Environmental Research Institute

• PhD Researcher - Ecological impacts associated with renewable energy devices in extreme marine environments.
  Supervisors: Dr Angus Jackson, Dr Mark Shields and Prof. Jonathan Side (ICIT)

• Renewable Energy and the Environment

• May - September 2008
  Summer Internal, MARINTEK, Norway
• 2002 - 2008
  German Diploma (equivalent to M.Sc. degree), Environmental Sciences
  Thesis Topic: Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) on inclined cylinder shaped fish cages in a current and the resulting flow field.
  Institution: Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg/Germany and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim/Norway
• March - June 2006
  CREATE project, Experimental investigation of the wake formation behind a porous cylinder.
  SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, Trondheim, Norway
• March - August 2005
  INTEGRATE project, Analysis of particle size and particular organic matter at a commercial Atlantic salmon farm / Jektholmen/Norway.
  SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, Trondheim, Norway

Qualifications:

• German Diploma (equivalent to M.Sc. degree), Environmental Sciences
  Thesis Topic: Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) on inclined cylinder shaped fish cages in a current and the resulting flow field.
  Institution: Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg/Germany and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim/Norway

• Harendza, A., Visscher, J., Gansel, L. and Pettersen, B.. PIV on inclined cylinder shaped fish cages in a current and the resulting flow field. Proceedings of OMAE 2008 27th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering

• Marine Ecology
• Oceanography
• Hydrodynamics
• Aquaculture