Pieter Jan Jordaens (Sirris / OWI-Lab)

Pieter Jan Jordaens joined Sirris (the Belgian collective technology center – www.sirris.be) in 2010 in the role of project leader to manage the Offshore Wind Infrastructure (OWI) project lead by Sirris, VUB and a group of Belgian companies active in the early days of offshore wind power. Since then he has been responsible to initiate, set-up and roll-out the operations of the (offshore) wind energy RD&I department at Sirris and it’s supporting services in different roles (project engineer, senior engineer, business developer, cluster manager).

Pieter Jan also acts as operating officer of OWI-Lab (www.owi-lab.be), a joint collaboration between Sirris, VUB and UGent to support (offshore) wind RD&I activities in Belgium.

During the past years PJ has set-up the large climatic test facility for wind turbine components in Antwerp, supported the structural health monitoring (SHM) RD&I trajectory of OWI-Lab in partnership with VUB, and together with UGent managed the IBN Offshore Energy Cluster in which between 2007-2020 more than 20 large RD&I project linked to offshore wind energy were set-up.

Before joining Sirris, Pieter Jan obtained a Master's degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering at KU Leuven. He also joined the International Postgraduate Programme in Entrepreneurial Engineering after his Master. PJ is also the president of Technovation Hub vzw, a platform initiating and supporting hi-tech engineering student projects.