Safety and Reliability of Offshore Renewable Energies

Dr. Rouzbeh Abbassi is a Professor of Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering at Macquarie University, Australia and serves within the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Innovation and Transformation. With over 230 peer‑reviewed publications and multiple books authored and edited, Dr. Abbassi is recognized for his work in risk assessment, safety engineering, corrosion and failure analysis, Bayesian network modeling, and smart energy systems, including hydrogen, offshore wind, and wastewater-based energy recovery. He leads major national and international projects (e.g., BE‑CRC for hydrogen safety), holds editorial roles in top safety and environmental engineering journals, and frequently advises industry partners on offshore infrastructure resilience.

Dr. Ehsan Arzaghi is a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Queensland University of Technology, in Australia. Upon completing his PhD at the University of Tasmania in 2018, he held postdoctoral research fellow positions at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) and Queensland University of Technology, where he conducted research in risk and reliability engineering within offshore renewable energy applications. He is currently leading a multidisciplinary research team consisting of 7 PhDs and postdoctoral fellows. Dr. Arzaghi’s main interest lies in developing new methods and tools for reliability assessment, risk analysis and decision-making of offshore renewable energy assets and operations, and he currently has over 40 publications in high quality journals and conferences with over 1,000 citations. He is strongly engaged with the Australian Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre, which aims to generate knowledge and technologies to harness energy from renewable resources and support sustainable development of civil infrastructure in the offshore environment.

Dr. Fatemeh Salehi is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Academic Lead, Sustainability in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, at Macquarie University, Australia. Her team aims to develop physical and data-driven models for computational fluid dynamic simulations of turbulent flows to advance clean energy technologies, and she is particularly interested in heat and mass transfer modelling, optimization, energy efficiency, and application of clean fuels. Dr. Salehi’s research was recognized in the NSW Government’s Hydrogen Strategy (2021) and she has over 100 papers to date. She is a member of the Combustion Institute (ANZ), the Australian National Computational Merit Allocation Committee, the Scientific Advisory Board of Blue Economy Corporative Research Centre (CRC), and Working Groups of Standards Australia for the development of hydrogen standards, and program leader of the Enabling Research Program of Scaling Green Hydrogen CRC bid. She has received several prestigious awards for her work.

Dr. Nagi Abdussamie is an Assistant Professor in Marine Engineering at the University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST) in Qatar. He is a globally recognized researcher with expertise spanning academia and industry. In over five years in industry, Dr. Abdussamie made significant contributions to shipping companies and the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), playing a key role in establishing UDST's innovative Marine Engineering program. He has held several academic roles, notably as Deputy Program Leader of Offshore Engineering & Technology at the Blue Economy Cooperative-Research Centre (2019-2023), spearheading sustainable offshore aquaculture and renewable energy initiatives. Dr. Abdussamie is currently a member of the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC) Specialist Committee V.4 Offshore Renewable Energy. His research interests span offshore renewable energy structures, Computational Fluid Dynamics, wave-induced loads, and risk assessment. Dr. Abdussamie has supervised over 40 students and contributed over 50 articles to high-impact journals.