Research Interests

• Wind Farm (Co-)Design
• Offshore Wind
• Life-Cycle Assessment of Wind Energy Production
• Systems Engineering

Curriculum Vitae

• 2013-2018 B.Sc. in Industrial Energy Technology at Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
• 2017: Semester abroad at Aalto University, Finland
• 2018-2021: M.Sc. in Power Engineering at Technische Universität München. Master Thesis: 'Combined life cycle impact and cost assessment of wind energy generation in large-scale offshore wind farms'

• 2020/21: Trainee at Mecal Wind Turbine Design B.V., Enschede, Netherlands

• since 2022: PhD Candidate at Chair of Wind Energy

Publications

• Kainz, S., Guilloré, A. & Bottasso, C. L. (2024). How do technological choices affect the economic and environmental performance of offshore wind farms? In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 2767, Issue 8, p. 082005). IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2767/8/082005

• S. Kainz, J. Quick, M. Souza de Alencar, S. Sanchez Perez Moreno, K. Dykes, C. J. Bay, M. B. Zaaijer, and P. Bortolotti, The IEA Wind 740-10-MW Reference Offshore Wind Plants, 2024, IEA Wind Task 55, NREL Tech. Rep., https://doi.org/10.2172/2333634