Pieter Jan joined Sirris in 2010 as a project manager in the Sustainability Department. His first task was to meet the challenge or rolling out the Offshore Wind Infrastructure (www.OWI-lab.be) project from scratch. After that, he focused on project management, operationalising and developing the R&D services of the project. In cooperation with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, he was responsible for the development of measuring equipment, to gain a better understanding of the operations of existing offshore wind turbines and their components, with a view to creating novel, improved designs and optimising maintenance. Today, Pieter Jan is responsible fot further operationalising and optimising the Application Lab's existing services. Furthermore, he takes care of business development within the OWI-Lab, to set up innovation projects and shared R&D projects in cooperation with the industry and academics, so as to put wind in the sails of wind energy in Flanders.
Before joining Sirris, Pieter Jan obtained a Master's degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering from the International University College Group T in Leuven, where he also followed the International Postgraduate Programme in Enterpreneurial Engineering, focusing on subjects such as renewable energy, mobility, making use of electricity and open innovation. During his studies he built an electrical racing car in cooperation with Sirris.
Publications
- Safer and cheaper repair of offshore wind turbines by robots
- The wind industry, today and tomorrow
- Discarding composite structures requires a holistic approach
- Understanding and characterising operational behaviour of a fleet of assets
- First 3D printed screw propeller ready for use
- OWI-Lab demonstrates importance of cold climate tests
- Brokerage event on Belgian innovation in wind energy
- Dynamic dashboards for condition monitoring
- Wanted: application engineer with a passion for wind and sea
- Modelling power curves of offshore wind turbines with machine learning