Maurizio Collu is a Professor in Offshore Renewable Energy Engineering, having joined the Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering Department of the University of Strathclyde in August 2018. Maurizio's area of expertise is applied mechanics, focusing on multidisciplinary, coupled model of dynamics of offshore renewable energy systems.

Professor Collu's research in the areas of analysis and design of floating offshore wind turbines and multi-purpose offshore structures is recognised as excellent at international level. He also chair of the ITTC Ocean Renewable Energy committee (2021-24), member of the editorial board of the Ocean Engineering and Wind Energy Science journals, member of the scientific advisory committee in major international research projects and several offshore engineering conferences.

He has directly managed ~4.5M£ of public research funding, in projects for a total value of ~28.5M£, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council UK (EPSRC), Natural Environment Research Council UK (NERC), Newton funds UK, Innovate UK, Royal Society (UK), EETF (Scottish Government), ORE Catapult (UK), Energy FP7 and H2020 (EU).

He works closely with the private sector, with companies ranging from small start-ups to large multinational energy companies. This work has involved concept selection and preliminary design of floating support structures for offshore wind turbine farms for offshore wind developers, design of support tools for innovative offshore wind turbine configurations, developing a dedicated, advanced aero-hydro-servo-elastic coupled model of dynamics, due diligence review of novel floating wind turbine support structure designs and technical feasibility assessment of floating offshore wind turbine configuration with hydrogen production and storage facilities.