Department of Marine Systems Engineering, Kyushu University,
744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
E-mail: utsunomiya@nams.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Tomoaki Utsunomiya is currently a professor at Department of Marine Systems Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan. His research interests have been in the areas of fluid-structure interactions, dynamics of offshore structures, hydroelastic analysis of Very Large Floating Structures (VLFS), dynamics of floating bridges, and dynamics of floating offshore wind turbines. He has been actively working for development of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs); the developed FOWT of a hybrid-spar type has been commercialized as the first grid-connected floating wind turbine in Asia-Pacific. He is now serving as an Associate Editor for journal of Applied Ocean Research.