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Funding and Grants

As Principal Investigator:

1. Kapitaniak, M., Terrero Gonzalez, A., Stone, M. & Neilson, R., Aberdeen City Region Deal (UK & Scottish Governments), PortSim: Digital Toolbox for Port Operations, £ 249,880, Jun 2026 – Dec 2027.
2. Kapitaniak, M., Terrero Gonzalez, A., Ivanovic, A. & Neilson, R., ORE Catapult, Entanglement complexities in floating offshore wind farms, £ 89,431, Jan 2026 – Mar 2027.
3. Kapitaniak, M., Blackfish Engineering, Offshore wind: walk-to-work standardisation, £11,584, Dec 2025 – Sep 2026.
4. Kapitaniak, M., Terrero Gonzalez, A., Olatunde, M. & Neilson, R., ORE Catapult, Floating offshore wind major component exchange, £51,453, Dec 2024 – Jun 2026.
5. Kapitaniak, M. & Olatunde, M., Interface, Virtual prototyping of safe anchorage areas for floating wind applications, £7,497, Jan 2025 – Mar 2025.
6. Kapitaniak, M. & Terrero Gonzalez, A., Interface, Virtual Prototyping Of A New Spar-type Floating Offshore Wind Turbine, £7,496, Sep 2024 – Nov 2024.
7. Kapitaniak, M., Stone, M., Olatunde, M. & Neilson, R., CNR International UK Ltd, Novel methods for topside removal: Phase 1 Feasibility Study, £8,109, Apr 2024 – Jun 2024.
8. Kapitaniak, M. & Terrero Gonzalez, A., EPSRC Supergen ORE Hub, Maximising potential of shallow ports for floating offshore wind deployment, £49,992, Mar 2024 – Feb 2025.
9. Kapitaniak, M., Terrero Gonzalez, A. & Neilson, R.,  Dublin Offshore, Floating Wind Mooring Lines Load Reduction Device: Modelling and Optimisation, £36,902, Jun 2023 – Oct 2023.
10. Kapitaniak, M. & Vaziri, V., Petroleum Technology Development Fund, Simulations of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines, £65,664, Oct 2023 – Sep 2026.
11. Kapitaniak, M. & Terrero Gonzalez, A., Interface, Virtual Prototyping of a Novel Vertical Wind Turbine Concept, £4,978, Jun 2023 – Jul 2023.
12. Kapitaniak, M. & Terrero Gonzalez, A., Interface, Simulations of Offshore Vessel Charging System, £4,978, Jun 2023 – Jul 2023.
13. Kapitaniak, M., Martinez, R. & Neilson, R., T-Omega Wind Ltd., T-Omega Wind: Floating Wind Towing & Maintenance Feasibility Studies, £7,804, May – Jun 2022.
14. Kapitaniak, M., Costa, D. & Vaziri, V., iVDynamics Ltd., Resonance Enhanced Scale Milling Technology, £58,525, Jun 2022 – Aug 2023.
15. Kapitaniak, M. & Neilson, R., Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, Floating Wind: Optimisation, De-risking & Development, £90,000, Mar 2022 – Feb 2026.
16. Kapitaniak, M., Martinez, R. & Arnau, S., Energy Technology Partnership, ETP KEN: Optimization Of Towing Configuration For Floating Wind Farm Anchors, £9,480, Jan – Apr 2022.
17. Kapitaniak, M. & Neilson, R., Skua Marine Ltd., C-DART System Simulation, £ 6,715, Feb 2022.
18. Kapitaniak, M. & Neilson, R., EPSRC Supergen ORE Hub, Cost Effective Methods of Installing Offshore Wind Infrastructure, £ 99,935, Jun 2021 – Jul 2022.

As Co-Investigator:

1. Vaziri, V., Kapitaniak, M. & Wiercigroch, M., iVDynamics Ltd., Torque-Demand vs Drill-Bit and Milling Material Hardness Tests, £ 5,810, Jan 2026 – Apr 2026.
2. Martinez-Felipe, A., Kartal, M., Siddiq, A., Sharifi, A., Kapitaniak, M., Underhill, J., Varnagiris, S. & Urbonavičiusz, M., UK-HyRES (UKRI), MHYSTIC: New Materials and methods for HYdrogen transportation and STorage: repurposing the eConomy future of the North Sea, £ 232,478, Jan 2025 – Jul 2027.
3. Cauvin, S., Gormley, K., Stone, M., Kapitaniak, M. & Neilson, R., Chevron, Visualisation of Chevron Angola assets and potential reefing sites, £32,900, Aug 2024 – Nov 2024.
4. Sriramula, S. & Kapitaniak, M., Petroleum Technology Development Fund, Risk based inspection and management of offshore pipelines for energy transition, £65,064, Feb 2024 – Jan 2027.
5. Neilson, R., Stone, M., Kapitaniak, M., Maheri, A., Martinez-Felipe, A., Sriramula, S., Vaziri, V., Hastings, A., Gormley, K., Sripada, G., Leontidis, G., Paterson, J. & Kemp, A., Net Zero Technology Centre, Data for Net Zero, £992,000, Jun 2022-May 2025.
6. Vaziri, V., Kapitaniak, M. & Starkey, A., READ Cased Hole, Applying AI techniques to well integrity logging data (Phase 3), £ 298,865.00, Feb 2021 – Jan 2023.
7. Vaziri, V. & Kapitaniak, M., iVDynamics Ltd., Advanced shock tool, £ 80,665, Sep 2020 – Feb 2022.
8. Vaziri, V., Kapitaniak, M. & Starkey, A., READ Cased Hole, Applying AI techniques to well integrity logging data (Phase 2), £15,000, Jun – Aug 2020.
9. Wiercigroch, M., Vaziri, V. & Kapitaniak, M., Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC)/Welltec, Design and Test of Resonance Enhanced Scale Milling for Hard Scales (Phase 2), £402,579, Jul 2019 – Jun 2020.
10. Wiercigroch, M., Starkey, A., Vaziri, V. & Kapitaniak, M., Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC)/READ Cased Hole, Applying AI techniques to well integrity logging data, £166,737, Jul 2019 – Feb 2020.
11. Wiercigroch, M., Kapitaniak, M. & Vaziri, V., Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC)/VBPR, Experimental Testing of RED Technology for Coring Bit Applications, £31,854, Nov 2018 – Feb 2019.
12. Wiercigroch, M., Kapitaniak, M. & Vaziri, V., Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC)/Varel, Drilling: Hybrid Drill-Bits With Shearing and Gouging (PHASE 2), £395,567, Jun 2018 – Feb 2020.