Resume

• Develop, implement, manage and evaluate the company's technology roadmap and strategies.
• Develop, implement, manage and evaluate new applications for the Aerosense system and other hardware and software that RTDT develops, installs or works with.
• Meet and coordinate with external partners who are involved in the development, supply and manufacture of the Aerosense technology.
• Manage the company's human and technological resources.

Researcher at the Wind Energy group, in the Institute for Energy Technology:

• Mistery project (2023-2026), funded by SNSF in Switzerland and ANR in France for
  2mCHF:
  • modelling and estimation of unsteady aerodynamic flow at high Reynolds number,
  • coordinator of the project with 4 partners: OST, ETHZ, CentraleSup´elec, and Ecole
    Centrale Nantes,
  • aerodynamic experiments in a large-scale wind tunnel at CSTB in Nantes, France
    on a blade section with a chord of 1.25m.
• Aerosense project (2020-2023), , funded by SNSF and Innosuisse as a Bridge - Discovery
  programme for 1.6 mCHF:
  • developed an aerodynamic measurement system to be installed on wind turbine blades which is thin, minimally intrusive, easy to install, low-power, with wireless transmission, comprising 40 pressure sensors, 10 microphones and an inertial measurement unit,
  • responsible for the technical development of the aerodynamic measurement system: close communication with electronic researchers, mechanical engineers and computer researchers,
  • developed the corrections and calibration methods to acquire accurate measurements.
• Project leader of a research and development collaboration with a Swiss company, Netico, funded by the Swiss Innovation Agency on machine learning and in-field measurements.
• Supervised bachelor and master projects.

Post-doc at UNFoLD, in the Mechanical Engineering Institute:

Experimental study of the aerodynamic performance of vertical axis wind turbine in the SMART-H project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

• developed low-order models of aerodynamic performance,
• prepared, carried-out and post processed experiments.

Proposed and supervised master and bachelor projects. Contributed to courses and tutorials in fluid mechanics and aerodynamics courses.

Safety coordinator of the lab.

PhD student and teaching assistant in the Mechanical and Energetical Engineering in Naval Environment department (M2EN):

Experimental study of fluid-structure interaction on downwind sails:

• developed time-resolved instrumented system onboard a sailing boat measuring sail shape, wind, loads, aerodynamic pressures and boat motions,
• co-developed and used custom-made pressure sensors with the University of Auckland,
• developed calibration and measurement algorithms for custom-made load cells and inertial measurement units,
• designed a unique photogrammetric system to measure flying shape of downwind sails,
• planned and conducted full-scale in-situ testing, led a team of 6 persons,

Taught 100h per year of lectures, tutorials and practical work to naval officer trainees (master level) and to master students.

3 month secondment at the Yacht Research Unit in the Mechanical Engineering department, to conduct wind tunnel and full-scale experiments in a UK-France-NZ collaboration project SailingFluids funded by the European Union's FP7-people and by the Royal Society of New Zealand.

• designed structure and general arrangement for various types of vessels such as dredgers, heavy lift vessels, offshore installation vessels, mega yachts,
• wrote reports and technical drawings in compliance with guidelines and classification societies,
• analysed seakeeping for feasibility studies of offshore operations.