Staff

Permanent Staff

 

prof. Peter Troch

 


Coastal and river engineering
Director of laboratory

 

prof. Andreas Kortenhaus

 

Offshore and coastal engineering


em. prof. Julien De Rouck


Coastal and river engineering


prof. Maximilian Streicher


Coastal and offshore engineering research
Director of the Coastal and Ocean Basin

Post-doctoral Fellows


dr. Efrain Carpintero Moreno
Post-doctoral researcher


Marine renewable energy, coastal and offshore engineering research

 

dr. Yuri Pepi
Post-doctoral researcher

Operational manager at the Coastal and Ocean Basin

dr. Annelie Baines

Post-doctoral researcher

Numerical modelling in marine renewable energy, coastal and offshore engineering

dr. Ben Shabani

Post-doctoral researcher


dr. Sieglien De Roo
Post-doctoral researcher

Design of coastal engineering structures (on detachment in FHR)


PhD Students

 

ir. Maria Gkougkoudi-Papaioannou

 

Coupled geotechnical-hydrodynamic modelling of a monopile foundation in an offshore wind farm under cyclic behavior

ir. Paulino Meneses Gonzalez

Time-domain wave propagation modelling for assessing the impact of WEC farms on the wave field and the local morphodynamics and sediment transport

ir. Rafail Ioannou

Numerical hydroelastic analysis of moored flexible offshore floating structures

ir. Laurens Cromheeke

 

Integrated Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics platform for modelling
marine renewable energy technologies and moored floating
structures validated using experimental modelling.

ir. Luis Felipe Alfaro Corrales

Influence of infragravity sea waves during storms on the hydro- and morphodynamic processes along hybrid soft-hard coastal defence structures with a shallow foreshore

ir. Afshar Adeli Soleimandarabi

Numerical and physical modelling of storm wave interactions with a hybrid dune-dike nature-based solution (DuneFront project)

ir. Álvaro Esteban Gallardo Rivera

Numerical and physical modelling of a floating offshore wind turbine with an artificial reef structure (INF4INiTY project)

ir. Giorgio Santinelli

Design and installation of bivalve mollusk reefs for biodiversity restoration purposes and nature-inclusive design of adapted marine infrastructure (Reefcovery project)

ir. Yuki Igarashi

Development of numerical simulation tools for a floating offshore wind turbine in extreme wave conditions (BEL-Float project)

 

Scientific Staff

 

 

 

Berkay Erler

Wave flume engineer


Frans van Eeden

 


Rohit Kulkarni

 

 

Jeffrey Verbeurgt

 

 

Voluntary Staff

 


dr. Vicky Stratigaki

 
Physical and numerical modelling in coastal and offshore engineering
Renewable Ocean Energy

 

dr. Fatemeh Hajivalie


Design of coastal engineering structures

 

dr. Nicolas Quartier

 

Numerical modelling in marine renewable energy, coastal and offshore engineering

 

Technical Staff

 

David Derynck


Tom Versluys

William Vanblaere

Elias Hennebert

 

Secretary

 

Lien De Backer

 

Ellen Vynkce