Biography
Ivan Stenius received his MSc in Lightweight structures from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in 2003. He received a Technical licentiate from KTH, Lightweight structures, in 2007 and PhD in Technology KTH, Lightweight Structures on hydroelasticity and fluid structure interactions on high-speed craft in 2009. He is currently a full-time associate professor at the Department of Engineering Mechanics at KTH. He has expertise in underwater vehicles modelling design and construction, as well as manoeuvring and navigation. He has been the lead developer of design and analysis software tools in collaboration with FMV and the Swedish Coast Guard. He has been PI for a number of research projects in collaboration with the Swedish Defence Material Administration, involving cross-disciplinary collaboration between the research groups on computer vision and perception, applied electrochemistry, and networked control at KTH. In the recent years, he has been heavily involved in building up a research group in underwater technology and maritime robotics at KTH, and he is now PI of the Swedish Maritime Robotics Centre (SMaRC) hosted by KTH that involves research on underwater robotics.