Speakers

Born in 1948, Anton Magne Gjørven's educational journey began with high school in 1964, followed by an M.Sc. in 1971 from NTNU in Trondheim. His professional career commenced in 1972 as a teacher at Møre og Romsdal tekniske skole, a technical high school. From 1974 to 1977, he contributed as a Research Assistant at FCB, SINTEF- working mainly with Concrete Offshore Structures. He then moved into engineering, working as a civil engineer at Dr. Techn Olav Olsen in Oslo from 1978 to 1981. During this period, he was involved in the design of the Statfjord B concrete offshore platform. His expertise continued to develop by working as an engineer with a bridge design consultant in Sandvika, Vik, Vigerust and Aarskog, 1981-1982. From 1982 he has been working with design of concrete structures and with performing FEM-analyses of structures and foundations with Strømme, Berdal Strømme and finally Norconsult- up to the present day.
Some of the recent Work experience:
Consultant to ExxonMobil on the Hebron Concrete Gravity Base Structure (GBS) which has been under construction at the Bull Arm site in New Foundland (2015) and was placed in the Hibernia area in 2016-2017. The platform (a monotower with deck weight 65000 tons) has a total weight of 860000 tons and is one of the bigger off-shore platforms in the world. ExxonMobil hired Anton Gjørven as Concrete and FEM-specialist to the project from 2011 and up to 2016. Main contribution to the consultant work was concrete design, wave loads and seismic design, crack-widths in concrete and ABAQUS FEM-analyses

Bob has used Abaqus since 1993 and other codes (including Boundary Element) since around 1980. Bob still works at the "coal face" making detailed consultancy models which all nowadays involve contact; friction; finite-sliding; plasticity and ultimate failure.

Dr. Robert Luo holds BEng, MEng and PhD qualifications and the position of the Chartered Engineer, the Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He has 34 years’ experience in Abaqus, published 3 books and more than 70 peer-reviewed journal papers. He is a SIMULIA Champion in 2021.

Jan Schröder is a researcher and doctoral student at the Institute of Solid Mechanics at Dresden University of Technology. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree (M.Sc.) in mechanical engineering. Working with Simpack for over 5 years, he gained experience as a student research assistant, industry intern at CLAAS, researching excitation behavior of gears for his diploma thesis and since march 2025 as a fulltime researcher. He specializes in modeling yarn dynamics in high-speed warp knitting using Simpack.

Freysteinn received his BSc in Mechatronics Engineering from Reykjavik University in 2018 and his MSc in Electromagnetics, Fusion and Space Engineering from KTH in 2020. He started working as an RF engineer at TERASi in 2025.

- B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering (Institute of Engineering and Technology, India)

- Worked as Lead Engineer at Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India (2006 – 2010)

- M. Sc. in Vehicle Dynamics (Coventry University, UK)

- Joined Simulia / Simpack at DASSAULT SYSTEMES in 2012

- Currently working as Senior Technical Manager for MultiPhysics including Multibody Dynamics, Electromagnetics and Vibro Acoustics

Giovanni Fiore is an Industry Consultant Manager for Fluid Dynamics simulations in EuroNORTH. He has a background in Applied Aerodynamics and has 15 years’ experience in CFD and aerodynamic correlation activities. He leads a brilliant Team of 4 people whose activities range from vehicle aerodynamics and aeroacoustics, to aerospace and life science applications.

Tom Lindén is a Aerodynamics and Particle Modeling expert in the World Wide IPS T&M team. He has over 20 years of Automotive Aerodynamics experience, in both physical testing and CFD. His main focus is within the T&M industry, but also provides guidance in all industries with regards to Particle Modeling. He is currently working on expanding methodologies in multi-species gas dynamics and multiphase solutions for PowerFLOW.

Alejandro MARTINEZ NAVARRO is an Industry Process Specialist within the Industry Process Success Team for Transport and Mobility. He focuses on CFD applications and methodology developments for external aerodynamics in the automotive industry.

Tommaso Messa is a CFD engineer in the Northern Europe SIMULIA Fluids Team at Dassault Systèmes. He has experience in both aerospace and automotive industries, focusing on vehicle aerodynamics, thermal management, and fluid-structure interaction. He works with automotive OEMs to develop and deploy advanced simulation workflows using PowerFLOW and the 3DEXPERIENCE Fluid Dynamics Engineer Role (FMK), while contributing to R&D initiatives aimed at advancing CFD methodologies and simulation-driven design within the Transportation & Mobility sector.

Guido PARENTI is an Industry Process Senior Specialist, with 19 years of experience in aerodynamics and automotive industry.

As a member of the Industry Process Success Team for Transport and Mobility, he supports costumer’s engagements and deployments, bringing forward the latest advancements in simulation capabilities, methodologies and best practices with a specific focus on exterior aerodynamics

Ben Pine has worked for Dassault Systemes SIMULIA for almost 7 years. He works on electromagnetic simulations, especially in the areas of particle accelerators, MRI, permanent magnets and superconductivity. Before joining Dassault Systemes, Ben worked at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK for 15 years, as an Accelerator Physicist with the ISIS Spallation Neutron Source. Ben got his DPhil in Particle Physics from Oxford University in 2016.

Eric VERON joined Dassault Systèmes in 2017 as a Research Engineer and has since progressed to the role of Industry Process Consultant. Prior to this, he built extensive experience across several industrial organizations in the naval, energy, and space sectors. He brings over 15 years of expertise in simulation, with a focus on computational solid mechanics and co-simulation-driven multi-physics modeling. Eric holds both a Master of Science and a PhD in Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering.

Yingjie YOU is an Industrial Process Consultant and has worked in this role for Dassault Systemès since September 2018.

Her main responsibility is delivering Electromagnetic Simulation technical solutions to a wide variety of customers across the EuroNorth. She specialises in antenna design, microwave component simulation and high power component simulation.

Prior to her current role, she worked as an early stage researcher for the 5G European Research (Horizon-2020) Programme. She studied for both her MSc and PhD degree at the University of Sheffield, UK, focussing on antenna design and propagation models for wireless mobile network systems.