Eleni Minga

About Eleni Minga

Eleni has a highly technical background. She has developed her problem-solving skills working in different areas of research, including soil-structure interaction of offshore wind turbine foundations. Eleni is enthusiastic about new challenges and believes in interdisciplinary approaches for the solution of complex problems. 

Education and early career 

Eleni studied Civil and Environmental engineering in Thessaloniki, Greece, specialising in structural design. She then moved to Paris to pursue a MRes focusing on numerical modelling and structural analysis under dynamic excitations.
She went on to pursue a PhD in computational structural mechanics at Imperial College London where she gained expertise in Finite Element modelling of structures and soil-structure interaction under cyclic loading conditions. 
After completing her PhD, Eleni worked at the University of Oxford conducting research on the design of monopile foundations of offshore wind turbines as part of the PISA project.

Professional Experience 

Eleni has 5 years of experience in software development for R&D. She has been involved in the conception and development of tools for engineering modelling and design, automation of processes and machine learning applications.
She also has over 3 years of experience in the offshore wind industry, focusing on foundation design and analysis for several OWF projects. She specialises in monopile foundation design, structural analysis using FEM and offshore T&I processes. She has delivered and managed a number of design and analysis projects and has worked as owner’s engineer for Sofia OWF during the detailed design process. In parallel, she has lead the design and development of Fathom for EE.

Why offshore wind? 

“Offshore wind has the potential to lead the transition to green energy at a global scale. The entire process of offshore wind energy production is being constantly optimised to reach carbon neutral goals. It is exciting and rewarding to contribute to this process by developing innovative practises for engineering design. The technical challenges and the fast developments in this young sector only make the work more interesting and motivating.”