About Koen Castelein

Koen is mechanical engineer and Test Engineer in the geo-modelhal. Koen is an experienced research engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the energy industry. His key expertise is making the translation of a research topic into an experiment. Besides design and realisation of the setups for various projects; he supports the realisation of the experimental models and helps executing experiments inside the geo-centrifuge and the geo-model hall.

Examples of projects Koen worked on in the Geolab project:
• ISEDEA (anchor pulling test)
• PTM2I (plate pushing test (monopile segment simulation)
• Benchmark (small pile loading testing in comparison with other centrifuges) https://project-geolab.eu/

HybridLabs - Accelerating Dutch innovations in offshore renewables through data-driven hybrid labs
• Development of an in-flight impact hammer (https://hybridlabs.tudelft.nl/)