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Professor Irene Penesis is the Research Director for the Blue Economy CRC.

Irene was the bid leader responsible for developing the successful application to the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) program. Irene’s passion for a transition to renewable energy, environmental sustainability and decarbonisation of marine and maritime industries led her to developing the successful application to the Commonwealth’s CRC program. Irene is on secondment from the Australian Maritime College, University of Tasmania where she led a multi-disciplinary research team working in the field of marine renewable energy and contributing to educating maritime engineering students in the Centre for Maritime Engineering and Hydrodynamics.

Irene is the Australian Primary Delegate of the International Energy Agency’s Ocean Energy Systems (OES), and on the Steering Committees of the Tasmanian Government’s Renewable Energy Action Plan, the Marine Energy Research Australia (MERA) at the University of Western Australia and MERIC Chile’s Scientific International Committee.

Irene was the Chair of Marine Renewable Energy Specialist Committee of the International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC) between 2011 and 2017, a peak international body developing technical guidelines and procedures relevant to the hydrodynamic testing of wave energy converters, marine current/tidal turbines and offshore wind turbines.

Irene is the next Chairperson for the International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE) to be held in Melbourne, Australia in 2024.

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