Axelle Vire is a full professor of Floating Wind Energy at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and the Scientific Director of the Floating Renewables Lab. She currently leads a team of PhD candidates and post-doctoral researchers working on the numerical modelling, experimental testing, and system design for floating offshore wind turbines and farms. She is also involved in projects on large wind turbine rotors and airborne wind energy. Her expertise lies in fluid-structure interactions, multi-fluids problems, aeroelasticity, and turbulent flows. She is an Education Fellow at TU Delft since 2023.

AxeIle graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), where she also completed a PhD in computational fluid mechanics in 2010. She then worked as a Research Fellow at Imperial College London (UK) for 3 years before joining TU Delft. Aside from her research, Axelle is passionate about promoting science to the general public and developing activities on wind/marine renewable energies across TU Delft.

She is also the Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Officer and the Chair of the Faculty Staff Council.

research interest

• Floating offshore wind energy
• Airborne wind energy
• Fluid-structure interactions
• High-fidelity numerical modelling
• Turbulence modelling