Expertise

George has expertise in marine energies, numerical modelling, statistics, Climate analysis, renewable energy assessments, and energy economics. He has worked with governmental-industrial partners on renewable energies, was the co-founder a Climate Consultancy, and worked as an Energy Consultant in energy projects.

George is the Work Group Leader at WECANET a European Funded COST Action (CA17105), member of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) JP Ocean, a steering commitee member at the TU Delft Wind Energy Institute (DUWIND), board member of the TU Delft Ocean Energy Platform, Vice-Chair of the International Integrated Wave Energy Research Group (IIWER), Member of the MCAA Climate Policy Group, member of EC Expert Groups on ocean data, and scientific advisor to several NGO’s and EU institutions.

He is a published author, reviewer, and editor in scientific journals in renewable energies and wave modelling. George is an academic evaluator for PhDs, MSc and BEng committees. He is also a Reviewer of the European Commission in HORIZON 2020, HORIZON Europe for (i) SME Instrument (ii) Innovative Actions (IA) (iii) Marie Skłodowska-Curie framework (IF, CO-Fund, RISE, ITN).

Biografie

George Lavidas is an Assistant Professor of Marine Renewable Energies at the Offshore Engineering group, and Head of the  Marine Renewable Energies Lab (MREL).
George holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh (UoE) on wave energy, and an MSc in Renewable Energies from Heriot-Watt (HW) University. His primary focus is the development of technologies through interdisciplinary methodologies that accelerate the energy transition. Within his research interests are renewable energy generation, ocean modelling, resource assessments, wind & ocean energies, wave farm arrays, extreme waves, coastal protection, wave statistics, Climate Change, and integration of marine renewables.

Prijzen

George Lavidas has received multiple awards: his project WAVREP received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 787344. 

He was granted a 4-year (PhD) scholarship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). In 2018 he received the "Promising Researcher" travel grant to Saga University in Japan. Throughout 2018-2020 George was awarded the Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing by Renewable Energy.

Publicatie

More detail information on his research can be found in:

Google Scholar

Research Gate

PURE (TU Delft repository)

ORCID

Projecten

George has been awarded and leading, as Principal Investigator (PI), several research projects, most notably:

2022 PI at the TKI Deltaworks funded project Dutch - Wave And Tidal Energy ResourceS (Dutch-WATERS), that provides valuable climate information for offshore energy farms (wave and tidal), coastal protection/climate resilient infrastructure and the Dutch energy system.

2021 Work Package Leader and TU Delft PI of the EC (EU Green Deal) EC funded project: European Scalable Complementary Offshore Renewable Energy Sources (EU-SCORES: Project ID 101036457), awarded by HORIZON 2020. The aim of the project is to prove that the efficient and effective use of offshore renewables (wind-wave-solar) is pivotal in the transition of the EU to become a net-zero economy in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. 

2020 consortium member of the EC funded project: Verification through Accelerated testing Leading to Improved wave energy Designs (VALID, Project ID: 101006927), awarded by HORIZON 2020. The aim of the project is to de-risk wave energy converters design in terms of components reliability and survivability by developing an integrated and open platform for the testing of critical components and subsystems. 

2018 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship for his research project WAVREP (WAVe Resource for Electrical Production, Project ID: 787344), focus of the project was to accelerate the wave energy outreach and technological considerations for Wave Energy Converters (WECs). 

Since 2015 he has concluded several consultancy projects in the fields of marine energies, offshore wind, resource assessment (solar-wind-wave), feasibility analysis, engineering design, and economic evaluations for commercial projects.

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