Ola Widlund
Title: Head of Unit at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB
Role in INFINITY: Project Coordinator. Ola coordinates the project’s implementation and ensures overall coherence—from governance and monitoring to standardisation and dissemination activities. The role includes creating the conditions for effective collaboration among partners, as well as driving activities that strengthen exploitation and external dialogue.
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Mikael Sidenmark
Title: CEO at Ocean Harvesting Technologies AB
Role in INFINITY: Mikael is responsible for the development and realisation of the PTO (power take-off) solution, with a focus on design, optimisation and manufacturing. Building on Ocean Harvesting’s technology development, he leads the work to take the PTO from design choices to deliverable solutions that can be tested and evaluated within the project chain.
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Johanna Berlin
Title: Research Director at NILU Climate and Environment Institute AB
Role in INFINITY: Johanna leads the project’s impact assessment, linking technical results to cost, environmental impact and feasibility. Within WP7, she coordinates work including life-cycle perspectives and decision-support material on how solutions can be scaled and create value in a European context.
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Giacomo Alessandri
Title: Senior R&D Engineer at VGA S.r.l.
Role in INFINITY: Giacomo is responsible for planning and executing the dry testing campaign for the G6 PTO, including test setup, test runs and initial verification of key data. The role also involves ensuring the tests generate outputs that are useful for further analysis, model validation and improvements in continued development.
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Giuseppe Giorgi
Title: Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino
Role in INFINITY: Giuseppe contributes the scientific basis for control and modelling of wave energy systems. His input strengthens the link between theoretical control methods and practical requirements in the development and testing of the PTO and associated control strategies.
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John V. Ringwood
Title: Professor of Electronic Engineering at Maynooth University and Director, Centre for Ocean Energy Research (COER)
Role in INFINITY: John leads the development of the control system, from mathematical modelling and simulation to near real-time implementation together with the other partners. The focus is to develop and demonstrate control methods that can improve energy capture while managing loads and operating conditions in a way that supports long-term performance.
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Pär Johannesson
Title: Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB
Role in INFINITY: Pär is responsible for lifetime and reliability aspects, including models for critical components, structural health monitoring and uncertainty analysis. His role is to provide methods and decision-support so that technology choices and maintenance strategies can be based on data and robust assumptions rather than rules of thumb.
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Steven Sarasini
Title: Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB
Role in INFINITY: Steven leads the project’s work on circular industrialisation: how manufacturing, sourcing, assembly/service logic and business models can be designed to support circularity across the life cycle. Within WP6, practical industrial considerations are linked to the project’s technical workstreams so that solutions can function both technically and within a future supply chain.
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Anneli Selvefors
Title: Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB
Role in INFINITY: Anneli focuses on methods and frameworks that support sustainable production and consumption, and in the INFINITY project she collaborates with Steven Sarasini on integrating sustainability perspectives into the development of next-generation wave energy systems.
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Nicolas Faedo
Title: Assistant Professor Politecnico di Torino
Role in INFINITY: Nicolas works with model reduction and control strategies aimed at improving performance and reliability of renewable energy converters. In the INFINITY project he works alongside Giuseppe Giorgi on technical modelling and control aspects of wave energy technology.
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David Carlstedt
Title: Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB
Role in INFINITY: David brings experience from both academic research and industry, including structural simulation and testing. In INFINITY he collaborates with Pär Johannesson on technical research tasks related to system reliability and mechanical performance.
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Cody Bradway
Title: COO, Ocean Harvesting Technologies AB
Role in INFINITY: Cody leads operational strategy and project execution for the development of the InfinityWEC wave energy converter. With experience in international energy and offshore operations, his work in the INFINITY project focuses on supporting the industrial integration and scaling of power take-off technology and system validation.
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Paul Christian Tesso Woafo
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Ocean Energy Research, Maynooth University
Role in INFINITY: Paul Cristian Tesso Woafo focuses on improving energy capture and operational robustness through advanced control strategies. Within the INFINITY project, he works on the development and evaluation of control approaches to enhance system performance and reliability.
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Carrie Anne Barry
Title: Lab Manager and Researcher, Centre for Ocean Energy Research (COER), Maynooth University
Role in INFINITY: Carrie Anne Barry oversees laboratory operations and supports experimental research activities in marine and wave energy systems. In the INFINITY project, she contributes to experimental coordination and technical support within the COER team, facilitating testing and validation activities.
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