Head of Wind Turbine Aerodynamics and Hidrodynamics Group, CENER´s Wind Energy Department

Biography

Dr. Beatriz Mendez. Senior Engineer in CENER´s Wind Turbine Design and Analysis Department since 2011. Assistant professor in Universidad Publica de Navarra (Fluid Mechanics department). I received her Engineering M.Sc. at University Carlos III de Madrid and her Ph.D. in the field of computational fluid mechanics at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. She also received a Fullbright award for a post-doctoral research in UCSD (California). Her main research interest is wind turbine aerodynamics and hydrodyanmics, with a particular focus on computational fluid dynamics. In 2002 she started her career working on wind energy and aeronautics at the main Spanish industries: Sener, Gamesa, Airbus and Acciona Windpower (9 years). In CENER she has been involved in various research and commercial projects. Currently she is the coordinator of HE AIRE project.