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Personal Statement
I am a Professor in Offshore Renewable Energy Engineering, and I joined the NAOME Department of the University of Strathclyde in August 2018. My area of expertise is applied mechanics, focusing in particular on multidisciplinary, coupled model of dynamics for offshore renewable energy systems. I apply this expertise to develop conceptual and preliminary design methodologies for offshore renewable energy systems.
I am currently the Principal Investigator of one of the five EPSRC Joint UK-China Offshore Renewable Energy flagship projects, the 3 years, £ 0.8m project INNO-MPP (http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/R007497/1). With my research group, we are focusing on the development of multi-purpose offshore platforms for the sustainable development of small/isolated communities, exploiting the synergies among offshore renewable energy and aquaculture industries.
I am also Work Package leader in the 3.5 years, € 10m EU H2020 project “The Blue Growth Farm” (http://www.thebluegrowthfarm.eu/) (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/216067_en.html), focusing on the development and demonstration of an automated, modular and environmentally friendly multi-functional platform for open sea farm installations of the Blue Growth Industry. In this project, I am in charge of the development of a multidisciplinary, coupled model of dynamics of this multi-purpose platform.
Furthermore, I am a Co-Investigator and Work Package leader in a prestigious 3 years, 3 m£ EPSRC project HOME-Offshore (http://homeoffshore.org/), which focuses on merging Artificial Intelligence, Robotic inspection and Advanced Physics Modelling to lower the cost of offshore wind farm maintenance.
I sit on several international committees, including the ITTC Specialist Committee on Hydrodynamic Modelling of Marine Renewable Energy Devices and the OMAE Ocean Renewable Energy technical committee.
In the past, I had been the Principal Investigator on an Innovate UK project, focusing on the conceptual and preliminary design of a novel floating support structure for tidal turbines (http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/P510348/1). I also led the conceptual design of the floating support structure in the £2.8m ETI funded project NOVA (https://www.eti.co.uk/programmes/offshore-wind/nova), and as work package leader I led the development of a coupled model of dynamics for a hybrid wind-wave offshore floating system in the EU FP7 project H2Ocean (http://www.h2ocean-project.eu/).
I am also leading the conceptual and preliminary design of aerodynamically alleviated marine vehicles (AAMV), an area of research initiated with my PhD, and for which I have been awarded the prestigious RINA “Calder Prize”. The work has been published in the Royal Society Proc A journal (doi:10.1098/rspa.2009.0459), and it also led to a patented novel trim control mechanism for high speed marine vehicles (Patent GB2472266).
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
External examiner for the BEng and MEng in Ship Science, University of Southampton
Oct 2017 → Sep 2021
Mamber of Specialist Committee on Hydrodynamic Modelling of Marine Renewable Energy Devices, International Towing Tank Conference
23 Sep 2017 → 20 Sep 2020
Member of the Maritime Innovation Committee, The Royal Institution of Naval Architecture
2017 → 2018
External examiner for the MSc in Offshore Floating Systems and Msc in Ship & Offshore Structures, University of Strathclyde
Oct 2015 → Jul 2018
Member of the Ocean Engineering Committee, International Towing Tank Conference
5 Sep 2014 → 22 Sep 2017
Keywords
- Offshore Renewables
- Offshore Engineering
- Offshore Floating Wind Turbines
- Multi-purpose platform
- Multi-use platform
- System Modelling and Simulation
- Offshore Wind
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Ocean Renewable Energy Fuel (OCEAN-REFuel)
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Coupled aero-hydro-elastic analysis of next-generation very large multi-purpose offshore floating platforms for blue economy
30/03/21 → 29/03/23
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Multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization of floating offshore wind turbine substructures: a review
Ojo, A., Collu, M. & Coraddu, A., 15 Dec 2022, In: Ocean Engineering. 266, Part 1, 18 p., 112727.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Experimental and numerical analysis of a hybrid WEC-breakwater system combining an oscillating water column and an oscillating buoy
Cheng, Y., Fu, L., Dai, S., Collu, M., Cui, L., Yuan, Z. & Incecik, A., 30 Nov 2022, In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews . 169, 23 p., 112909.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile4 Citations (Scopus)14 Downloads (Pure)
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Dataset for European Installed Offshore Wind Turbines (until year end 2017)
Cevasco, D. (Creator) & Collu, M. (Creator), Cranfield University, 26 Oct 2018
DOI: 10.17862/cranfield.rd.6133673, https://cranfield.figshare.com/
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University Of Strathclyde (Organisational unit)
William Quirke (Member), Sarah Proctor (Member), Scott Strachan (Chair), Doungahire Abdoul Karim Zanhouo (Member), Ali Bakhit (Member), Aruna Ivaturi (Member), Astrid Werkmeister (Member), Avril Thomson (Member), Barry Moore (Member), Bingzhang Chen (Member), Claire Timmins (Member), Clare Mouat (Member), Damien Williams (Member), David Comerford (Member), Debbie McLeod (Member), Deirdre Harrington (Member), Donna Ramsay (Member), Eirini Gallou (Member), Elizabeth Margaret Robertson (Member), Eva Kourova (Member), Ewan McQueen (Member), Hyoje Kim (Member), Ines Ruiz (Member), Kathryn McClure (Member), Kimia Witte (Member), Louise Logan (Member), Mark Haw (Member), Maurizio Collu (Member), Michelle Fisher (Member), Murielle Jousseau (Member), Robert Collins (Member), Scott McGrane (Member), Seb Sprick (Member), Sharon Ingram (Member), Suzanne Faulkner (Member), Tracy Morse (Member) & Wendy Pring (Member)
10 Oct 2022 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership of network
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SINTEF Ocean (External organisation)
Maurizio Collu (Advisor)
1 Nov 2021Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee