Questions
First, we asked ourselves:
What if the academic community worked together to develop joint solutions?
The answer was found after over 30 rounds of interviews.
About us
WeDoWind was founded in a collaboration between Wind Energy Innovation Division at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST), The Swiss Wind Energy R&D Network and Charles Henderson of ENTR Alliance and Stacker Group in the US. The project is owned and run by OST.
Sarah Barber
Founder and Head of the Wind Energy Innovation Division at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST).
The group applies interdisciplinary research to develop inspiring innovative solutions that can be adopted effectively and sustainably by people to contribute positively to the wind energy sector. She is also Founder and President of The Swiss Wind Energy R&D Network, which bundles Swiss innovation capabilities in order to promote the export of Swiss know-how in products and services to the international wind energy market. She is Chair of the Diversity Committee at the European Academy of Wind Energy.
Imad Abdallah
Co-founder and CEO of RTDT Laboratories AG, a Swiss-based startup developing technologies and services for structural health monitoring of wind turbines.
Imad is also a senior scientist at the Chair of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering of ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He carried out his Ph.D. thesis research on the “Assessment of extreme design loads for modern wind turbines using the probabilistic approach” at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby, Denmark.
Charlie Henderson
Leads the ENTR Alliance, an effort funded by the US Department of Energy to introduce open source so the clean energy space in partnership with NREL.
Charlie is also CEO of Stacker Group, a team of engineers who serve the clean energy space and cities in the US by developing the Relight platform. Charlie is CTO of Thriving Cities Group, an organization working in US cities to use data for the common good. Charlie is committed to helping make the tech industry more collaborative and inclusive.