OVERVIEW 

Fiacha joined MaREI as an intern through a master’s program at Ecole Centrale Nantes. He was taken on as a member of the wet storage program to carry out the numerical modelling of floating offshore wind turbines and their mooring systems for wet storage.

CURRENT ACTIVITIES

Numerical modelling and design of mooring systems for the wet storage of floating offshore wind turbines

BACKGROUND

Fiacha has a bachelor’s in physics with energy and environment from TU Dublin. After completing his undergraduate degree, he worked as a Field Service Engineer for Nikon Precision Ireland for two years. He then decided to pursue a master’s in marine technology and hydrodynamics for ocean engineering at Ecole Centrale Nantes.