Hervé Gontier graduated in mechanical engineering in Brest, France, in 2005 after an Erasmus year at the
Technical University of Berlin. There, he got acquainted with the field of wind energy in which he carried
out his thesis in 2005. He then moved to Kiel, in northern Germany, to research with Prof. Schaffarczyk on
a project aimed at providing the wind turbine community with improved synthetic wind fields for the
multi-megawatt class. Those wind fields are used for simulations of wind turbines in the process of calculating
loads. He presented his work at the DEWEK in 2006 and at the "Science of making torque from wind" conference at
Copenhagen in 2007. After concluding his work in Kiel, he returned to Berlin by the mid-2007 to start at
Euros GmbH, further focussing on load calculations. He is now working at WINDnovation, doing load calculations
and aerodynamic design of rotor blades.
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