Axelle Viré

Professor Floating Offshore Wind & Head of Department, Delft University of Technology

Biography

Tuesday 26 November, 9:30 – 10:30 | Floating Wind

Axelle Viré is a Full Professor of Floating Wind Energy and the Scientific Director of the Floating Renewables Lab at TU Delft. Since July 2024, she is also head of department “Flow Physics and Technology” at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering (TU Delft). She graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), where she also completed her PhD. She then worked as a Research Fellow at Imperial College London (UK) before joining TU Delft. She currently leads a team working on the numerical modelling, experimental testing, and system design for floating offshore wind turbines and farms. She also coordinates the 13m€ NWO project “HybridLabs” to accelerate Dutch innovations in offshore renewables and is the recipient of a prestigious NWO VIDI grant aimed at better understanding the aerodynamics of floating wind turbines. Next to her research activities, she is committed to increasing human capital in offshore wind energy and received an Education Fellowship at TU Delft in 2023. Outside TU Delft, she is a member of the scientific advisory board of the NoordzeeOverleg, a national body in charge of implementing the North Sea Agreement.

 

“Floating wind turbines offer more options to solve the puzzle of achieving a fast energy transition in the coming years.”

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