Prof. John Ringwood
Director of COER
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Dr. Erivelton Nepomuceno
Associate Professor
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Dr. Oliver Mason
Associate Professor Dept of Mathematics and Statistics
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Dr. Vahid Fakhari
Assistant Professor Dept of Electronic Engineering
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Prof. Fabiano Pallonetto
Professor
School of Business, Hamilton Institute, Innovation Value Institute
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Dr. Joel Ferguson
Assistant Professor MEIC
Maynooth International Engineering College
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Carrie Anne Barry
COER Lab Manager
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Dr. Andrei Ermakov
SFI-IRC Pathway Research Fellow

Maximising the power capture from cyclorotor wave energy converters (MaxRotorWEC)

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Dr. Paul Christian Tesso Woafo
Postdoctoral researcher
Work on the INFINITY project to develop a highly efficient WEC with a PTO capable of providing instant force control to maximise power output, reduce loads and improve lifetime and reliability. 
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Dr. Arthur Scolari Fagundes
Postdoctoral researcher

Simultaneous stabilisation and wave energy harvesting for a floating offshore wind/wave platform.

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Dr. Colm Fitzgerald
Postdoctoral researcher

Control strategy optimisation of a dynamic passive controller.

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Dr. Zechuan Lin
Postdoctoral researcher

Wave energy technologies and electrical machine control and design.

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Dr. Eugenio Martin Gelos
Postdoctoral researcher

Control co-design for the EU Horizon Seawater Hydraulic (SHY) project.

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Dr. Alejandro Gonzalez Esculpi
Postdoctoral researcher

Enhancing WEC reliability

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Dr. Hafiz Ahsan Said
Postdoctoral researcher

Economic performance of wave energy systems

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Dr. Pedro Fornaro
Postdoctoral researcher

Control co-design for ocean energy conversion

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Dr. Bingyong Guo
COER Honorary Research Fellow
Affiliation: School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
email Bingyong
Dr. Siyuan Zhan
COER Honorary Research Fellow
Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin
email Siyuam
Dr. Yerai Peña-Sanchez
COER Honorary Research Fellow
Affiliation: Energy Department, University of the Basque Country
email Yerai
Dr. Tom Kelly
COER Honorary Research Fellow
Affiliation: Dundalk IT and the Centre for Renewable Energy DKIT
email Tom
Dr. Nicolas Faedo
COER Honorary Research Fellow
Affiliation: Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
email Nicolas
Dr. Demián García-Violini
COER Honorary Research Fellow
Affiliation: Department of Science and Technology, National University of Quilmes (UNQ), Argentina.
email Demián

Ilias Stasinopoulos
Ph.D. Student

A new control strategy for cyclorotor WECs.

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Shuai Chen
Ph.D. Student

Control co-design of wave energy converters - mooring systems.

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Amin Ziaei
Ph.D. Student

Wave energy converter lifetime enhancement.

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Samara Santos
Ph.D. Student
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Pietro Desole
PhD Student

Energy management

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Matheus Mulherchen Golz Costa
Ph.D. Student

Simultaneous stabilization and wave energy harvesting for a floating offshore wind/wave platform

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Josefredo Gadelha da Silva
Ph.D. Student

control strategy for simultaneous stabilization and wave energy harvesting for a floating offshore wind/wave platform

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Agustina Skiarski
Ph.D. Student

Optimal control for tidal barrage operation

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Behnam Mohseni Gharyehsafa
Ph.D. Student

Energy flexibility and district and city levels

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Thalita Emanuelle de Nazaré
Ph.D. Student

Control co-design

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Nahia Martinez Iturricastillo
Ph.D. Student

Long term wave characterisation and climate impact on marine renewables

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Iain McLeod
Ph.D. Student

Development of a wave powered data buoy.

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Sharanya Santosh
Master's student

Development of surrogate models and data-driven approaches for analysing CFD simulations of wave energy converters

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Dr. Josh Davidson
Former Deputy Director of COER
Virginie Rolland
Former intern 2025
Glenn Marhadour
Former intern 2025
Jackson Wills
Former visiting researcher
Lisheng Yang
Former visiting researcher
Thomas Hogan
Former visiting researcher 2025
Niels Dupuy Junet
Former intern 2025
Francesco Di Vittorio
Former COER intern 2025
Mahdiyeh Farajvand
Former PhD student 2024
Dr. Ariadne Bertolin
Former postdoctoral researcher
Manal Meckelleche
Former PhD student 2024
Dr. Barnabas Ehimare
Former PhD student 2024
Simon Leboucher
Former intern 2024
Dr. Facundo Mosquera
Former postdoc 2024
Dr. Zain Ali Anwar
Former postdoc 2024
Clement Dupuy
Former intern 2024
Markel Aristegui
Former intern 2024
Dr. Marco Rosati
Former PhD student 2024
Dr. Jander Santos
Former Research Assistant 2024
Augusto Conrado Sarda
Former PhD student
Jack Rose Butcher
Former intern
Zechuan Lin
Former visiting PhD student
Julien Gosselin
Former intern 2023
Gaston Vergara-Hermosilla
Former PhD student
Vincent Herve
Former intern 2023
Simon Thomas
Former PhD student
Nathan Rodriguez
Former intern 2023
Ander Perurena
Former intern 2023
Jacopo Ramello
Former intern 2023
Dr. Kumars Mahmoodi
Former postdoc 2023
Lucas Nardo
Former intern 2023
Maria Luisa Celesti
Former intern 2022-2023
Dr. Youcef Belkhier
Former postdoc
Dr. Joao Henriques
Former visiting academic
Corinne Smith
Former intern 2022
Mohammad Sameti
Former postdoc 2022
Esteban Perraud
Former intern 2022
Cecile Bertrand
Former intern 2022
Lucille Antoine
Former intern 2022
Alexis Brochain
Former intern 2022
Edoardo Pasta
Former visiting PhD student 2022
Maialen Agirre Aspiazu
Former intern 2022
Dr. Jitendra Jain
Former postdoctoral researcher 2022
Dr. Valerio Graszioso
Former postdoctoral researcher
Dr. Yerai Pena Sanchez
Former postdoc
Benjamin Bruel
Former intern 2021
Louis Martin
Former COER intern 2021
Alice Marie
Former intern 2021
Xabier Goni-Hernandex
Former intern 2021
Dr. Mustafa Abdelrahman
Former postdoctoral researcher 2021
Qusai El Moosa
Former Intern 2021
Drakoulis Goudis
Former PhD student 2021
Dr. Nicolas Faedo
Former PhD student 2020
Jake Cunningham
Former MSc student 2020
Dr. Fernando Jaramillo Lopez
Former postdoctoral researcher 2020
Christian Windt
Former PhD student 2020
PhD - high-fidelity numerical hydrodynamic modeling of Wave Energy Systems.
Dr. Liguo Wang
Former postdoctoral researcher 2019
Diego Moens de Hase
Former intern 2020
Louis Cogan
Former intern 2020
Dr. Demiàn Garcià-Violini
Former postdoctoral researcher 2019
Prof. Alain Ulazia
Visiting Professor
Jean-Christopher Gilloteaux
former postdoc
Giorgio Bacelli
former PhD student
Francesco Fusco
former PhD student
Dr. Ronan Costello
former postdoc
Dr. Jochem Weber
former senior researcher
Alix Untrau
Former intern
Leonardo Pio Pistillo
Former intern
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Hakim Bouhali
Former intern
Dr. Simone Giorgi
Former PhD student
Dr. Francesco Paparella
Former PhD student
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Dr. Alexis Merigaud
Former PhD student
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Paula Garcia-Rosa
Former Postdoc
Dr. Giuseppe Giorgi
Former PhD student
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Boris Teillant
Former research student
Gary Nolan
Former PhD student
Dr. Markel Penalba Retes
Former PhD student
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Dr. Thomas Kelly
Former PhD student
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Michel Barbier
Former Intern
Francisco Dorespiuma
Former Intern
Jost Kemper
Former Intern
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Benazzou Akram
Former Intern
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Philip Baltisky
Former research student
Riccardo Novo
Former Intern
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Sebastien Olaya
Former postdoc
Davide Padeletti
Former research student
Iain Keaney
Former PhD student
Clément Auger
Former Intern
Ilaria Leoni
Former Intern
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Louis Papillion
Former Intern
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Michael O'Cathain
Former research student