New Steering Board Elected for 2019-2020

The General Assembly of SFI Offshore Mechatronics elected the following new board members for the period 2019-2020 on November 15, 2018:

Industry Partners:
Leif Haukom (GCE NODE, re-elected as Chair person)
Charlotte Skourup (ABB, re-elected as deputy Chair person)
Morten Halvorsen (NOV, re-elected member)
Sjur Henning Hollekim (MHWirth, new member)
Eivind Gimming Stensland (MacGregor, re-elected deputy member)

In addition, the new board will consist of the following members from the research partners:
Geir Grasmo (UiA, re-elected)
Philipp Schubert (RWTH Aachen, new member)
Houxiang Zhang (NTNU Aalesund, new member)
Thor Arne Håverstad (NORCE, re-elected deputy member)

New Researcher WP3.8

Yvonne Murray completed her BSc in Mechatronics at the University of Agder in 2016. During her last semester of the MSc degree, she was accepted to an integrated MSc/PhD program at UiA. The Master’s thesis with title “Review of Formal Verification of Smart Contracts Running on Blockchain” was delivered in October, and the further research for the PhD will be on formal verification of autonomous systems.