2024

• We are now part of TWINVEST, a research project focusing on the construction of a Digital Twin for onshore wind farms for improved operations and future investments. More information is following soon.

2023

• [22.11.2023] - Of today, we are officialy part of BlueBARGE, an EU Horizon-funded project on "Blue Bunkering of Anchored ships with Renewable Generated Electricity". You can find out more on the project's website and the EU's website.

• [23.10.2023] - Congratulations to Daeseong Park who successfully defended his dissertation, today! The title of his thesis is 'Model-based Design of Marine Hybrid Power Systems - With a case study of DC Grid Architecture and Control'. We wish all the best for your further career!
   

• [16.10.2023] - Maritime Batteries 101: An introductory course to maritime battery systems held by the Maritime Battery Forum

• [10.10.2023] - Use of hydrogen in ship propulsion to decarbonize maritime industry: a guest lecture by professor Damien Guilbert, Université de Lorraine

• A PhD position is available as part of the Center HYDROGENi and for "Hydrogen-based zero-carbon marine power systems". Apply here.

• We will be part of FLEXSHIP project, which will focus on "flexible and modular large battery systems for safe on-board integration and operation of electric power, demonstrated in multiple type of ships". For further information check out the project's webpage.

• [23.01.2023] - Today, PhDs Gianmarco Saponaro and Davide d'Amato from the Polytechnic University of Bari have been visiting us to present and discuss their research work on prescriptive digital twins. It has been a constructive exchange of ideas leading to future collaborations.
  

2022

• [19.12.2022] - We would like to congratulate Siamak Karimi on successfully defending his dissertation with the title 'Shore-to-Ship Charging Systems for Battery-Electric Ships: Power Systems Architecture, Performance Analysis and Future Trends'and earning his doctoral degree!
    
• [09.08.2022] - We will be part of the upcoming FLEXSHIP project. The EU Horizon project will facilitate the transition to climate neutral waterborne transportation by means of electrification and Green Digital Twins (GDT).

• [28.07.2022] - Prof. Minjoo Choi and two of his master students from the Korea Maritime and Ocean University were visiting us. Prof. Choi gave an introduction to the OASYS Lab (Optimization and Artificial intelligence for marine SYStems LAB) at his university.
  

• [11.07.2022] - Prof. Amir Ebrahimi from the Institute for Drive Systems and Power Electronics at Leibniz Universität Hannover was visiting us and presented the research projects of his group.

• [24.06.2022] - We would like to congratulate Pramod Ghimire on successfully defending his dissertation with the title 'Simulation-Based Ship Hybrid Power System Concept Studies and Performance Analyses' and earning his doctoral degree!
     

• A Postdoc is available in connection to the INTERPORT project. Apply here! (The position is now assigned)

2021

• Mehdi will be a panellist at the upcoming ISGT conference, with the title: "Electrification and digitalization pathway on land, at sea & in the air".

• We are proud to be part of the "INTERPORT" project which focuses on integrated energy systems in ports of the future. The project starting in 2021 has a duration of 4 years and is coordinated by SINTEF Energi. Our team will contribute by modelling and optimizing marine energy systems.

• We would like to welcome Gianmaria Giannini who is a visiting researcher from the University of Porto. His research project is Analysis of offshore wave energy converters’ subsystems for improving reliability and efficiency.

• Prof. Mehdi Zadeh is announced as lecturer for the course "Energy Management Strategies" which is part of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Decentralised smart ENergy SYStems (DENSYS).

• We welcome Marius Hatlehol as a new candidate and member of Hybrid Power lab. Marius is going to work on modeling, design and control of hybrid electric power and propulsion for future low-emission and autonomous vessels.

2020

• We welcome Hyungjun Jeon as a new candidate and member of Hybrid Power lab. Hyungjun is going to work on battery management systems for optimal operation of hybrid ships.

• Following paper has been accepted to publish in IEEE electrification magazine, Issue June 2020.

N. Shakeri, M. Zadeh and J. Bremnes Nielsen, "Hydrogen Fuel Cells for Ship Electric Propulsion: Moving Toward Greener Ships,", IEEE Electrification Magazine, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 27-43, June 2020.

2019

• We are pleased to announce that following paper has been published in Marine Engineering:

Hiroyaso Kifune , Mehdi Zadeh, "Overview of Electric Ship Propulsion and Fuel Consumption", Marine engineering, Vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 576-581, 2019.

• The article by MARIT researchers is selected as Technology Leaders in the IEEE Electrification Magazine:

  Pramod Ghimire, Daeseong Park, Mehdi Zadeh, Jarle Thorstensen, and Eilif Pedersen "Shipboard Electric Power Conversion: System Architecture, Applications, Control, and Challenges," IEEE Electrification Magazine, Dec. 2019.

• Following paper has been accepted to publish in IEEE electrification magazine, Issue Dec 2019.

Pramod Ghimirea, Daeseong Park, Mehdi Zadeh, Jarle Thorstensen, and Eilif Pedersen "Shipboard Electric Power Conversion: System Architecture, Applications, Control, and Challenges," IEEE Electrification Magazine, Dec. 2019.

• Following paper has been accepted to publish in IEEE electrification magazine, Issue Dec 2019.

Muzaidi Othman, Namireddy P. Reddy, Pramod Ghimire, Mehdi Zadeh, Amjad Anvari Moghaddam, Josep M. Guerrero, "A Hybrid Power System Laboratory for Testing of Electric," IEEE Electrification Magazine, Dec. 2019.

• Following paper has been accepted to publish in IEEE electrification magazine, Issue Dec 2019.

Namireddy P. Reddy, Mehdi Zadeh, Christoph Alexander Thieme, Roger Skjetne, Asgeir Johan Sørensen, Svein Aanond Aanondsen, Morten Breivik, and Egil Eide, "Zero-emission autonomous ferries for urban water transport", IEEE Electrification Magazine, Dec. 2019.

• We welcome Siamak Karimi as a new candidate and member of Hybrid Power lab. Siamak is going to work on modeling and optimal design of marine hybrid power and propulsion.

• Prof. Mehdi Zadeh is appointed as the new leader for the Power Systems work package at the Research-Based Innovation Center (SFI) Smart Maritime.

• We welcome Florian Perabo as a new candidate and member of Hybrid Power lab. Florian is going to work on Development of simulator platform to verify integrated control systems based on digital twin.

• We are pleased to announce that following paper has been published in EEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), Detroit, MI, USA, 2019, pp. 1-6.

N. P. Reddy, D. Pasdeloup, M. K. Zadeh and R. Skjetne, "An Intelligent Power and Energy Management System for Fuel Cell/Battery Hybrid Electric Vehicle Using Reinforcement Learning," 2019 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), Detroit, MI, USA, 2019, pp. 1-6.

• We are pleased to announce that following paper has been published in 2019 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), Detroit, MI, USA, 2019, pp. 1-6.

D. Park and M. K. Zadeh, "Dynamic Modeling and Stability Analysis of Onboard DC Power System for Hybrid Electric Ships," 2019 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), Detroit, MI, USA, 2019, pp. 1-6.

2018

• We are pleased to announce that following paper has been published in ECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Washington, DC, 2018, pp. 5171-5176.

H. Nademi, M. Zadeh and T. Undeland, "Interfacing an Electric Vehicle to the Grid with Modular Conversion Unit: A Case Study of a Charging Station and its Control Framework," IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Washington, DC, 2018, pp. 5171-5176.