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Profile summary
Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Decarbonisation and Offshore Renewable Energy Head of the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (2017 - 2022)
Director of the COAST Laboratory
Member of the COAST Engineering Research Group
Director of the COAST Laboratory
Member of the COAST Engineering Research Group
Professional memberships
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (elected 2020)
Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects
Engineering Council, Chartered Engineer
Fellow of the Women’s Engineering Society
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Fellow of the Leadership Foundation
Senior Fellow HEA 2017
Roles on external bodies
Member of the RCUK Energy Programme’s Scientific Advisory Committee (2016 – 2020)
Member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of ICE’s international journal Engineering and Computational Mechanics
Member of the editorial board for the International Journal for Marine Energy
Member of the technical committee for EWTEC (European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference)
Member of the Offshore Wind Innovation Hub Technical Advisory Group
Member of the Plymouth Employability Skills Board
Member of the Peer-review College of the EPSRC
Member of the NERC Pool of Technologies Reviewers
Member of the Royal Society’s research Grants Board 20K (Physical Sciences) (2019 – 2021)
Reviewer for international funding bodies (Singapore Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR), Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC), German Academic Exchange Service), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NOW.
Member of the Pool of Experts for the United Nations, Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (OLA)
Previous member of the international Engineering Science Panel for Research Environment Evaluation of Uppsala University KoF2017 Quality and Renewal 2017 Uppsala University
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 4 Quality Education -
SDG 5 Gender Equality -
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy -
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth -
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 13 Climate Action -
SDG 14 Life Below Water -
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals
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High-End Computing wave structure interaction (HEC-WSI)
Greaves, D. (PI - Principal Investigator), Ransley, E. (CoI - Co-Investigator) & Lee, Y. C. (CoI - Co-Investigator)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
3/01/23 → 2/01/27
Project: Research
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Great Western Supercluster of Hydrogen Impact for Future Technologies (GW-SHIFT)
Greaves, D. (PI - Principal Investigator) & Lee, Y. C. (CoI - Co-Investigator)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/01/24 → 31/01/28
Project: Research
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EPSRC iCASE PhD Studentship: Sloshing of cryogenic hydrogen fuel - Airbus
Lee, Y. C. (PI - Principal Investigator), Greaves, D. (PI - Principal Investigator), Ransley, E. (PI - Principal Investigator) & Gambino, F. (PI - Principal Investigator)
1/10/21 → 30/09/25
Project: Research
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Entrepreneurial Futures. Nurturing, embedding and accelerating an entrepreneurial culture in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly: an agile approach from higher and further education providers
Goodhew, S. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Alencastro, J. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Agarwal, S. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Knight, H. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Warwick, P. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Blake, W. (PI - Principal Investigator), Lunt, P. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Davidson, S. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Davey, P. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Greaves, D. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Ansell, L. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Johanning, L. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Whitley, T. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Hann, M. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Lopez-Santander, A. (CoI - Co-Investigator) & Rihan, H. (CoI - Co-Investigator)
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Good Growth
1/10/23 → 31/03/25
Project: Research
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LPIP TBC
Willis, K. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Piccini, A. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Agarwal, S. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Greaves, D. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Thompson, R. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Austen, M. (CoI - Co-Investigator) & Asthana, S. (PI - Principal Investigator)
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
18/04/23 → 17/09/23
Project: Research
Research output
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A blind comparative study on isothermal sloshing in a circular tank (CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 5)
Brown, S. A., Colville, S. W., Francis, V., Zhao, T., Lee, Y. C., Cao, D., Chen, H., Chen, J., Chen, S., Davidson, J., Gong, J., Gu, H., Khayyer, A., Kim, D. H., Liu, W., Luo, M., Lyu, R., Ma, Q., Ma, H. & Mahfoze, O. & 16 others, , 30 Jul 2026, In: Ocean Engineering. 362, P2, 126290.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Closing the Gap in Offshore Wind Environmental Evidence Chains: A Workshop-Derived White Paper
Chen, J., Lieber, L., Palmer, M., Lear, D. & Greaves, D., 11 Aug 2026, Marine Research Plymouth Alliance.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Decision-making tool for onshore vs. offshore hydrogen production from offshore wind
Guichard, J., Rawlinson-Smith, R., Coles, D. & Greaves, D., 17 Mar 2026, In: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 218, 153966.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Energy storage from a wind, tidal, and wave farm via hydrogen
Guichard, J., Greaves, D., Rawlinson-Smith, R. & Coles, D., 30 Mar 2026, In: Frontiers in Energy Research. 14, 25 p., 1732813.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Experimental Study of a Scaled Flexible Riser for Hydrogen Transport from a Floating Wind Turbine Platform to the Seabed
Guichard, J., Hann, M., Tosdevin, T. & Greaves, D., 16 Jun 2026, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on HYDROELASTICITY IN MARINE TECHNOLOGY. Kristiansen, T., Greco, M. & Kristiansen, D. (eds.). Trondheim, Norway: Department of Marine Technology, NTNU, p. 145 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceedings published in a book › peer-review
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Media stories
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New Economics Study Results Reported from University of Plymouth (Techno-economic Analysis for Floating Offshore Wind and Offshore Green Hydrogen)
Michele, S., Pegler, D., Watkinson, M. & Greaves, D.
20/02/25
1 item of Media coverage
Media story
Datasets
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170426_dataset_EWTEC
Perez-Collazo, C. (Creator), Skanberg-Tippen, J. (Creator), Greaves, D. (Creator) & Iglesias Rodriguez, G. (Creator), University of Plymouth, 26 Apr 2017
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/fose-datasets/3/
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Isothermal sloshing in a circular tank (CCP-WSI Test Case 017 Dataset)
Brown, S. (Creator), Colville, S. (Creator), Lee, Y. C. (Creator) & Greaves, D. (Creator), University of Plymouth, 6 Oct 2025
DOI: 10.24382/1648f8b5-5582-44e5-8e6f-8f95c360b339, https://ccp-wsi.ac.uk/catalogue/test_cases/test_case_017 and one more link, https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/fose-datasets/60/ (show fewer)
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Marinet2 - Datasets from the "Round robin" testing program on a hinged raft wave energy converter
Ohana, J. (Creator), Davey, T. (Creator), Sarmiento, J. (Creator), Thiebaut, F. (Creator), Haquin, S. (Creator), Weber, M. (Creator), Gueydon, S. (Creator), Judge, F. (Creator), Eoin, L. (Creator), O'Shea, M. (Creator), Gabl, R. (Creator), Jordan, L.-B. (Creator), Hann, M. (Creator), Wang, D. (Creator), Collins, K. (Creator), Conley, D. (Creator), Greaves, D. (Creator), Ingram, D. (Creator) & Murphy, J. (Creator), SEANOE, 2021
DOI: 10.17882/85077, https://www.seanoe.org/data/00739/85077/
Dataset
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180427_dataset_ECM
Perez-Collazo, C. (Creator), Greaves, D. (Creator) & Iglesias Rodriguez, G. (Creator), University of Plymouth, 27 Apr 2018
DOI: 10.24382/bnwm-qd79, https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/fose-datasets/6/
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Hydrodynamic response of a floating offshore wind turbine (1st FOWT Comparative Study Dataset)
Ransley, E. (Creator), Brown, S. (Creator), Edwards, E. (Creator), Tosdevin, T. (Creator), Monk, K. (Creator), Reynolds, A. (Creator), Greaves, D. (Creator) & Hann, M. (Creator), University of Plymouth, 1 Oct 2022
DOI: 10.24382/71j2-3385, https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/fose-datasets/26/
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