<p>EDUCATION</p> <p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">PhD. in Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA, 2012.</span><br /><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Post graduate Diploma Course von Karman Institute, Sint Genesius Rode, 2008.</span><br /><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">M. Sc. Mechanical Engineer, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2008.</span><br /><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">B. Sc. Mechanical Engineer, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2004.</span></p> <p><br />CAREER</p> <p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">2013 – present: Senior Research Engineer, von Karman Institute – Belgium</span><br /><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">2012 – 2013: Post-Doctoral Fellow, von Karman Institute – Belgium</span><br /><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">2005 – 2007: Research/Teaching Assistant, Boğaziçi University Mechanical Engineering Department, Istanbul, Turkey</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em;">AWARDS and MEMBERSHIPS<br /></span><br /><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Member of ASME – Fluids Engineering Division - Fluid mechanics techincal committee (since 2014)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em;">SERVICE TO SOCIETY<br /></span><br /><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Reviewer to journals: “Measurement Science and Technology”, “Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics”, “Journal of Mechanical Engineering Research”, “American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences”, “Journal of Mechanics Engineering and Automation”</span><br /><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Session co-chair in “ASME International Gas Turbine Institute Turbo-Expo Conference 2014</span><br /><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Reviewer to conferences: “AIAA SciTech Conference, 2104”, “AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference &amp; Exhibit (since 2012)”, “ASME International Gas Turbine Institute Turbo-Expo Conference (since 2013)”, “European Turbomachinery Conference, 2013</span></p>

<p>Frédéric Dias is an applied mathematician with a PhD in Civil Engineering who has made numerous pioneering contributions during his career that have significantly advanced the field of fluid dynamics. He has been the leader of an innovative, world-class research group in fluid mechanics for the past 10 years and the quality and impact of his research is recognized worldwide.  In 2010 he has received a large research award from SFI (Science Foundation Ireland) to build the first group in ocean wave energy at University College Dublin together with Aquamarine Power. In 2011 he was awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant on the formation of extreme waves, together with Prof. John Dudley, a physicist who has made numerous pioneering contributions in nonlinear optical physics.</p>

<p>Graduated from ENSTA ( Ecole Nationale de Techniques Avancées) in 1975 as Ocean Engineer.</p> <p>He joined Ifremer ( Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, formerly CNEXO) in 1977,where he was first in charge of simulation tasks  within the scope of a polymetallic nodule mining development program</p> <p>From 1980 to 1985, he was involved in research and feasibility studies in the field of marine renewable energy; in particular wave and ocean thermal energy.</p> <p>Since 1985, he has performed research and computational activities related to the behaviour of flexible slender structures( towing and deployment cables, mooring lines, risers, umbilicals). He has conducted a number of at-sea experiments to collect data on towed or cable-deployed systems in order to validate numerical models. He also conducted a number of experiments in Ifremer ocean engineering tank on the dynamic behaviour of mooring lines and steel catenary risers.</p> <p>He is currently coordinating Ifremer research, testing and expertise activities related to the behaviour of structures in marine environment and he is head of Ifremer hydrodynamic and metocean laboratory, member of Marinet (http://www.fp7-marinet.eu/)</p> <p>He is a member of the CLAR_OM (French club for research activities on offshore structures) board.</p> <div> </div>

<p class="MsoNormal">Experienced Research And Development Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the oil &amp; energy industry. Skilled in Research and Development (R&amp;D), Process Optimization, Petroleum, Matlab, and Renewable Energy Systems. Strong research professional with a Professional Doctorate in Engineering focused in Product &amp;Equipment Design from Technische Universiteit Delft.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Career:</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>EUROGIA2020 Cluster- Treasurer</strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal">October 2018- Present</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>EUROGIA2020 Cluster- Board &amp; Technical Committee Member</strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal">March 2017- Present</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>ENERJISA</strong></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal"><strong>R&amp;D Manager</strong></li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal">Apr 2016 – Present</p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal"><strong>Technology Development Process Leader</strong></li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal">Apr 2015 – Apr 2016</p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal"><strong>R&amp;D Project Manager</strong></li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal">Jul 2013 – Apr 2015</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong> </strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>TUPRAS</strong></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal"><strong>R&amp;D Process Development Supervisor</strong></li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal">Aug 2011 – Jul 2013</p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal"><strong>R&amp;D Engineer</strong></li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal">Mar 2010 – Aug 2011</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>EDUCATION<a name="_GoBack"></a></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Technische Universiteit Delft</strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Professional Doctorate in Engineering</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Product &amp;Equipment Design</p> <p class="MsoNormal">2007 – 2009</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University</strong></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">MSc Chemical Engineering<strong> </strong>2005 – 2007</span></p>

<p>Experienced Entrepreneurship, idea, product and business development. Skilled in Research and Development, Project Management, Whole Sale ENergy Market, Renewable Energy and Innovation Management.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Career.</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">EPİAŞ</span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> (Energy Market Operator)</span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">         </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">R&amp;D Center Unit Manager</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2018<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">– Present</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">         </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">R&amp;D and Funding Specialist</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2016-2018</span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">EMATO Engineering</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">         </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Co-Founder and R&amp;D Strategy Manager</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2014 – Mar 2016</span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Open Innovation Association</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">         </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Co-Founder and Volunteer</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2016 – Present</span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">VICORP</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">         </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Founder and R&amp;D Project Manager</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2013 – 2016</span></p>

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<p>Born in 1949, Pierre Besse is a civil engineer, a graduate of the Ecole Centrale Paris. His career began in 1974, when he joined the “Groupe Menard” as Geotechnical Engineer and Site Manager. He joined Bureau Veritas in 1976, in the construction business in the South of France. From 1983 to 1995, he occupied the functions of engineer in the Ocean Technology Department at Head Office, and became Deputy Manager , in charge of certification of offshore development projects, and of the technological development. From 1996 to 2001, he was Manager of the R&amp;D Department of Bureau Veritas, and became in 2001 Research and Development Director and Head of the Research Department of the Marine Division. During this time, he has been member of the IACS and of the IMO/MSC working groups on Formal Safety Assessment  (FSA). He has been member of the ISSC Technical Committee on “Design principle and criteria”.</p> <p>From the early nineties, he has been member of the “Research &amp; Development Strategic Planning Group” ( RDSPG) of the Maritime Industries Forum (MIF). He has also chaired the Support Group of the European Technology Platform WATERBORNE.<br /><br /></p>

<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Areas of Interest and Expertise:</strong></span></p> <p>Power System Distribution (SCADA, Compensation, fault analysis, voltage drop, grounding, protection)  </p> <p>Power Transmission Systems (Balanced and unbalanced fault analysis, power flow, short circuit analysis, FACTS, reliability and optimization)</p> <p>Power System Analysis  Information Technologies (Operating systems, programming languages, database design and management, Client and Server Side programming)</p> <p>Computational Science (Parallel computing, numerical method, iterative methods, shared and distributed memory based systems, sparse matrix computation techniques, applied linear algebra)</p> <p>Management Information Systems (Decision Support Systems, Information system analysis and design, Data Mining and Big Data Analytics, etc.)</p>

<p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;">10 years successful experience providing fiscal, strategic, operational leadership in energy value chain; project development - financing - construction - energy trading - end user energy sales. Dynamic and result oriented commercial engineer with a strong track record of performance in high-paced organizations. Superior interpersonal skills, capable of resolving multiple and complex issues.</span></p>