Dr. Paul Dimmock
Dr. Paul Dimmock is a chartered engineer with experience across Client, Consultant and Research roles, and has worked across offshore and onshore geotechnical developments. His experience spans all project stages from appraisal through to execute, operate and decommissioning. Paul has broad experience and knowledge in managing geoscience and geotechnical engineering teams, and values strong teamwork and collaboration to achieve improved engineering outcomes.
Mr. Avi Shonberg
Mr. Avi Shonberg is a Senior Lead Geotechnical Engineer at Ørsted in London, UK. With more than 14 years’ experience as a geotechnical engineer, Avi has had a focus on offshore foundation design since joining Ørsted in 2014, with a particular focus on integrated site investigations, suction bucket design, pile design, pile load testing, soil-structure interaction, cyclic effects on soils and 3D finite element modelling. Avi has experience across the full life cycle of offshore wind farm development, including scoping of offshore site investigation works and laboratory campaigns, geohazard/risk assessments, foundation concept studies, scoping and managing full-scale pile loading tests and responsibility for the detailed geotechnical design of numerous offshore wind farms in northern Europe and Taiwan. Avi is actively involved in current state-of-the-art geotechnical research, is currently a TP member of ISO/TC 67/SC 7/Working Group 10 (TP3 Shallow and Intermediate Foundations) and currently sits on the SUT OSIG Committee.
Dr. Andrew Long
Dr. Andrew Long has a Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of Western Australia, and his career includes experience with land seismic acquisition and processing, and satellite altimetry R&D for producing marine gravity products. Following postdoctoral research in seismic imaging and crustal geophysics at Stanford University, he joined PGS in 1997. Andrew was an SEG Honorary Lecturer for the Pacific South region in 2009 and has presented various courses on seismic-related geophysics for the SEG, EAGE and ASEG. He is a member of ASEG, EAGE, PESA and SEG. Until the merger of TGS and PGS he was Chief Geoscientist for PGS with interests in most areas of seismic technology and the quantitative interpretation of geophysical data. His interests in offshore wind site characterization span the full spectrum of potential reflection seismic applications, from survey design to quantitative property prediction and description. His LinkedIn profile is https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlongoz/.
Ms. Yu Liping
Ms. Yu Liping holds a PhD in engineering and has more than 15 years of experience in Energy industry with Equinor. With earlier years working on North sea oil and gas field development, operation and daily optimization. Liping has been in leading positions responsible for deliveries from subsurface multidisciplinary engineering team for project development. Since 2019, Liping started her journey with renewables, and has managed technical deliveries for Equinor’s portfolio of renewable energy projects with a focus on offshore wind in the APAC region.
Mr. Carl Erbrich
Mr. Carl Erbrich has over 35 years’ experience, principally in the offshore wind and oil and gas industries. He is currently the Technical Director of Fugro’s Marine Geoconsulting team in Perth, and prior to the acquisition by the Fugro Group, was an Executive Director of Advanced Geomechanics since 1998. Carl’s expertise covers a wide field with particular expertise in geotechnical engineering, offshore and onshore geomechanics, advanced numerical analysis, calcareous soils, pile foundations, bucket foundations, foundations in soft rocks and seismic engineering. He has also been responsible for the detailed design of foundations for numerous major structures both offshore Australia and elsewhere in the world. Carl has been at the forefront in the development of many state-of-the art design methods, particularly for addressing the complexities of calcareous soils in offshore foundation design, and he is also an expert in the application of advanced numerical analysis methods to the solution of complex engineering problems.
Prof. Phil Watson
Prof. Phil Watson is the Shell Professor of Offshore Engineering and Director of the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub on Transforming offshore Infrastructure through Digital Engineering (TIDE) at the University of Western Australia. He is a Fellow of The Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering and the Institution of Engineers Australia, and the current Chair of ISSMGE Technical Committee 209 ‘Offshore Geotechnics’. Phil is passionate about aligning industry and academia to solve challenges facing the offshore sector – and training tomorrows generation of geotechnical leaders.
