Professor Paul Taylor

Professor Paul Taylor is Chair in Ocean Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Western Australia. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford and the University of Plymouth. His research covers four main areas: wave-structure interactions for offshore renewable energy (wave loads on fixed and motions of floating offshore wind turbines, and wave power – environmental characterisation and machine behaviour), wave-structure interaction on deep water (greenwater on deck for FPSOs, gap resonance effects for FLNG), wave modelling at the coast (wave-by-wave prediction and Boussinesq modelling) and the properties of extreme waves on the open sea (physics and statistics of nonlinear wave-wave interactions).