Annual report 2022

Was the first one to defend her thesis this year. It was about “Safety in Exposed Aquaculture Operations”. Ingunn Marie Holmen is now a Research Manager in SINTEF Ocean, in the Department of fishery and new biomarine industries and Centre Director in SFI Harvest. Her areas of expertise are safety and risk management in fisheries and aquaculture, management of multidisciplinary research and development projects, user-driven concept of development as the basis for innovation as well as occupational accident causality analysis. 

Was the second to defend his thesis this year, with “Ship Performance Monitoring using in-service Measurements and Big Data Analysis Methods”. He has continued as a postdoctoral researcher here at the Department of Marine Technology, and still works on ship performance monitoring with the following research topics: Physics, and machine-learning-based methods to predict change in hydrodynamic performance of sea-going ships through propeller, and hull cleaning events and outlier detection using PCA and Autoendcoders.

He also works on developing a standardized data processing and cleaning framework for the data recorded onboard a ship, including ships navigation data, and creating a set of Python libraries for data processing and interactive plotting which can be used for in-depth data analysis.

Defended his PhD thesis about “Non-linear time domain analysis of deepwater riser vortex-induced vibrations”. He then continued as a postdoctoral researcher at KRISO (Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering) in Busan for a few months. After that he started as a Senior Researcher in Hyundai Heavy Industries with floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT) mooring and dynamic cable as his research areas, by the end of the year in 2022.

Jarle Vinje Kramer’s PhD thesis was about “Hydrodynamic Aspects of Sail-Assisted Merchant Vessels”, as new types of sails are emerging due to the goal of zero greenhouse gas emissions in the shipping industry in the near future. He continued as a postdoctoral researcher here at the department, and in 2024 as a Research Scientist at SINTEF Ocean together with a part time post doc position here at IMT. His special interests are in simulations, software, and design solutions. Most of his career so far has been spent on environmentally friendly sea transportation methods, such as wind-powered merchant vessels, energy efficient hydrofoil crafts and small electric ferries.  

Defended her thesis about “Information and Decision-making for Major Accident Prevention – A concept of information-based strategies for accident prevention” and continued as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tromsø – the Arctic University of Norway. Here she works on a project who looks at multidisciplinary approach for spray icing modelling and decision support in the Norwegian maritime sector.

She is into route risk modeling of vessel icing, reinforcement learning for route optimization, multiobjective decision making for route planning and optimization, fishing vessel route planning and decision making of fishermen considering icing risk.

Defended his thesis in marine cybernetics on the topic “Autonomous Exploration for Marine Minerals.” Alongside the PhD he was one of four PhD students from our department who decided to start Skarv Technologies. The startup specializes in developing custom robotic solutions with smart underwater machines and sensors, video and still-imaging cameras, and lights tailored for underwater use. He is now Chief Information Officer in Skarv.

Defended his thesis “Design of hybrid fuel cell & battery systems for maritime vessels”, and continues to research zero-emission power systems for a greener future in the maritime industry as a System Engineer in TECO at Lysaker.