Dominik Traphan

Head of Data Analytics | AI + Culture = 🚀

Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

About

I am a data enthusiast working in the renewables domain for 10+ years. My motto reflects the way I work: impact first, AI second. As a physicist with a degree in business administration, I strive for unconventional solutions. Always focused on product innovation, with a passion for the latest technology, but with a keen eye on profitability.

Experience

  • ENERCON (Hybrid)
    • Head of Data Analytics
      2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

      Driving ENERCON’s Digital Transformation and AI Scale-Up - Responsible for the R&D AI Strategy, from frontrunner to ENERCON-wide standard - Founding member of the ENERCON Data & AI steering board to get scalable AI solutions into corporate domains - Full disciplinary and budget responsibility for Data Engineering and Data Science teams from Europe and India - Monetizing AI, from internal productivity solution to external data product

    • Team Lead Data Science
      2022 - 2025 · 3 yrs

      Building a high-impact Team with attitude, and culture - Implemented a rigorous value-driven framework to ensure AI initiatives have high business impact and low risk - Designed, built, and led a 12-FTE data team, focusing on merging deep domain and AI expertise through targeted recruitment - Created a spirit of ‘giving energy’ to internal stakeholders, pro-actively offering support in solving R&D pains and finding novel solutions to achieve strategic R&D goals

    • Team Lead Data Analysis and Integration
      2021 - 2022 · 1 yr

      Founding a self-sufficient Data Team - Formed an effective international team capable of end-to-end data product development, from ideation, through initial pilot to full-scale production - Expanded the team's scope beyond project value assessment to also include AI driven turbine engineering, and operational data processing to make turbines smarter - Directed the team to automate data, training and deployment pipelines, enabling the first generation of scalable data solutions in R&D

  • ForWind – Zentrum für Windenergieforschung (Full-time · 6 yrs 1 mo)
    • Lead Researcher and Scientific Project Manager
      2016 - 2018 · 2 yrs

      Promoting wind turbine technology ∠ Acquiring and managing projects dealing with rotor blade aerodynamics, extreme events, fatigue loads and predictive maintenance ∠ Technical lead of young scientists in the field of unsteady aerodynamics, 3D data analysis and flow visualization

    • Scientific Researcher
      2012 - 2016 · 4 yrs

      Cutting-edge research for the future of wind energy ∠ Uncovering connections in complex data sets using pattern recognition and stochastic time series analysis ∠ Expert in design of experiments and optical flow visualization

  • Visiting Research Scientist at Portland State University
    2015 - 2015 · Less than a year

    ∠ Regression and pattern recognition in experimental data of turbulent flow about rotor blades ∠ Dynamical modeling of complex stochastic processes ∠ Developed analysis code for big experimental data sets

  • Research And Teaching Assistant at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V.
    2007 - 2011 · 4 yrs

    Intermittend employment with different responsibilities: ∠ Contribution to literature review on »The Evolvement of Energy Informatics« at the Department of Information Management ∠ Educational support and professional supervision of school classes conducting different lab projects at the DLR_School_Lab