Professor Dr. Emma Edwards

Biography

Emma completed her BSc in Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012. She worked as a research assistant for a year at the University of Edinburgh's Institute of Energy Systems, where she was introduced to wave energy. Emma completed her PhD at MIT in 2020 under the supervision of Professor Dick Yue, with a thesis titled ‘Optimization of Geometry for Axisymmetric Point Absorber Wave Energy Converters.’ She held a part-time postdoctoral position at MIT with Professor Yue for a year and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship from 2021-2023 at the University of Plymouth, working with Professor Deborah Greaves and Dr. Martyn Hann to expand her expertise to Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs) through physical modeling within global hubs for offshore renewable energy research. In addition to her academic pursuits, Emma competed as a professional cyclist from 2018 to 2022. In October 2023, she began her role as a Career Development Fellow in Engineering at St Peter's College, University of Oxford.

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