Offshore Floating Wind Foundation Specialist, Sener

Biography

Marco Vergassola is a mechanical engineer with an MSc in Sustainable Energy Technologies, specialized in offshore wind foundation solutions. Since 2023, he has been working at SENER as offshore floating wind foundation engineer and SKS and IAC specialist. From 2019 to 2023 Marco was pursuing a PhD in Civil Engineering at the Offshore Engineering section of the Delft University of Technology. During the 4 years there, his work focused on bottom-fixed foundations for offshore wind energy in intermediate to deep waters. In 2019, he interned at Fraunhofer IWES, developing water wave models for the MoWiT simulation library. Marco's expertise includes offshore wind support structures design, aero-hydro-servo-elastic simulations, fluid-structure interaction analysis, CFD simulations of multi-phase flows, and the design of offshore mooring systems and dynamic cables.