JABACO Invited Speakers
Professor Feargal Brennan
Professor Feargal Brennan has James Blyth Chair in Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering department. His area of expertise is structural integrity and its application to ships, offshore renewables and the Oil & Gas sector. He has published over one hundred and fifty papers in peer reviewed technical journals and conferences and sit on numerous national and international committees concerning structural integrity and offshore renewable energy.
Professor Brennan is the director of the Cranfield - Oxford - Strathclyde Renewable Energy Marine Structures (REMS) Centre for Doctoral Training and in addition to leading a number of large industry and EPSRC research programmes such as CAMREG. He is investigator of both Supergen Wind and Supergen Marine (UKCMER) EPSRC initiatives
Professor Torgeir Moan
Torgeir Moan is a Professor Emeritus of Marine Technology, and has been head of the Department of Marine Technology, member of the board of directors of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Director of a Norwegian centre of research excellence CeSOS. Dr. Moan has served on the Royal Inquiry Commission of the Alexander L. Kielland accident and other accident inquiries and on various committees for the industry and standardization organisations for offshore structures (e.g. ISO); wind turbines (IEC) and floating bridges (NPRA). For 5 years he served as the inaugural adjunct Keppel professor at the National University of Singapore and has honorary academic positions at HEU, DLUT, Zhejiang U., Shanghai JiaoTong U. and Tsinghua U., Shenzhen campus in China.
Professor Moan’s main disciplines are structural analysis and design, with a focus on stochastic dynamic analysis and structural integrity assessment. He has carried out research as well as engineering design and analyses of innovative concepts of ships, oil and gas platforms, floating bridges as well as offshore wind turbines and wave energy converters.
Professor Moan has authored or co-authored more than 700 journal and peer-reviewed conference papers and a book entitled “Stochastic dynamic analysis of marine structures”. His google scholar h-index is 49. He has supervised more than 400 and 80 candidates in their MSc and PhD thesis work, respectively. This includes 16 PhD candidates on wind turbines. Moan has been editor of the Journal of Marine Structures for 18 years and serves currently on the editorial board of several other international journals
Professor Moan has delivered more than 40 keynote lectures at major conferences and received several international awards, including the (first) Bruce Wallace award at MIT; Statoil Research Prize; the James W. Rice award of ASME; the Offshore Energy Center Hall of Fame Award, Houston; the Davidson medal of SNAME; SOBENA Award, Brazil; ISOPE Award; Petroleum Safety Authority Award and several best paper awards. He has been elected Fellow of four Academies, including the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, Dr. Honoris Causa of Aalto University and fellow of several professional societies.
Since 2002 he has been a member of the Council of Representatives from Parliament and Science in Norway. He has evaluated research groups and faculties and research proposals in many countries as well as of Advanced Grants for the European Research Council. He serves as advisor to several universities, research institutes and industry companies regarding research in marine technology and regulatory issues.