Faculty
Wind energy faculty at Gotland University come from many different backgrounds. A multi-disciplinary core of resident faculty members with educational, research, and industry experience backgrounds relevant to energy education contribute to the Wind Power Project Management curriculum. The institution can also call on a range of guest lecturers and industry practitioners for specialist topics in wind power and supporting topics.
• Director of Energy Technology, Gotland University
• Associate Professor,
Energy Technology
• PhD, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Dr. Ivanell is Director of energy technology at Gotland University. Dr. Ivanell has been working with energy technology since 2002 and is heavily involved in research in wind wake aerodynamics. Dr. Ivanell is also partly an Associate Professor at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. See more information about Dr. Ivanell´s research, courses, publications etc. at www.ivanell.se
• Associate
Professor of Energy Technology, Gotland University
• Program Director, MSC in Wind Power
Project Management
• PhD, University of Southampton, UK
Dr Bahri Uzunoglu brings 12 years of international industry
and academic experience in
computational
engineering and science, computational fluid dynamics and computational
statistics applied to renewable energy problems to the department.
Dr. Uzunoglu's recent industry experience includes work for utilities such as
Florida Power and Light (FPL), and consultancy R&D for the renewables
industry in the United States and Europe. His academic experience includes
computational and atmospheric science institutes such as the School of
Computational Science at Florida State University, Cooperative Institute for
Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University, and the German
Aerospace Centre (DLR).Dr. Uzunoglu's research concentration is in efficient
exploitation of renewable energy resources such as wind, weather forecast
systems for grid integration, control systems and optimization problems. He is
engaged in applied statistical methods to collect, organize, interpret, and
summarize numerical data to provide usable information relating to renewable
energy statistics, economic statistics and energy risk. See more information
about Dr. Uzunoglu´s research, courses, publications etc. at his
personal
website.
•Guest professor,
Gotland University
•Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Professor, Mechanical Engineering, PhD, Technical University of Denmark
Dr. Sørensen is visiting professor of Wind Energy at Gotland
University, sharing time between Visby and his home institution, the Technical
University of Denmark (DTU). At Gotland University, Dr. Sørensen will be engaged
as a lecturer in Wind Power Project Management and responsible for supervision
of PhD students. In addition, he serves as Research Director of the Renewable
Energy Institute, a competency center of Faculty of Wind Energy.
Professor Sørensen has extensive experience in fluid mechanics applied to wind
energy. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific papers in the
area. His research group at DTU is an internationally recognized leader in
efficient exploitation of renewable energy resources such as wind and waves,
efficient energy transformation in combustion engines, energy transport, and
energy consumption including refrigeration and indoor environment optimization.
Dr. Sørensen is also an active member of the external Advisory Board for the
Gotland University Faculty of Wind Energy.
• Faculty of Wind Energy, Gotland
University
• Lecturer, Energy Technology and Wind Power
• Phd student in Wake aerodynamics
• MSc, Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden,
The Institute of Technology
Presently I hold the position of lecturer in wind energy at
Gotland University. My topics cover most of the courses given at the
undergraduate level in Wind Power, such as Wind Power Technology, Wind Power
Energy and Wind Power Project development.
I’m also a PhD student in the project Farm- Farm interaction, using numerical methods to study the wake interaction between large wind farms.
In private industry employment previous to Gotland University, I worked as a wind project developer and consultant.
• Department of Energy Technology,
Gotland University
• Lecturer, International Project Management, Supply-Chain Logistics
• MSc, University of North Texas, USA
• International Management, Thunderbird School of Global Management, USA
Practitioner-adjunct lecturer at universities in the United States, Mexico, Latvia, Finland, and Sweden, primarily in MBA-EMBA programs on subjects of international marketing, supply-chain management, trade, international project management and project development prior to joining the Department of Energy Technology. Direct industry employment experience includes executive level engineering-construction and operations management posts in the United States, South America, Southeast Asia and Europe. Research interests include globalization and its effects on operational management and marketing in multicultural geopolitical environments, and international project development in evolving national economies.
• Faculty of Wind Energy, Gotland
University
• Lecturer in Wind Energy, Project Manager
• National Network for Wind Utilization
• MSc, Chemical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Having worked in both corporate firms as well as NGOs I’m now engaged in the development and administration of wind energy education at Gotland University, both the on-campus master’s program and distance education. My background is in Chemical engineering and renewable energy technology and my research interest lies within wind resources, incentives for renewable energy production and sustainable energy systems. Currently, I’m also initiating and carrying out education and competency activities within the National Network for Wind Utilization.
• Faculty of Wind Energy, Gotland
University
• Lecturer in Wind Energy
• MSc, Biology, Gotland University, Sweden
With my master’s degree in Biology from Gotland University, I have been a lecturer in various distance learning courses concerning Energy Technology since 2003, primarily in courses about wind power but also other renewable energy sources. The position involves develpoing new courses in distance education curriculum material, and I also participate in the on-campus master´s program. My area of research up to now concerns wind power and environmental impact as a case study in 2005 at Näsudden (80 wind turbines), Klintehamn and När on Gotland".
• Faculty of Wind Energy, Gotland University
• Lecturer, Wind energy - Spatial Planning
• MSc, in Human Geography, Lund University, Sweden
As a human geographer and environmental scientist my interest focuses on social issues connected to wind power. My latest research project dealt with planning and communication processes, and attitudes in wind power project management. Presently I am conducting research for a VINDVAL project in the field of landscape analysis for wind power, with focus on non-professional perspectives on landscape.
Breton,
Simon-Philippe
• Faculty of Wind Energy, Gotland University
• Lecturer and researcher
• PhD, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
I started recently as a teacher at HGO where I will be responsible for theWind
Power Basics course and Malmö Offshore courses. I will also be involved in other
courses, as well as performing research regarding wind turbine wakes. I have a
formation in Physics from Université de Sherbrookein Canada. I did a PhD at the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway, working
with wind turbine aerodynamics. I then continued my work on wind turbine
aerodynamics, focusing on the wake behind the turbine rotor, as a postdoctorate
student at École de technologie supérieure in Montréal, Canada, before coming to
Gotland.
• Faculty of Wind Energy, Gotland
University
• Lecturer, Energy Technology and Wind Power
• MSc, Wind Power Project Management, Gotland University
• MSc, Computer Science, Stockholm University
• BSc, Energy engineering, Umeå University
I currently hold a position as a University lecturer in wind energy at Gotland University. I mainly work with vocational training but I am also engaged in various projects in cooperation with CVI, Centrum för Vindbruk. My courses cover topics such as Wind power technology, Wind Power Energy and Wind power Project development. Prior to my employment at Gotland University I worked as a process and requirement specialist consultant.
PhD STUDENTS
• Faculty of Wind Energy, Gotland
University
• PhD student, Researcher, Lecturer
• MSc, Mechanical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
I am currently enrolled in PhD program working with wind farm optimization and
control. I joined the program in March 2010 and have since then mainly focused
on near wake aerodynamics and numerical actuator disc simulations of Lillgrund
wind farm outside Malmö, Sweden. I completed my MSc at Chalmers University of
Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, with my last semester at Gotland writing my
thesis, in which I dealt with numerical simulations, under supervision of Dr.
Stefan Ivanell. Apart from my PhD studies, I also teach in some courses in the
Master program in Wind Power Project Management and in some distance courses
concerning technological aspects of wind power.
• Faculty of Wind Energy, Gotland
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• PhD student, Researcher, Lecturer
• MSc, Wind Power Project Management, Gotland University, Sweden
I am working in IceWind and Nordic Consortium research projects as a PhD
student. I involve research in wind wake interaction in the wind farms and
moderate icing effect on the energy output of the farm. I am be teaching in some
courses in Master program in Wind Power Project Management at Gotland
University. I have a Master of Science degree from Gotland University.
AFFILIATED FACULTY
• F
aculty of Archaeology, Gotland
University
• Senior Lecturer in Archaeology
• Phd, Uppsala University, Sweden
I teach prehistoric archaeology/Cultural Heritage Management at Gotland University. I have extensive experience from Swedish Rescue Archaeology projects. My research concerns Tool Use and Human Evolution, The Pioneer Settlements of Gotland and Early Holocene hunter-gatherers and pastoralists in the Western Desert, Egypt.
• Faculty of Science and Technology,
Uppsala University
• Researcher, Department of Earth Sciences
• Ph.D. in Meteorology, Uppsala University, Sweden
His main research focus is wind energy related research concerning mean wind and turbulence properties in the atmospheric boundary layer, that is the lower part of the atmosphere which is directly affected by the surface of the earth. Following his development of techniques to model the wind resources using advanced numerical atmospheric models, he has completed a wind resource mapping over the whole of Sweden. Presently he is coordinating two Vindforsk projects: Windpower in forests and Windpower in cold climates.
• Faculty of Business Administration,
Gotland University
• Associate Professor
• Lecturer, Wind Energy Project Finance
• Ph.D., London Business School, United Kingdom
Professor de Ridder teaches undergraduate and master’s courses in finance, investments and international finance in the department of business administration. He completed his dissertation on initial public offerings (IPO) at London Business School, and brings personal experience from the steel industry as well as from the asset management industry to the university. His research focuses on investor behaviour, investments and ownership structures. Dr. De Ridder has published numerous papers in international finance journals.
• Director Swedish international
Centre of Education for Sustainable Development
(SWEDESD),
Gotland University
• Lecturer, Sustainable Development
• PhD, International Development Education, Stanford University, USA
Dr. Lenglet has extensive experience in educational reform and capacity
development in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, in
management training, policy analysis, project management and evaluation, in
association with different universities, the World Bank, UNESCO, and the
International Labour Organization.
Dr. Lenglet is working with educational organizations and community
organizations, especially in Asia and Africa but also elsewhere, to identify,
test and disseminate appropriate, innovative and effective content and methods
of learning for sustainable change: how through education and learning
individuals and communities -- locally and globally, for current and future
generations -- can make choices that have a positive influence on their
livelihood and sense of well-being, while respecting planetary boundaries.
• Faculty of Human Geography,
Gotland University
• Associate Professor, Human Geography
• Lecturer, Associate Professor of Human Geography
• PhD, Lund University, Sweden
My research interests focus primarily on historical geographies of landscape, justice, modernity and nature in Sweden. I am also involved in a critical assessment of landscape analysis and the planning of wind power. My work has appeared in leading geographical journals and I have authored and edited several books. I am involved in editorial work for Landscape Research, the multidisciplinary journal of the Landscape Research Group, as well as peer-reviewing for the Swedish Research Council.
• Scientific Director, Swedish
international Centre of Education for Sustainable Development
(SWEDESD),
Gotland University
• Professor, Sustainable Development with focus on Natural Resources
•PhD, Stockholm University, Sweden
Patrik has a research background from the Beijer Institute of Ecological
Economics and Stockholm University. He wrote his PhD thesis analysing the
sustainability of seafood production from tropical coastal environments. The
majority of Patrik’s research and work has been studied in the context of the
social and economic vulnerability of stakeholders dependent on the life-support
functions of viable natural environments. He has worked in depth on a variety of
sustainability issues in developing countries, including work on the post-
tsunami response, aquaculture development, sanitation and water quality, etc.
Professor Rönnbäck has extensive teaching experience on aspects of natural
resource management, sustainable development and ecological economics. The
application of strong sustainability is his leading principle of procedure,
i.e., the three capitals (economic, social and natural) are complementary. Many
ecosystem services constitute critical natural capital that cannot be traded
off, highlighting the ecological imperative of finite limits to human activities
and economic development.
• Faculty of Law, Gotland University
• Senior Lecturer
• European Contract Law
• JD in European Law, Uppsala University, Sweden
Presently I hold a position as researcher and lecturer at Gotland University. I presented my dissertation, Free Movement of Services – Interpretation of Article 49 EGF, (Iustus Förlag 2007) at Uppsala University in 2007. My research monitors and evaluates the development of the mobility of the services on the internal market. The changing service concept and the role that might be given services of general interest in the development towards a social Europe, is the focal point of my current research.
• Faculty of language and
communication, Gotland University
• Senior Lecturer, the English language and intercultural communication
• Ph D, Uppsala University, Sweden
Stellan is a lecturer in courses of academic writing and oral proficiency in
the English language. He also teaches courses in intercultural communication
both at the Master and Bachelor level. In addition to these fields, Stellan is
now engaged in teacher education at Gotland University and he has extensive
teaching experience from a wide range of contexts both in Sweden and abroad. For
quite a few years he worked with the national tests of English used in Swedish
upper secondary schools.
His present research covers the use of the English language in the Baltic region
as regards communication and conversational strategies by non-native speakers of
English.