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Doctor Abdussamie is a researcher with academic and industry experience. He obtained his BEng in Marine and Offshore Engineering 2006 (First Class Honours, 4/4 GPA), his MSc in Mechanical Engineering 2009 (CFD for Porous Media Flow Problems) both form the Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, Egypt, and his PhD in Ocean Engineering 2016 (Extreme Wave Impact on Offshore Structures) from Australian Maritime College (AMC), University of Tasmania (UTAS), Australia.

He spent 5+ years in industry including shipping companies and American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) classification society and was involved in several new building and operational projects of both ships and offshore structures across many countries including Libya, USA, Singapore, UAE, and Egypt. In 2013, he joined the Centre for Maritime Engineering and Hydrodynamics (CMEH), AMC, UTAS as a lecturer in the Ocean Engineering Program. He currently holds the position of the Deputy Program Leader of Offshore Engineering & Technology at the Blue Economy Cooperative-Research Centre which was established in late 2019 to deliver innovation in sustainable offshore aquaculture and renewable energy production for marine nations.

For his international standing, he served as a Member at the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC) Specialist Committee V.2 Experimental Methods (2018-2022), and currently he is a Member at the ISSC Specialist Committee V.4 Offshore Renewable Energy (2022-2025). His research interests include offshore renewable energy structures (wind and wave), Computational Fluid Dynamics, flow in porous media, wave-induced loads on offshore platforms and ships, and risk and safety assessment of marine and mechanical systems.

Over the period 2014-2022, he has supervised 40+, Honours and Masters by Coursework students, and Higher Degree by Research PhD candidates. He has published several research articles (40+) in high-impact international journals as well as presented peer-reviewed papers at international and national conferences.

His objective is to become a leading researcher in renewable and sustainable energy field and make impactful contribution to decarbonization during the energy transition

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