy R&D UK Centre Ltd.
Reference Cases for Benchmarking Operations and Maintenance Models for Offshore Wind Farms
2014
- Amir Nejad, NTNU
Fatigue Reliability-Based Inspection and Maintenance Planning of Gearbox Components in Wind Turbine Drivetrains - Chad Jarvis, Christian Michelsen Research AS
Interactive design of wind farm layout using CFD and model reduction
2013
- Etienne Cheynet, ENSMA, Magnus Tyrhaug, SINTEF
Investigation of droplet erosion for offshore wind turbine blade - Laura Castro-Santos, Geuffer Prado Garcia, Laboratorio Nacional de Energia (LNEG), Vicente Diaz-Casas, Universidade da Coruna
Methodology to study the life cycle cost of floating offshore wind farms
2012
- Daniel Zwick, PhD stud, NTNU
Iterative optimization approach for the design of full-height lattice towers for offshore wind turbines - Signe Schløer, Technical University of Denmark
Fully Nonlinear Wave Foricing on an Offshore Wind Turbine. Structural Response and Fatigue