About Niek Bruinsma

Niek Bruinsma is a senior offshore researcher and consultant at Deltares, where he has enthusiastically been working on advancing offshore wind since 2016. He leads the "Hydrodynamic Loads on Offshore Structures" group, which focuses on making offshore energy infrastructure more resilient, cost-effective, and future-proof. Niek builds bridges between research and industry by coordinating Joint Industry Projects (JIPs) and collaborations that address pressing design challenges such as extreme wave loads on offshore wind turbines, hydrodynamic loads on subsea power cables, and the behaviour of floating offshore wind and solar structures.

Driven by curiosity and collaboration, he works with clients and partners to reduce uncertainty in design by developing robust, validated methods and tools. He combines physical, numerical, and analytical modelling with probabilistic techniques to find fit-for-purpose solutions that are technically sound and practically applicable. Niek enjoys translating complex hydrodynamics into actionable knowledge.

He has contributed to:

• JIP RUNWAVE: Improved methods for extreme wave loading on monopiles

• JIP HYROC: Hydrodynamic loads on dynamic cable protection systems

• JIP CPS: Motion and stability assessment of cable protection systems (project page)

• JIP CALM: Reducing subsea cable failure risks over the full lifecycle (project page)

• Design advice on scour protection, wave run-up, and cable stability
  

I'm passionate about making offshore energy smarter, safer, and more sustainable, by finding fit-for-purpose solutions for the present and future challenges of the industry.

Niek Bruinsma