Irene Simonetti
2022 - present: Research Associate (RTD a) at Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (Florence University)
Curriculum Vitae 2016-2021: Research fellow at Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (Florence University) 2016: PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, discussing the thesis "Optimization of Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converters - A Numerical Study". Italian (Dottore di Ricerca) and German (Doktor Ingenieur) Ph.D. titles. 2012-2015: PhD Fellowship, International Doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering, XXVIII cycle (University of Florence, in consortium with TU Braunschweig). 2012: Laurea cum laude in Environmental Engineering - Ma.Sc. (University of Florence)
Research Topics Nearshore and Offshore Hydrodynamics, hydrodynamic modelling and development of digital twins of coastal basins (TWIN-COASTS project). Wave Energy Conversion technologies focusing on device optimization. CFD simulation of wave/coastal structure interaction with open source software (OpenFOAM). Numerical wave generation and Virtual wave flumes with CFD techniques.
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