"blueOASIS: Making the World Green and Oceans Blue using Rocket Science" - February 27, 2025, Thursday, 2:30 pm, Pavilhão de Mecânica II, amphitheatre AM

Date: February 27, 2025, Thursday
Time: 2:30 pm
Place: Pavilhão de Mecânica II, amphitheatre AM

• Speaker: Guilherme Vaz (CEO Chief Executive Officer of blueOASIS; CTO Chief Technology Officer of HydroTWIN; Board Member of Fórum Oceano; Invited Professor: Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal & University of Southampton, UK & University Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

• Title: "blueOASIS: Making the World Green and Oceans Blue using Rocket Science"

• Abstract:

In the 20th century, the fields of Aerospace Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Environmental Science were never seen to be synergetic or closely related. An aerospace engineer was supposed to analyze and design aircrafts or build rockets; a naval architect and ocean engineer should design ships or oil platforms; and an environmental engineer had to be concerned with the a posteriori environmental impact of a product, but for sure never for rockets or oil platforms. The World has changed since 1999, and nowadays we are fighting for the survival of our Blue Planet. The widespread development of Renewable Energy finally came to oblige those engineers (and others) to cooperate and work in symbiosis for the design, development, building, maintenance and decommissioning of all structures in a Sustainable manner. Offshore Wind Energy is such a paradigmatic example: aerodynamics meets hydrodynamics meets mechanical engineering meets remote sensing meets oceanographic and weather forecast models.
In this presentation, the startup blueOASIS (www.blueoasis.pt), company with its genesis in this new environmentally aware and driven world, will be presented: what is done, where is all the work done and who does it all. Disruptive industry 4.0 projects where High Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI), modern numerical modelling, and in-situ smart sensors, are used for Offshore Renewables among others, will be presented. These projects will be detailed and particular engineering and scientific results shown. All to keep Making our World Green and our Oceans Blue and Quiet again.

• Short Biographic Note:

Guilherme Vaz concluded his MSc in Aerospace Engineering in IST, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, in 1999. He pursued his PhD studies on marine propellers, cavitation and underwater acoustics at MARIN (www.marin.nl) in the Netherlands, leading to his Doctoral degree at IST, Portugal, in 2005. Afterwards, he worked in the CFD Group of the R&D department of MARIN, with specialization on CFD developments, High-Performance Computing (HPC), turbulence, acoustics, offshore and renewable energy systems. He was the founder of the open-source community based CFD code ReFRESCO (www.refresco.org) and, from September 2016 to August 2019, he was the coordinator of all CFD developments at MARIN. In August 2019, he moved back to Portugal and became the CSO of Renewable Energy Institute WavEC, and team leader of the HPC and Data Science team. In 2021 he founded blueOASIS (Blue Ocean Sustainable Solutions, www.blueoasis.pt), a startup dealing with Industry 4.0 tools applied to Ocean Sustainability, Renewable Energy and Acoustics, where CFD, HPC and AI are core expertises. In 2023 he started a new endeavour HydroTWIN, giving rise to the first underwater acoustics digital twin of the Ocean.
Since 2017 he has also been Lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen, in Germany, and visiting researcher at University of Southampton, in UK. Starting from 2024, he also joined IST, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal, as an Invited Professor.

This is another Seminar of the "Seminars@DEM" cycle.
Next Seminar, March 27, 2025, Thursday, 2:30 pm.