Prof. Dr.-Ing. Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud Gomaa

Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)
Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Ship Theory (M8)
Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 4 (C)
21073 Hamburg

Phone: +49 40 42878 6053
E-mail: m.abdel-maksoud@tuhh.de

http://www.panmare.de

 

Academic Qualifications

October 1977 - June 1982
Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture)

January 1984 - April 1986
Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Master of Science (M.Sc. Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture)

October 1987 - December 1988
Institute of Ship and Ocean Technology, Technical University of Berlin, Master courses

January 1989 - May 1992
Institute of Ship and Ocean Technology, Technical University of Berlin, PhD

Profession

January 1984 - April 1987
Research Assistant, Alexandria University, Faculty of Engineering (Department Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture)

January 1992 - April 1994
Research Assistant, Institute of Ship and Ocean Technology, Technical University of Berlin

April 1994 - January 1995
Research Assistant, Potsdam Model Basin (SVA)

February 1995 - December 2002
Head of Department "Numerical Simulation", Potsdam Model Basin (SVA)

January 2003 - July 2007
Professor at Institute of Ship Technology and Transport Systems, Duisburg-Essen University

August 2003 - July 2007
Managing Director of Institute of Ship Technology and Transport Systems, Duisburg-Essen University

August 2007 - Present
Head of Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Ship Theory, Hamburg University of Technology

 

Awards and Honours

2019
Silver commemorative medal of the German Society for Maritime Technology (STG) for the excellent contributions to the German shipbuilding community

2023
2023 AVT Panel Excellence Award of the NATO Science and Technology Organization for the extraordinary scientific contribution rendered to the Applied Vehicle Technology Panel

2024
2024 AVT Excellence Award of the NATO Science and Technology Organization for longstanding service and extraordinary scientific contribution rendered to the Applied Technology Panel

 

Professional Affiliations

1990 - Present
German Society for Maritime Technology STG (Germany)

1991 - Present
Association of Engineers VDI (Germany)

1995 - Present
American Society of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineers (SNAME)

October 1997 - November 1999
Resistance and Flow Committee, International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC)

May 2000 - December 2007
Committee "Propulsion" of the German Navy

2005 - 2017
Chairman of the Hydrodynamics Committee of STG

2008 - 2019
Deputy Chairman of the Maritime Research Centre at Hamburg University of Technology

2013 - 2017
Member of the Council of the Managing Board of German Society for Maritime Technology

2010 - Present
Member of the German Navy scientific team in the NATO Applied Vehicle Technology Panel (AVT)

2016 - Present
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Friendship System GmbH

2016 - 2023
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Potsdam Model Basin

October 2019 - December 2021
Chairman of the Maritime Research Centre of Hamburg University of Technology

2022 - Present
Member of the Maritime Research Centre of Hamburg University of Technology

2024 - Present
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Potsdam Model Basin

 

Fields of Research

Ship Propulsion

Ship Manoeuvring

Ship Motion in Waves

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Cavitation

Maritime Renewable Energy

Underwater Acoustics

 

Peer Reviewer

Editorial board member of the Ship Technology Research

Editorial board member of Journal of Ship Research

More than 25 International Conferences.

 

Publications

Authored, co-authored more than 250 papers in international conferences and journals.

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