R.D. Geertsma MSc

R.D. Geertsma MSc

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Cdr (E) dr. ir. Rinze Geertsma, CEng, FIMarEST is an experienced naval engineering officer with a strong interest in applying revolutionary technology on naval vessels to improve their performance and availability, reduce their environmental footprint and increase their autonomy, while leaving key decisions to human operators and maintainers. He currently is Assistant Professor at the NLDA, responsible for setting up the Military Energy Systems  lab to support the introduction of climate neutral power systems in the Royal Netherlands Navy. Previously, from 2018 to 2021, he was team leader energy and smart maintenance in the Life Cycle Modelling section of the Netherlands DMO, responsible for the energy and smart maintenance roadmaps. From september 2014 to 2018 he performed research at TU Delft and the Netherlands Defence Academy resulting in his dissertation on autonomous control for adaptive ships with hybrid propulsion and power generation. He has achieved a dozen publications in engineering conferences and over ten publications in high quality Q1 scientific journals. He is a Chartered Engineer, active member of the IMarEST, committee member of the IMarEST Benelux branch, chairmen of the international Ship Control System Symposium (iSCSS), chief editor of the Journal of Marine Engineering and Technology, member of the IMarEST publications Supervisory Board and highly engaged to improve and acknowledge professional development of engineers through KIVI and IMarEST. Previously, he was responsible for the specification and design of automation systems in the Royal Netherlands Navy, introducing interactive electronic incident boards, developing advisory systems for unmanned machinery control rooms and integrating platform and combat systems for improved command advice. He has extensive operational experience as Marine Engineering Officer of HNLMS de Ruyter and HNLMS Tromp and as Deputy Marine Engineering Officer of HNLMS van Speijk, going through the complete training cycle both as a DMEO and as an MEO, and successfully managing a technical team of over 50 engineers. Earlier experience includes R&D project management, system and project engineering and in service support.

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