Dr Thomas Davey is the Principal Experimental Officer of the FloWave facility and the main coordinator for test programmes at the facility. He has an extensive track record in the testing of marine energy devices and has been working as part of FloWave since funding was first granted back in 2010.
Professor David Ingram is the Academic Director of FloWave and Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics at the Institute for Energy Systems. His recent work has included the development of standards and protocols for marine energy systems, including procedures for quality-assured scale testing of devices using both test basins and computational models. He was instrumental in the design of the hydrodynamic systems for FloWave, and is Principal Investigator for a number of EPSRC projects that use the facility.
Dr Laura-Beth Jordan is one of the Experimental Officers at FloWave responsible for working with clients all the way from point of contact through to test programmes planning, implementation, testing, reporting and analysis.
Dr Callum Guy is one of the Experimental Officers here at FloWave responsible for working with clients from conception and planning through to testing, data packaging and reporting.
Martyn Lennon is the engineering technician for the FloWave facility. He is a highly skilled precision engineer who assists with tank test projects, specialising in CNC milling (3 and 4-axis), CNC turning, CNC laser cutting, 3D printing, CAD/CAM design and sheet metal fabrication.
Martyn has been with FloWave since 2015 with previous experience within the CNC industry. He has been involved with many marine energy device projects and uses his experience to assist in test model manufacture.
Shaun Fraser is the Assistant Experimental Officer/Instrumentation Engineer at the FloWave facility. His primary responsibilities include sensor and instrumentation integration, data acquisition and management, as well as providing general assistance with tank test programmes.
Thomas Giles is a PhD student at FloWave. Thomas started out at FloWave as a placement student in 2021 and went on to be hired full-time at FloWave after graduating in 2022 before starting his PhD in 2023. Thomas has a keen interest in marine energy and has completed a MEng integrated master’s degree in mechanical engineering where his final project was on simulation of mechanical moorings.
Anita Nunes Leite is an IDCORE student based at FloWave working towards her EngD. The project Anita is undertaking is helping to grow the testing capabilities at FloWave by implementing a recently developed method for simulating wind loads on floating offshore wind turbine models. She is developing a system that can apply dynamic loads to scale wind turbine models in real time using a winch.
Ailsa McMillan is an IDCORE student based at FloWave, working towards her EngD. Since 2022, she has been working on a project exploring the sensitivity of tower design in scaled-model floating offshore wind turbines, with a focus on nacelle accelerations and platform motions. Her research integrates tank testing, numerical modelling, and CAD software.
Katie Smith is an IDCORE student based at FloWave working towards her EngD. As of 2025, Katie is in the final year of her project and is looking to investigate how hydrodynamic numerical modelling and tank test programmes can be designed and conducted in parallel with specific focus on station-keeping systems for floating offshore renewable energy applications.
Katie graduated with distinction with an MEng in Mechanical Engineering with Aeronautics from the University of Strathclyde before joining IDCORE in 2021 and FloWave in 2022.
