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Thomas Sauder

Senior Research Scientist

Senior researcher and project manager. Interests: hydrodynamics and dynamical behaviour of ocean structures, nonlinear hydrodynamic loads, mooring systems (incl. shared mooring). Numerical and experimental methods. Driving the development of cyber-physical testing at SINTEF Ocean. Currently leading the OptiFLEX project (2025-2028) about numerical and experimental methods for large and flexible floating wind turbines, and co-developer of the Muscade.jl package.

Education

MSc - Ecole Centrale de Lyon/Mechanical engineering
MSc - NTNU/Marine structures
PhD - NTNU/Marine Cybernetics

Competence and research areas

offshore structures; floating wind turbines; hydrodynamics; cybernetics; mooring; shared mooring; wind-assisted propulsion; wave loads; cyber-physical testing; load estimation; model calibration

Linkedin

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsauder/

ResearchGate

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas-Sauder

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7445-7239

Publications

Contact info

Visiting address:
Professor J.H.L Vogts veg 1A
7052 Trondheim