Curriculum Vitae
Volker Bertram
16.04.1960 born in Hamburg, Germany
07.06.1978 Abitur at Herder Highschool, Rendsburg
01.07.1978 - 31.12.1979 Internship at shipyard Nobiskrug, Rendsburg
02.04.1979 - 30.06.1980 mandatory military service
17.03.1980 - 31.08.1983 study of naval architecture in Hamburg
05.09.1983 - 17.08.1984 study of naval architecture at University of Michigan
work as research assistant CAD for Prof. Klaus Beier degree M.S.E.
12.10.1984 - 28.08.1985 study of naval architecture in Hamburg
degree Diplom-Ingenieur
01.09.1985 - 31.12.1990 collaborator of Prof. Söding and Prof. Keil (IfS)
12.07.1990 Dr.-Ing. of the Institut für Schiffbau (IfS)
01.02.1991 - 31.07.1991 associate at McKinsey&Co.
01.08.1991 - 31.03.1993 researcher at HSVA 01.04.1993 - 30.09.1999 assistant professor (ship design) at IfS/TUHH
31.08.1994 habilitation (ship hydrodynamics) at TU Berlin
01.07.1995 - 31.12.1995 sabbatical at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries R&D Center, Nagasaki
10.07.1996 full academical professoral rights (ship hydrodynamics) at IfS 01.06.1999 - 30.09.1999 researcher at Italian ship model basin INSEAN, Rome 01.10.1999 - 30.11.1999 visiting professor for 'Ship Design' at Danish Technical University, Lyngby
01.12.1999 - 30.06.2002 Research group manager at HSVA (7 PhDs, 4 masters)
01.06.2002 ‘enseignant chercheur’ (tenured professor) at ENSIETA, Brest/France 31.01.2003 qualification as university professor in France (Nr.03160126575)
01.01.2005 extraordinary professor for fluid mechanics at Stellenbosch University
Professional experience
1983 part-time job at ship design office Kölln-Jacoby, Hamburg (design of harbor tugs)
1986 consulting for IKL on submarine hydrodynamics 1987 consulting for VBD Duisburg on shallow water resistance 1988 Software development for MTG Hamburg for SWATH design 1991 management consultant for company (shipbuilding and ship owner) 1991 project engineer at HSVA (resistance and propulsion department) 1992 visiting professor at Institut Teknologi, Bandung, Indonesia 1994 consultant for Bremer Vulkan Verbund for Short Sea Shipping 1994 stability expert evaluation for capsize accident of FINN-BALTIC with Prof. Abicht 1995 manoeuvring expert evaluation for collision accident ZIM ANGLIA-BORSTEL with Prof. Söding 1995 R+D sabbatical at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki 1996 expert evaluation for wake wash of SES for Blohm&Voss 1999 researcher at model basin INSEAN/Rome (basic research for trimarans hydrodynamics) 1999 project manager at Hamburg Ship Model Basin HSVA (CFD department)
Editor of journals
Editor Ship Technology Research/Schiffstechnik
Co-Editor Journal Marine Science and Technology Co-Editor Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment Co-Editor Journal of Ships and Offshore Structures
Organised conferences and summer schools
1993 summer school 'Computational Fluid Dynamics for Ships' (with Prof. Keil)
1994 Forum 'Computational Fluid Dynamics' 1994 summer school 'Current issues in ship design' (with Prof. Keil) 1995 Forum 'TEU 6000+', Hamburg 1996 11th Workshop Water Waves and Floating Bodies, Hamburg 1996 Forum 'Captain Computer', Hamburg 1998 WEGEMT school 'Expert Systems for Maritime Applications', Hamburg 1998 Forum 'Captain Computer II' 1998 1st High-Performance Marine Vehicle Conference, South Africa 1998 1st Numerical Towing Tank Symposium, Hamburg 1999 WEGEMT school 'CFD for Ship and Offshore Design', Hamburg 1999 2nd Numerical Towing Tank Symposium, Rome 2000 1st Conference Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries, Potsdam 2000 Summer School Virtual Reality and AI in Design and Manufacture, Potsdam 2000 3rd Numerical Towing Tank Symposium, Tjarno 2000 Gothenburg 2000 Workshop, Göteborg (with Prof. Larsson und Prof. Stern) 2001 2nd High-Performance Marine Vehicles Conference, Hamburg 2001 WEGEMT school 'Manoeuvring and Manoeuvring Devices', Rome 2001 4th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium, Hamburg 2002 Forum 'Captain Computer IV’, Brest 2002 3rd High-Performance Marine Vehicles Conference, Bergen 2003 2nd Conference Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries, Hamburg 2003 6th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium, Rome 2004 3rd Conference Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries, Siguenza 2004 7th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium, Hamburg 2004 4th High-Performance Marine Vehicles Conference, Rome 2005 4th Conference Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries, Hamburg 2007 6th Conference Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries, Cortona 2007 10th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium, Hamburg 2008 7th Conference Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries, Liege 2009 8th Conference Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries, Budapest
Publications
More than 250, largely on ship design, ship hydrodynamics, IT for ships, environmental aspects of ships
One book on ship design with Prof. Schneekluth. (1998), One book on ship hydrodynamics (2000)
Awards and scholarships
1983 Fulbright scholarship
1984 Veith-Berghoff scholarship 1989 Scholarship of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 1991 Kurt-Hartwig-Siemers award for best PhD thesis of Hamburg 1991 Silver medal of Werner-von-Siemens-Stiftung for PhD thesis 1994 2. price in international competition ''Futuristic Ship Design for Short Sea Shipping'' (with master student J. Kohnagel) 1995 Silver medal of Kyushu University
Awards for students under my supervision
1994 1. price of association of German engineers (VDI) Hamburg for Diplom-thesis Kohnagel (1500 Euro)
1998 2. price of association of German engineers (VDI) Hamburg for Kaeding (750 Euro) 1999 1. price design competition 'Futuristic cruiseship' of HDW (5000 Euro) 2002 price for the best diploma thesis of TUHH for Lindenau (1300 Euro)
Teaching experience
‚Descriptive geometry’
‚Technical English’ ‚Management for Naval Architects’ ‚Ship seakeeping I+II (with Prof. Söding) ,Manoeuvring of ships (with Prof. Söding) ,Economics and Environmental Performance of Ships’ ‘Seakeeping of ships and offshore structures’ ‚Basics of ship manufacturing and ship structural design’ ‘Ship structures’ ‘Ship manoeuvring’ ‘Ship stability’ (with Dr. Laurens) ‘Engineering fluid mechanics’ (with Drs. Kerampran, Grosjean, Laurens)
Diverse teaching units in summer schools on expert systems, CFD, optimization, antifouling, ship production, ship structural design, ship design, tugs, manoeuvring, ship types, ship safety
Involvement in PhD committees
Evaluation for Dr. Pekka Ruponen, Helsinki Technical University (2007)
“Progressive Flooding of a Damaged Passenger Ship”
Thesis director for Dr. Adrian Constantinescu, University of Western Brittany (2006)
“Modélisation 2D de l’impact d’une structure sur l’eau – Initialisation de l’endommagement”
Committee member for Dr. Pierre Debaillon, TU Compagnie (2005)
“Système de modélisation de l’enfoncement dynamique des bateaux”
Opponent for Dr Bastiaan Veelo, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (2004)
“ Variations of Shape in Industrial Geometric Models”
Evaluation for Dr. Juha Schweighofer, Helsinki Technical University (2003)
"Investigation of Two-dimensional Transom Waves using Inviscid and Viscous Free-Surface Boundary Conditions at Model- and Full-Scale Ship Reynolds Numbers"
Committee member for Dr. Jean-Marc Laurens, UBO, Brest (2003)
"Comportement hydrodynamique d'un gouvernail travaillant dans le sillage d'une helice"
Evaluation for Lars Carlsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Gøteborg (2002)
"Towards Accurate Numerical Methods for Ship Flows on Composite Overlapping Grids"
Evaluation for Dr. Walter Hassenflug, Univ. of Stellenbosch (1997)
"Convolution Number and its Application to Elliptic Integrals and the Schwarz-Christoffel Transformation"
Committee member for Dr. Christiane Doese, Univ. Hamburg (1997)
"Datenmodellierung im Schiffsentwurf und Prozeßmodellierung als Grundlage für ein Concurrent Engineering"
Evaluation for Dr. Hans-Dieter Ehrenberg, Univ. Hamburg (1996)
"Verhalten von Luftkissenkatamaranen (SES) im Seegang"
Committee member for Dr. Pierre Sames, Univ. Hamburg (1996)
"Ein Beitrag zur Berechnung turbulenter Schiffsumströmungen" |
