Gustavo Roque da Silva Assi

Professor of Energy Transition and Renewable Energies at the University of São Paulo, Escola Politécnica, Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Brazil. Naval and Ocean Engineer and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from USP, and PhD in Aeronautics from Imperial College London. Visiting associate at the University of Oxford (2013-14), Caltech (2016-17) and Texas AM University (2023-24). Director of Innovation at the RCGI Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Innovation. Member of the Specialist Committee on Ocean Renewable Energy of the ITTC Internacional Towing Tank Conference. Research topics include fluidelasticity, fluid-structure interaction, flow-induced vibration, experimental and computational fluid dynamics, ocean renewable energy, engineering education, science communication, philosophy of technology and the interaction between science, technology and Christian faith. Deputy Director of OTIC Offshore Technology Innovation Centre. Academics degrees: "Livre Docente" in Hydrodynamics of Ocean Systems at the University of São Paulo (2021), PhD in Aeronautics at Imperial College (2009), MSc in Mechanical Engineering at the University of São Paulo (2005), and degree in Naval Architecture Ocean Engineer at the University of São Paulo (2003). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)