EPSRC Industrial CDT in Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE)

IDCORE Research Engineers

Our research engineers are listed below by research area. For completed projects that do not have any commercial sensitivities, links to the final theses are included.

Industrial Partners

IDCORE Research Engineers
IDCORE Member Name	Programme Partner	Research Area	Industrial Partner	Cohort
Michalis Constantas	University of Edinburgh	Computational Modelling (CM), Hydrodynamics (H), Techno-Economic Modelling (TE)	Proteus Marine Renewables	2025
Mitch Shields	University of Exeter	Operations and Maintenance (OM), Techno-Economic Modelling (TE)	SSE	2023
Nian Liu	University of Edinburgh	Computational Modelling (CM)	Mocean Energy	2021
Nikitas Fotiou	University of Exeter	Computational Modelling (CM), Hydrodynamics (H)	EDF	2024
Ota Dvorak	University of Strathclyde	Naval Architecture (NA)	GDG	2022
Peach Phurappa	University of Edinburgh	Control Engineering (CE), Electrical Engineering (EE)	SSE HVDC Centre	2022
Rafe Watson	University of Edinburgh	Computational Modelling (CM), Risk & Reliability (RR), Techno-Economic Modelling (TE)	Trios Renewables	2023
Sabin Stefanov	Swansea University	Computational Modelling (CM), Resource Assessment (RA), Techno-Economic Modelling (TE)	Wood Group	2024
Sam Cressall	University of Exeter	Mechanical Engineering (ME)	Partrac	2022
Simon McLaughlin	University of Edinburgh	Environment (E)	Seiche	2020
Tara Alkubaisi	University of Edinburgh	Techno-Economic Modelling (TE)	Scottish Power	2021
Thomas Page	University of Exeter	Computational Modelling (CM), Environment (E), Marine Biology (MB), Techno-Economic Modelling (TE)	Proteus Marine Renewables	2024
Tom Godfrey-Brown	University of Strathclyde	Computational Modelling (CM)	EDF	2022
Tom Summers	University of Strathclyde	Mechanical Engineering (ME)	HydroWing	2021
Tzu-Hsun Lin	University of Exeter	Computational Modelling (CM), Hydrodynamics (H)	Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult	2023
Wan Yeung	University of Edinburgh	Electrical Engineering (EE)	Aqualution Systems	2023
Wilf DiBiase	Swansea University	Computational Modelling (CM), Hydrodynamics (H), Mechanical Engineering (ME)	Proteus Marine Renewables	2024
Wuhui He	University of Edinburgh	Control Engineering (CE), Electrical Engineering (EE)	SSE HVDC Centre	2024
Yusril Fatahilmi	Swansea University	Computational Modelling (CM), Control Engineering (CE), Electrical Engineering (EE)	CGEN Engineering	2024

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The EPSRC Industrial Centre for Doctoral Training for Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE) is a partnership of the Universities of Edinburgh, Exeter, Strathclyde and Swansea, and Scottish Association for Marine Science. IDCORE has been previously funded, in 2018 by EPSRC and NERC (EP/S023933/1) and in 2012 by EPSRC and ETI (EP/J500847/1).