Professor Athanasios Kolios

Visiting Professor

Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering

Personal statement

I joined the University of Strathclyde in 2018 as Professor in Risk and Asset Management. During my academic career I have participated in several projects related to the development, analysis and optimisation of energy systems through a balanced portfolio of research council funded, industry sponsored and specialist consultancy projects.

I have participated from the onset (2012) in the development of the largest Joint Industry Projects related to Offshore Wind, called SLIC (Structural Lifecycle Industry Collaboration), with the participation of ten wind farm developers/operators, the support of two certification authorities and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), from the initial scoping study, to leading the pre-testing phase and managing the delivery of the main scope of the project which refers to the development of updated S-N curves specific for offshore wind support structures. In 2014, I was awarded an EPSRC Grant to perform research on the structural integrity and reliability assessment of marine energy technologies and a grant in 2016 through the EPSRC Supergen wind hub to develop a framework for the extrapolation of integrity assessment from instrumented to non-instrumented units across a farm. In 2017, I have been awarded another grant from the EPSRC Supergen wind hub to develop an open access O&M tool for floating offshore wind farms. I have been the PI and technical lead for the ELECTRA project, funded by the DECC through Aerogenerator Power Limited (APL) for the development of a novel Vertical Axis Wind Turbine, with the aim of scaling up the concept to the MW scale. I am also a co-investigator on the recently awarded H2020-ROMEO project aiming to develop reliable O&M decision tools and strategies for high LCoE reduction on offshore wind as well as the EPSRC INNO-MPP (2017) project investigating challenges of floating support structures. I am also associated with the EPSRC Renewable Energy Marine Structures (REMS) CDT (2014).

I have authored more than 130 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, act as a reviewer in key journals and has chaired sessions on the Risk and Integrity Management of Energy Assets. I am a member of the board of the European Academy of Wind Energy and a member of the ISSC Offshore Renewable Energy Committee. I am a Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Publications

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Publications

Impact of operational losses on the levelized costs of energy and in the economic viability of offshore wind power projects: Bastos Sathler Kelvin Palhares, Yeter Baran, Kolios Athanasios; Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning and Policy Vol 20 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1080/15567249.2024.2437181
Impact of using text classifiers for standardising maintenance data of wind turbines on reliability calculations: Walgern Julia, Beckh Katharina, Hannes Neele, Horn Martin, Lutz Marc‐Alexander, Fischer Katharina, Kolios Athanasios; IET Renewable Power Generation Vol 18, pp. 3463-3479 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1049/rpg2.13151
A reliability-constrained optimisation framework for offshore wind turbine support structures: Rezvanipour Mohammad, Kolios Athanasios, Amirafshari Peyman, Wang Lin; International Journal of Sustainable Energy Vol 43 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1080/14786451.2024.2352786
Reliability-based leading edge erosion maintenance strategy selection framework: Contreras Lopez Javier, Kolios Athanasios, Wang Lin, Chiachio Manuel, Dimitrov Nikolay; Applied Energy Vol 358 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.122612
Reliability of electrical and hydraulic pitch systems in wind turbines based on field-data analysis: Walgern Julia, Fischer Katharina, Hentschel Paul, Kolios Athanasios; Energy Reports Vol 9, pp. 3273-3281 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2023.02.007
Effect of weather forecast uncertainty on offshore wind farm availability assessment: Kolios A, Richmond M, Koukoura S, Yeter B; Ocean Engineering Vol 285 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.115265

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Research

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Research Interests

My research interests can be summarised in the following:

Quantitative methods in engineering, decision making and risk management
Performance/Risk based design, analysis and operational management of offshore/marine energy assets
Reliability analysis using non-intrusive stochastic expansions
Integrity assessment of ageing structures
Development and optimisation of Renewable Energy Technologies
Development, application and calibration of design standards.

Projects

European training Network in intelligent prognostics and Health mAnagement in Composite structurEs (ENHAnCE) (MSCA-ITN-2019): Kolios, Athanasios (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2023
MarLEM: Maritime Logistics Engineering and Management (EMFF Blue Economy): Tezdogan, Tahsin (Principal Investigator) Demirel, Yigit Kemal (Co-investigator) Incecik, Atilla (Co-investigator) Kolios, Athanasios (Co-investigator) Zhou, Peilin (Co-investigator) Terziev, Momchil (Research Co-investigator) Wei, Yujia (Researcher); 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2023
CAMREG - Additive Manufacturing of Micro Architecture Composite - Metal Joints for Renewable Energy: Kolios, Athanasios (Principal Investigator) Lotfian, Saeid (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2021
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Wind and Marine Energy Systems and Structures: Carroll, James (Principal Investigator) Carroll, James (Principal Investigator) Leithead, Bill (Principal Investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Campos-Gaona, David (Co-investigator) Carroll, James (Co-investigator) Jamieson, Peter (Co-investigator) Kolios, Athanasios (Co-investigator) Kolios, Athanasios (Co-investigator) Leithead, Bill (Co-investigator) Leithead, Bill (Co-investigator) McDonald, Alasdair (Co-investigator) McDonald, Alasdair (Co-investigator) Mehmanparast, Ali (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2027
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Wind and Marine Energy Systems and Structures: Carroll, James (Principal Investigator) Carroll, James (Principal Investigator) Leithead, Bill (Principal Investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Campos-Gaona, David (Co-investigator) Carroll, James (Co-investigator) Jamieson, Peter (Co-investigator) Kolios, Athanasios (Co-investigator) Kolios, Athanasios (Co-investigator) Leithead, Bill (Co-investigator) Leithead, Bill (Co-investigator) McDonald, Alasdair (Co-investigator) McDonald, Alasdair (Co-investigator) Mehmanparast, Ali (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2027
REMS EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Renewable Energy Marine Structures | Sunday, Kingsley: Brennan, Feargal (Principal Investigator) Kolios, Athanasios (Co-investigator) Sunday, Kingsley (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2018 - 26-Jan-2023