Daniel is a Chartered Professional Engineer with 20 years of experience spanning environmental, coastal, metocean and civil engineering and science. With Honours degrees in Civil Engineering and Biological Sciences, followed by a PhD in Environmental Engineering, he has been involved in numerous projects in the energy, water, ports, resources and infrastructure sectors. Throughout his career Daniel has been and remains committed to progressing sustainable development and the efficient use of natural resources, respecting input and expectations of multiple stakeholders. At Iberdrola Australia, Daniel is currently focused on the feasibility investigations and assessments for development of the Aurora Green offshore wind project in the Gippsland, Victoria.

Richard Sandberg is the Melbourne Energy Institute’s Interim Director. Professor Sandberg is also Chair Professor of Computational Mechanics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. His main interest is in high-fidelity simulation of turbulent flows in turbomachinery and aerospace applications in order to gain physical understanding of flow and noise mechanisms. He also uses the data to help assess and improve low-order models that can be employed in an industrial context, in particular by pursuing novel machine-learning approaches.

Richard received his PhD in 2004 in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Arizona and prior to joining the University of Melbourne, he was a Professor of Fluid Dynamics and Aeroacoustics in the Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics research group at the University of Southampton and headed the UK Turbulence Consortium (www.turbulence.ac.uk). He was awarded a veski innovation fellowship entitled: “Impacting Industry by enabling a step-change in simulation fidelity for flow and noise problems”, was granted an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship for 2020-2024 and was elected Fellow of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society in 2024.