As a research scientist and engineer, Georgios Deskos focuses of high-fidelity modeling and high-performance computing for offshore wind energy, air-sea interactions, and more recently extreme event modeling. Georgios is an experienced computational scientist and engineer that currently leads the development of offshore wind energy capability within the Exawind project, a state-of-the-art modeling framework for the next generation of supercomputers. Prior to joining NREL at the end of 2019, he spent 5 years as a researcher in academia focusing on utilizing high-performance computing in computational fluid dynamics models.

Research Interests

High-Fidelity Modeling for Offshore Wind Energy

Air-Sea Interactions and Implications for Offshore Wind Energy

Extreme Event Modeling using Data-Driven Techniques

Education

Ph.D., Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London

M.S., Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech

B.S., Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens

Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (2019–2021)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Imperial College London (2018–2019)

Research Assistant, Imperial College London (2014–2015)

Featured Work

Scientific Challenges to Characterizing the Wind Resource in the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Wind Energy Science (Preprint)

Combining shallow-water and analytical wake models for tidal array micro-siting, Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy (2022)

Numerical investigation of the influence of shear and thermal stratification on the wind turbine tip-vortex stability, Wind Energy (2022)

Review of Wind–Wave Coupling Models for Large-Eddy Simulation of the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (2021)

Awards and Honors

President’s Award, NREL (2021)

Osbourne Reynolds Award, European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (2018)