About
Dr. Oscar Festa is a post-doctoral researcher and Enterprise Fellow within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton. Oscar's research focuses on machine learning methods for the design and analysis of floating offshore wind turbines.
Oscar currently leads Xmoor, a university spin-out company developing commercial software for design optimisation of floating offshore wind turbines.
Oscar reports to Professor Susan Gourvenec, Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies in Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering (IROE).