Tim Behrens

Engineer, PhD, ASEP

Tönning, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

About

product owner - wind turbine systems - control systems - software dev - aerodynamics & CFD - loads & multi-body-simulation - multi-disciplinary design optimization

Experience

  • Product Management at Wölfel Group
    Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

    Blade monitoring systems

  • GE Vernova (10 yrs 9 mos)
    • Associate Principal Engineer, Operability SW platform
      Oct 2022 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Owner of Offshore Wind closed-loop control software platforms and member of engineering staff organisation

    • Product Owner - Performance & Operability - SW platform & Quality
      Dec 2020 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Operability software platform for closed loop turbine controls. Major architecture refactoring. Product Owner and developer as part of an XP pair

    • Product Owner - Haliade-X - Performance & Operability Software
      Apr 2018 - Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Haliade-X 12/13MW Offshore turbine Performance & Operability software: stakeholder/backlog management, maximizing total value created by the development team. Responsibility for delivering controller software solutions for prototype operation and internal/external customers. Interface to components and system certification bodies.

  • Senior Engineer at Samsung Heavy Industries
    Apr 2014 - Aug 2014 · 5 mos

    offshore wind, simulations and tool development

  • Engineer, wind energy at German Aerospace Center (DLR)
    Jan 2013 - Mar 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos

    - technical lead of DLR's planned acquisition of full scale turbine facilities, site development - preparing the adaption of in-house simulation tools (rotor dynamics, multibody loads simulations, frameworks) to wind energy applications - internal consulting for wind energy projects and steering of external consultants

  • Vestas (4 yrs 8 mos)
    • Asst. Lead Engineer, Aerodynamics
      Aug 2011 - Dec 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos

      - aerodynamics of wind turbines, product integration and support - power curves and load simulations - designing and evaluating aerodynamic add-ons - tool coupling and multi-disciplinary design optimization (MDO) of wind turbines

    • Industrial PhD student
      May 2008 - Jul 2011 · 3 yrs 3 mos

      - computational fluid dynamics (CFD) / immersed boundary method - wind turbine aerodynamics - smart rotor research / trailing edge flaps