Explore Exciting New Career Opportunities at ForWind - Center for Wind Energy Research

The ForWind Bremen Campus, hosted by the University of Bremen, focuses on power electronics reliability, marine geotechnics, and full-scale turbine testing. Facilities such as the HiPE-LAB for high-power converter testing under climatic loads, the research wind turbine in Bremen Industrial Park, and MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences support investigations into offshore wind farm geotechnics and component durability.

• Power Electronics and Lifetime Prediction
• Marine Sediment Mechanics
• Full-Scale Wind Turbine Testing
• Offshore Foundation Geotechnics
• Environmental Impact Assessments

Courses emphasize electrical engineering, geosciences, and marine sciences, offering specialized training in wind energy systems reliability, geophysical modeling, and experimental validation for sustainable offshore development.

The ForWind Hannover Campus at Leibniz Universität Hannover emphasizes structural dynamics, wave-current interactions, and power electronics for wind energy systems. Key facilities include the Large Wave Flume (GWK+), GeCoLab generator-converter test bench, 3D wave basin, Immersive Media Lab, and Test Center for Load-bearing Structures, enabling research on offshore wind foundations, tidal flows, and system stability.

• Hydraulic and Coastal Engineering
• Structural Mechanics and Fatigue Analysis
• Power Electronics and Converter Testing
• Wave-Current Interaction Studies
• Virtual Acoustic Environments for Noise Assessment

Academic offerings cover advanced engineering courses in wind turbine dynamics, offshore structures, and electrical systems, with hands-on lab work for master's and PhD students in mechanical and electrical engineering.

The ForWind Oldenburg Campus, located at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, specializes in wind physics, turbulence research, and atmospheric boundary layer studies critical for wind energy applications. This campus houses advanced facilities like the WindLab with its turbulent wind tunnel for simulating atmospheric flows interacting with wind farms and turbines, and the acoustic wind tunnel for aeroacoustic testing of blades and models.

• Wind Physics and Turbulence Modeling
• Atmospheric Boundary Layer Simulations
• Aeroacoustics and Blade Testing
• High-Performance Computing for Wind Flow Simulations
• Scalable Wind Turbine Model Experiments

Research here supports courses and graduate programs in physics, meteorology, and engineering, focusing on numerical simulations, experimental wind tunnel studies, and data analysis for optimizing wind turbine performance in real-world conditions.