The trainers

Mário Ribeiro is a Mechanical Engineer with a Master in CAE/CAM in Mechanical Engineering obtained in 1994 in Technical University of Lisbon. Mário is a Senior Engineer in ISQ, with more than 30 years of experience in different industrial sectors from Oil & Gas, pipelines for hazardouos products integrity management, ground aviation support infrastructures, paper production and transformation as others. Has more than 20 years of experience in international R&D projects in areas of robotics and energy (convencional, renewables and hydrogen), participated in the Demowfloat and Windfloat offshore wind projects in Portugal. Developed several industrial reliability projects and managed maintenance supervision contracts for different industrial sectors on Oil & Gas, pipelines and aviation.

 

Marta Gonzalez holds a MSc in Civil Engineering from the University of A Coruña (Spain) and brings over 13 years of experience in the offshore wind sector. Marta is a skilled project manager with a proven track record across Europe, the USA, and Asia, covering the full project lifecycle—from conceptual design to decommissioning.

In the context of Portugal, Marta has specific experience in evaluating port infrastructure and supply chain capacity, as well as conducting project cost and market assessments.

Her academic and professional development includes accredited training in Project Management (George Washington University), Occupational Risk Prevention (Universidad Internacional de La Rioja), Quality and Environmental Control (Fundación Laboral de la Construcción), Innovation and Change Management (University of California) and Wind Energy (Technical University of Denmark).

 

Javier Molinero is a MSc Civil Engineer and holds a MBA from California School of Management. Javier has worked at DNV since 2021, initially as the floating wind development lead in North America. He currently works at DNV’s OMD team, as offshore development lead in Spain.

Javier has since 2011 worked in the offshore wind and Oil & Gas industries, primarily managing and contributing to technical due diligence, market assessment and cost and risk assessments. Javier has in this period led technical due diligences for bottom fixed offshore wind projects in UK, Germany and Denmark and numerous floating offshore wind projects. He has also conducted floating wind market- and cost studies for many of the leading floating wind developers.

Prior to DNV, Javier worked developing the WindFloat technology at Principle Power as project and engineering manager for several commercial and R&D projects.

 

Daniela Ribeiro has over 15 years of experience in renewable energy and is specialized in wind and solar resource assessment, and energy production analysis of wind and solar projects at a pre-construction stage. Daniela’s past experience includes work both in consultancy and project development, having been involved in wind resource analysis, wind farm layout design, and measurement campaign specifications and supervision for a large number of regions.

Daniela currently acts as market segment manager Portugal, working from the office in Lisbon, and has been acting as project manager and contributor for market studies for offshore wind in Portugal and Brazil.

Daniela holds a MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Coimbra, with specialization in Energy & Environment.

 

Alexandra Magalhães joined DNV in 2007 as a research engineer for European projects in the Netherlands and later moved to Lisbon, where she works as a consultant and project manager contributing to technical and environmental & social (E&S) due diligences, feasibility studies, and construction monitoring for onshore/offshore wind, solar, hydrogen production, gas distribution, and hydro projects. Alexandra’s core expertise lies in permitting, health, safety and environment (HSE), social impact, and compliance with international standards such as the equator principles, IFC performance standards, Green Loan Principles, and Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) criteria. She is experienced in aligning projects with World Bank and EBRD requirements and has led training and project management initiatives in these areas.

In offshore wind, Alexandra has supported permitting and E&S constraints analysis and site selection in Portugal and Brazil and conducted equator principles review for UK-based projects.

Alexandra holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering with specialization in Environmental Protection Technologies. Her professional training includes Publicly Available Asset Management Principles (IAM), Quantitative Risk Assessment (DNV), Project Management (PMI), Land Acquisition and Social Sustainability (University of Groningen, World Bank, IFC), and e-Social Impact Assessment (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow).

 

Nils Schayes graduated in Geosciences from the University of Montpellier (France) and MSc in Geophysics at the Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris.

He has worked as Geophysicist / GIS engineer involved in and managing renewable energy and Oil & Gas projects.

He collaborated in Ground Model, Geohazard, desktop studies, cable/pipeline routing, and he is familiar with the offshore environment by his participation to offshore surveys and foundation installation operations.

Since joining DNV in 2022, Nils has participated to offshore wind projects, e.g. with subsea cable (route) analysis and technical due diligence assignments. In parallel, he is supporting the french government and TSO in the de-risking phase of the upcoming offshore wind projects in France, by providing technical assistance to the preparation, follow-up and deliverable review of the geophysical/geotechnical surveys currently performed.

 

Gabriele Bolzoni joined DNV in October 2019 after graduating in Aeronautical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, with a strong background in aerodynamics. His master thesis focused on the multi-disciplinary optimization method for wind turbine design, aiming at lowering the LCoE of the WTG.

At DNV, Gabriele specialized on load calculation for offshore and onshore projects, with some insights in the development of new wind turbine "concept" models. He is currently working for the Wind Technology team bringing expertise to load and lifetime assessment, wind farm performance, Root Cause Analysis and performing manufactory audits. As part of the root cause analysis team, he also contributed to sharing knowledge in the industry by writing posters on wind technology for Torque, WindEurope and EPRI.

 

Pilar Heras holds an MSc in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid. She has been working in the field of floating wind and offshore floating structures since 2014.

Pilar joined DNV in 2022 and currently leads the floating wind section within the Renewables Certification business, which operates globally. She contributes to the delivery and development of third-party assurance services, integrating both certification and classification approaches, having her primary focus on project certification of (floating) offshore wind farms.

She also serves as country responsible for Spain and Portugal within Renewables Certification, supporting business development, strategic planning, and execution of certification projects across Iberia and/or with regional stakeholders.

Prior to joining DNV, Pilar worked for various stakeholders in the floating wind sector, specializing in hydrodynamics, testing, coupled analysis, stability, and technical and statutory compliance.

 

Lars Helge Verde has a Master of Science from NTNU in Mechanical Engineering and has worked in DNV since 2020. He has been working with dynamic slender systems including power umbilicals and cables in both Oil & Gas and renewable market. He is working on behalf of both manufacturers,  EPCI contractors and operators providing technical advice, analyses or assessments for safe design, installation and operation of cable systems.

His expertise is in global dynamic analyses of floating platform systems  including various floating wind concepts. His main focus is within the  structural and mechanical part of both static and dynamic cable systems; global response and fatigue of dynamic cables. Since 2021 he has been product owner and part of the development team in DNV responsible for the software Helica which is a specialized tool for cross section analyses of helix components.