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Conference date: November 30 - December 1, 2023   (Note: Conference excursion to Oil Museum will be arranged on November 30)

Members of Conference Organizing Committee
COTech 2023 Conference  

Hirpa G. Lemu
Chairperson of the Organizing Committee

Professor, Mechanical Engineering

E-mail: Hirpa.g.lemu@uis.no

Mechanical design, additive manufacturing, design for additive fabrication, simulation-driven design optimization, nonlinear finite element analysis, multibody dynamics, material modelling, composite materials 

                 Dimitrios Pavlou
Professor, Mechanical Systems
E-mail: dimitrios.g.pavlou@uis.no 

Applied mechanics, fracture mechanics, finite and boundary elements, structural dynamics, composite materials and pipeline technology

Muk Chen Ong

Professor, Marine Technology & Marine Operations

E-mail: muk.c.ong@uis.no

 

CFD with Turbulence Modelling, Marine Operations and Installation, Hydrodynamics on Offshore and Subsea Structures, Scour and Sediment Transport, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Structural Dynamic Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbine, Stochastic Approach for Marine Applications.

Ove Mikkelsen

Assoc. Professor, Mechanical Engineering

E-mail: ove.mikkelsen@uis.no


Modeling and analysis of mechanical systems and structures, finite element methods, modeling and analysis of wind loads. 

Yihan Xing

Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Subsea Technology

E-mail: yihan.xing@uis.no 

Modelling of complex engineering systems, Engineering product design and development, Marine and subsea technology, Pressure vessels technology, Wind turbine engineering, Gearbox and drivetrain engineering. 

Sudath C. Siriwardane
Professor, Structural Engineering
E-mail: sasc.siriwardane@uis.no

 

Fatigue of steel structures, Structural integrity and health monitoring, Nonlinear structural analysis and design, Buckling of thin-walled structures

Jasna Bogunovic Jakobsen

Professor, offshore structures

E-mail: jasna.b.jakobsen@uis.no

Structural dynamics, Wind loads due to turbulence, Aeroelasticity, Wind and structural health monitoring, Remote sensing of wind.

 

 
Session Coordinators E-mail Topic Area (Session)
1. Assoc. Prof. Charlotte Obhrai
    Assoc. Prof. Knut Erik Giljarhus
Charlotte.obhrai@uis.no 
knut.e.giljarhus@uis.no
Wind engineering and industrial aerodynamics
2. Prof. Yihan Xing
   Dr.
Guang Yin
yihan.xing@uis.no  
guang.yin@uis.no
Advanced Computational Methods and Applications in Marine, Subsea and Offshore Technology
3. Prof. Dimitrios Pavlou
   Prof. Sudath C. Siriwardane
   Dr Tiago J. F. Marques Ferradosa
dimitrios.g.pavlou@uis.no
sasc.siriwardane@uis.no
tferradosa@fe.up.pt
Computational Mechanics and Structural Integrity
4. Adjunct Prof. Ersdal Gerhard
   Assoc. Prof. Yanyan Sha
gerhard.ersdal@uis.no
yanyan.sha@uis.no
Structural safety, Integrity management and Life Extension
5. Prof. Emeritus Ove T. Gudmestad otgudmestad@gmail.com Cold Climate Region Technology
6. Prof. Tor H. Hemmingsen tor.hemmingsen@uis.no Materials, Corrosion and Battery Technology
7. Assoc. Prof. Idriss El-thalji
   
Prof. Yiliu Liu
idriss.el-thalji@uis.no
yiliu.liu@ntnu.no
Smart Operations and Maintenance
8. Prof. Hirpa Lemu
   
Prof. Andrés García Granada   
hirpa.g.lemu@uis.no
andres.garcia@iqs.url.edu
Design Optimization, Additive Manufacturing Technologies & applications
9. Prof. Mohsen Assadi mohsen.assadi@uis.no Smart Energy Storage, Integration and Utilization

 

Members of Conference Scientific Committee

Name Affiliation, Country
Prof. Henning Agerskov Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
Ass. Prof. Paul Akangah North Carolina A&T State University, USA
Prof. Abbas Barabady The Arctic University of Norway (UiT), Norway
Assoc. Prof. Kostas Belibassakis  National Techn. Univ. of Athens, Greece
Prof. André De Boer University of Twente, The Netherlands
Prof. Robert Brown Momorial University (MU), Canada
Prof. Hermes Carvalho Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ass. Prof. José Miguel Castro Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
Assoc. Prof. Charlotte Obhrai University of Stavanger, Norway
Prof. Nianzhong Chen Tianjing University, China
Dr. Etienne Cheynet University of Stavanger, Norway
Dr. José António Correia Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
Prof. Sreekanta Das University of Windsor, Canada
Prof. Reggie Davidrajuh University of Stavanger, Norway
Assoc. Prof. Idris El- Thalji University of Stavanger, Norway
Prof. Andrés García Granada Industrial Engineering, IQS School of Engineering , Spain
Adj. Prof. Gerhard Ersdal  University of Stavanger, Norway
Dr. Tiago Fazeres-Ferradosa University of Porto, Portugal
Prof. David Fuhrman Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
Prof. Koh Chan Ghee National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
Prof. Ove T. Gudmestad University of Stavanger, Norway
Prof. Rui Miranda Guedes University of Porto, Portugal
Adj. Prof Sverre Haver University of Stavanger, Norway
Prof. Tor Hemmingsen University of Stavanger, Norway
Prof. Bjørn H. Hjertager University of Stavanger, Norway
Assoc. Prof. Xiaoping Huang Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Prof. Lars Erik Holmedal Norwegian Univ. of Sci. and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Prof. Jasna B. Jakobsen University of Stavanger, Norway
Prof. Hrvoje Jasak University of Zagreb, Croatia
Adj. Prof. Daniel Karunakaran University of Stavanger, Norway
Prof. Emeritus Ivar Langen University of Stavanger, Norway
Assoc. Prof. Lin Li   University of Stavanger, Norway
Dr. Inge Lotsberg DNV GL Oslo, Norway
Assoc. Prof. Stylianos Markolefas  Techn. Univ. of Central Greece, Greece
Prof. Tore Markset University of Stavanger, Norway
Assoc. Prof. Ove Mikkelsen University of Stavanger, Norway
Dr Per Olav Moslett DNV, Norway
Assoc. Prof. Pantelis Nikolakopoulos University of Patras, Greece
Prof. Håkan Nilsson Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Professor Ove Njå  University of Stavanger, Norway
Dr. Piotr Omenzetter University of Aberdeen, UK
Prof. Muk Chen Ong University of Stavanger, Norway
Dr. Theodosios Papathanasiou Brunel University, London, UK
 Prof. Dimitrios Pavlou University of Stavanger, Norway
Prof. Demosthenes Polyzos University of Patras, Greece
Assoc. Prof. Amir Safari University of South-Eastern Norway
Prof. Dr. Paulo Rosa-Santos Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
Assoc. Prof. Yanyan Sha University of Stavanger, Norway
Dr. Srinivas Sriramula University of Aberdeen, UK
Ass. Prof. Hodjat Shiri Memorial University (MU), Canada
Prof. Jonas T. Snæbjörnsson University of Stavanger, Norway
Prof. Sudath Siriwardane  University of Stavanger, Norway
Prof. Dr. Francisco Taveira-Pinto Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
Assoc. Prof. Yiannis Tsompanakis Technical University of Crete, Greece
Prof. Kesheng Wang Norwegian Univ. of Sci. and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Prof. Qian Xudong National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
Prof. Stefanos Zaoutsos University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly, Greece
Prof. Sigmund Kyrre Ås, Norwegian Univ. of Sci. and Technology (NTNU), Norway