Anand Natarajan is working as a senior scientist at the Dept. of Wind Energy in the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He has overall 15 years of experience in wind energy. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech, U.S.A. His research focus areas include offshore wind turbine design, reliability and lifetime assessment. Prior to joining DTU, he worked in the industry at GE and Caterpillar. He is the project manager of the EU FP7 INNWIND.EU project and was the secretary of the EU TPWIND working group on offshore technology (2011-2014).