Personal statement

I am a Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow and Lecturer in Wind Energy, working within the Wind Energy and Control Centre (WECC) at the Institute for Energy and Environment, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde. My primary expertise lies in mechanics and dynamics, with a focus on both novel and conventional wind energy systems and their components. Previously, I spent a year as a pre-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Mechanics and Structural Dynamics (now the Research Division of Structural Dynamics and Risk Assessment of Structures) at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria. I was awarded a PhD in Structural Dynamics and Wind Engineering through the Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems within TU Wien’s Research Cluster of Structural Mechanics and continued there as a post-doctoral researcher for an additional year.

Since my PhD, I have been deeply involved in cross-disciplinary research. My work spans diverse areas, including seismic performance analysis of building structures, bridge wind vibration mitigation, wind load identification, vibration testing, operational modal analysis, fatigue damage prediction, and residual life estimation. I have been fortunate to receive several scholarship and funding, including a four-year fully funded PhD and an abroad research fund from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). I have also held visiting scholar positions in wind engineering and energy centres at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and Kyoto University, Japan. Additionally, I have been recognised with conference grants and awards, such as the WindEurope Exhibition and Conference Poster Award in Bilbao, Spain, in 2019. I leverage these experiences to encourage my students to pursue similar opportunities and engage actively in the research community.

I joined Strathclyde's WECC in January 2018. My research interests include wind turbine lifetime extension, mechanical loads analysis of on/offshore wind turbine support structures, blade and drivetrain, testing and modelling methods for blades damping, modelling and analysis of rotary airborne wind systems, light-weighting and structural optimisation of direct-drive generator systems (also with application to aerospace electrical machine structures) as well as dynamic improvement of wind turbine drivetrains.

I am open to supervising PhD students with an interest in these areas of research.