Renewable Energy and Energy Transition

Projects

• JUST-Systems, 2025-2030. A UKRI-funded interdisciplinary research programme applying systems thinking to place people and communities at the heart of the transition to Net Zero. Project team at the School of Engineering. Project team: Professor Alireza Maheri and Dr Srinivas Sriramula, collaborating with Just Transition Lab and partners from Stirling, Strathclyde, Edinburgh, Reading and Warwick Universities and multiple community, government and civil society stakeholders. Read more here
  
  
• Entanglement complexities in floating offshore wind arrays, 2026-2027, ORE Catapult, Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak, A. Terrero Gonzalez, Professor Ana Ivanovic and  Professor Richard D. Neilson
  
  
• Aberdeen Geothermal Feasibility Pilot (Phase 1), NERC, 2025-2026, Project team: Dr David Cornwell, Prof  Clare Bond, Dr Joe Armstrong, Dr Vahid Vaziri  and Prof John Underhill (https://www.abdn.ac.uk/geothermal)
  
  
• Floating Offshore Wind Major Component Exchange, 2024-2026, ORE Catapult, Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak, A. Terrero Gonzalez, M. Olatunde and  Professor Richard D. Neilson
  
  
• Offshore wind: walk-to-work standardisation, Blackfish Engineering,  2025-2026, Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak
  
  
• Floating Offshore Wind Major Component Exchange, 2024-2026, ORE Catapult, Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak, A. Terrero Gonzalez, M. Olatunde and  Professor Richard D. Neilson
  
  
• Offshore wind: walk-to-work standardisation, Blackfish Engineering,  2025-2026, Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak
  
  
• Entanglement complexities in floating offshore wind arrays, 2026-2027, ORE Catapult, Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak, A. Terrero Gonzalez, Professor Ana Ivanovic and  Professor Richard D. Neilson
  
  
• Simulations of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines, PhD studentship funded by Petroleum Technology Development Fund, 2023-2026, Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak and Dr Vahid Vaziri.
  
  
• Data for Net Zero (D4NZ), 2022-2025. Project team: Professor Richard D. Neilson, Professor Alireza Maheri, Dr Marcin Kapitaniak, Dr Alfonso Martinez-felipe, Dr Vahid Vaziri, and Dr Srinivas Sriramula (School of Engineering) with collaboration with Business School, Schools of Law, Biological Sciences, Geoscience, and Natural and Computing Sciences. Read more here and here

• Kionnali Living System-Net zero Energy System, 2022- 2023. Project team: Professor Alireza Maheri

• Floating Wind: Optimisation, De-risking & Development, Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, 2022 - 2026. Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak, Professor Richard D. Neilson, Dr Peter Dunning, Dr Antonios Karadimos, Dr Vahid Vaziri, and Professor Ana Ivanovic. Read more here

• Application of Business and Engineering Research Methodologies to Establish ANM Renewable & Agri-Tech Advisory Service, Innovate UK and ANM Group Limited Knowledge Transfer Partnership, 2022-2023. Project team: Mr Adam Smith (Business School), Professor Alireza Maheri and Dr Waheed Afzal. Read more here

• Wind Turbine Smart Blades Made of Functional Materials, Carnegie Trust PhD Scholarship, 2019-2023. Project team: Mr Adam Kovacs (PhD Candidate), Professor Alireza Maheri and Dr Olex Menshykov. 
• Design optimisation of green hydrogen systems, PhD studentship funded by the Malaysian Gov, 2019-2023. Project team: Ms Nadia Iskandar, Professor Alireza Maheri and Dr Alireza Bagheri Sabbagh
  
  
• Cost Effective Methods of Installing Offshore Wind Infrastructure, EPSRC Supergen ORE Hub,  2021-2022, Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak and Professor Richard D. Neilson
  
  
• C-DART System Simulation, 2022, Skua Marine Ltd., Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak and Professor Richard D. Neilson
  
  
• Optimization Of Towing Configuration For Floating Wind Farm Anchors, Energy Technology Partnership (ETP), 2022, Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak, R. Martinez and S. Arnau
  
  
• T-Omega Wind: Floating Wind Towing & Maintenance Feasibility Studies, T-Omega Wind Inc., 2022, Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak, R. Martinez and Professor Richard D. Neilson
  
  
• Virtual Prototyping of a Novel Vertical Wind Turbine Concept, Interface & Windstorm Renewables,  2023, Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak and A. Terrero Gonzalez
  
  
• Simulations of Offshore Vessel Charging System, Interface & Oasis Marine, 2023, Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak and A. Terrero Gonzalez
  
  
• Floating Wind Mooring Lines Load Reduction Device: Modelling and Optimisation, Dublin Offshore, 2023-2024, Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak, A. Terrero Gonzalez and Professor Richard D. Neilson
  
  
• Maximising potential of shallow ports for floating offshore wind deployment, EPSRC Supergen ORE Hub, 2024-2025, Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak and A. Terrero Gonzalez
  
  
• Virtual Prototyping Of A New Spar-type Floating Offshore Wind Turbine, Interface & Ultra Marine Ltd, 2024-2025, Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak and A. Terrero Gonzalez
  
  
• Virtual prototyping of safe anchorage areas for floating wind applications, Interface & Floating Energy Systems Ltd, 2025, Project team: Dr Marcin Kapitaniak and M. Olatunde