Dr Nataliia Sergiienko

Senior Lecturer

School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

My Research
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Ocean Wave Energy

coastline protection using wave energy converters
hydrodynamic modelling of ocean wave energy converters
control of multi-degree-of-freedom WECs
layout optimisation of a wave farm

Offshore Wind Energy

hybrid wave-wind platforms
dynamics and control of floating offshore wind turbines
scaling up floating offshore wind platforms

Honours/Masters Projects

Aerospace			Co-supervision
2023	UAV with a distributed propulsion system	6 students	Harry Rowton
2021	Lunar crate exploration	4 students	A/Prof Rini Akmeliawati
2020	Drone for weed control	6 students	A/Prof Rini Akmeliawati
2020	Design, build and test a dual-fuel turbine engine	1 student
2020	Design and build a perching UAV	6 students	Prof Maziar Arjomandi
2019	Design, build and test a CubeSat	6 students	Prof Maziar Arjomandi
Robotics
2020	Robotic vulnerable road user platform	4 students	Andrew van den Berg
2020	Active kangaroo target	3 students	Dr David Harvey Andrew van den Berg
Renewables
2023	Floating offshore wind turbine	1 student
2023	Hybrid wind-wave energy system	2 students
2023	Controlling coastal erosion with wave energy	4 students	Prof Ben Cazzolato
2022	Controlling coastal erosion with wave energy	6 students	Prof Ben Cazzolato
2021	Offshore wind turbine control	6 students	Prof Maziar Arjomandi
2020	Design, build and test a floating wind turbine	1 student	Leandro Souza Pinheiro da Silva
2019	Automatic alignment of a heliostat	2 students	Prof Ben Cazzolato
2017	Surging and pitching wave energy converters	1 student	Prof Ben Cazzolato
2016	Heaving buoy wave energy converter	3 students	Prof Ben Cazzolato

Appointments

Date	Position	Institution name
2023 - ongoing	Senior Lecturer	University of Adelaide
2019 - 2022	Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering	University of Adelaide
2016 - 2016	Casual tutor - Advanced PID Control	University of Adelaide
2015 - 2017	Casual tutor - Dynamics and Control II (Auto Control II)	University of Adelaide
2014 - 2016	Casual tutor - Engineering Mechanics (Dynamics)	University of Adelaide
2007 - 2012	Modelling, Simulation and Analysis Engineer	Innalabs Ltd

Language Competencies

Language Competency
English Can peer review
Russian Can peer review
Ukrainian Can peer review

Language	Competency
English	Can peer review
Russian	Can peer review
Ukrainian	Can peer review

Education

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
2014 - 2018	University of Adelaide, Adelaide	Australia	PhD in Mechanical Engineering
2005 - 2007	National Technical University of Ukraine 'KPI'	Ukraine	Master of Engineering (Control Systems for Aerospace Vehicles)
2001 - 2005	National Technical University of Ukraine 'KPI'	Ukraine	Bachelor of Engineering (Aerospace)

Journals

Year	Citation
2023	da Silva, L. S. P., Pesce, C. P., de Oliveira, M., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B., & Ding, B. (2023). Stochastic analysis of the nonlinear dynamics of oscillating water columns: A frequency domain approach. Applied Ocean Research, 139, 103711. DOI
2023	Cui, L., Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Leontini, J., Tothova, D., Cannard, P., . . . Manasseh, R. (2023). On using Helmholtz-type resonance to reduce the size of dual-purpose offshore oscillating water column wave energy converters. Physics of Fluids, 35(9). DOI
2023	Meng, F., Sergiienko, N., Ding, B., Zhou, B., Silva, L. S. P. D., Cazzolato, B., & Li, Y. (2023). Co-located offshore wind–wave energy systems: Can motion suppression and reliable power generation be achieved simultaneously?. Applied Energy, 331, 12 pages. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2022	Sergiienko, N. Y., Bacelli, G., Coe, R. G., & Cazzolato, B. S. (2022). A comparison of efficiency-aware model-predictive control approaches for wave energy devices. Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, 8(1), 17-29. DOI Scopus2
2022	Neshat, M., Mirjalili, S., Sergiienko, N. Y., Esmaeilzadeh, S., Amini, E., Heydari, A., & Garcia, D. A. (2022). Layout optimisation of offshore wave energy converters using a novel multi-swarm cooperative algorithm with backtracking strategy: A case study from coasts of Australia. Energy, 239, 1-29. DOI Scopus19 WoS17
2022	Meng, F., Ding, B., Sergiienko, N. Y., Chen, H., Xu, H., & Li, Y. (2022). Power set-point tracking of a point absorber with multiple power take-off units in irregular waves. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 13(2), 767-777. DOI Scopus4 WoS3
2022	Schubert, B. W., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., Robertson, W. S. P., & Ghayesh, M. H. (2022). The true potential of nonlinear stiffness for point absorbing wave energy converters. Ocean Engineering, 245, 12 pages. DOI Scopus8 WoS7
2022	Tran, N., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., Ghayesh, M. H., & Arjomandi, M. (2022). Design considerations for a three-tethered point absorber wave energy converter with nonlinear coupling between hydrodynamic modes. Ocean Engineering, 254, 1-15. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2022	Sergiienko, N. Y., da Silva, L. S. P., Bachynski-Polić, E. E., Cazzolato, B. S., Arjomandi, M., & Ding, B. (2022). Review of scaling laws applied to floating offshore wind turbines. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 162, 13 pages. DOI Scopus8 WoS7
2022	Schubert, B. W., Robertson, W. S. P., Cazzolato, B. S., Sergiienko, N. Y., & Ghayesh, M. H. (2022). Nonlinear stiffness enhancement of submerged wave energy device in high fidelity model. Ocean Engineering, 254, 1-18. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2022	Gao, Q., Khan, S. S., Sergiienko, N., Ertugrul, N., Hemer, M., Negnevitsky, M., & Ding, B. (2022). Assessment of wind and wave power characteristic and potential for hybrid exploration in Australia. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 168, 15 pages. DOI Scopus6 WoS3
2022	Neshat, M., Nezhad, M. M., Sergiienko, N. Y., Mirjalili, S., Piras, G., & Garcia, D. A. (2022). Wave power forecasting using an effective decomposition-based convolutional Bi-directional model with equilibrium Nelder-Mead optimiser. Energy, 256, 1-16. DOI Scopus10 WoS2
2022	da Silva, L. S. P., de Oliveira, M., Cazzolato, B., Sergiienko, N., Amaral, G. A., & Ding, B. (2022). Statistical linearisation of a nonlinear floating offshore wind turbine under random waves and winds. Ocean Engineering, 261, 15 pages. DOI Scopus3 WoS1
2022	da Silva, L. S. P., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B., & Ding, B. (2022). Dynamics of hybrid offshore renewable energy platforms: Heaving point absorbers connected to a semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine. Renewable Energy, 199, 1424-1439. DOI Scopus6 WoS1
2021	Tran, N., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., Ding, B., Wuillaume, P. -Y., Ghayesh, M. H., & Arjomandi, M. (2021). On the importance of nonlinear hydrodynamics and resonance frequencies on power production in multi-mode WECs. Applied Ocean Research, 117, 1-14. DOI Scopus5 WoS5
2021	Skene, D. M., Sergiienko, N., Ding, B., & Cazzolato, B. (2021). The prospect of combining a point absorber wave energy converter with a floating offshore wind turbine. Energies, 14(21), 7385-1-7385-24. DOI Scopus5 WoS4
2021	Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L., Cazzolato, B. S., Sergiienko, N., & Ding, B. (2021). Efficient estimation of the nonlinear aerodynamic loads of floating offshore wind turbines under random waves and wind in frequency domain. Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, 7(3), 287-303. DOI Scopus6
2021	Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L., Cazzolato, B., Sergiienko, N., & Ding, B. (2021). Nonlinear Dynamics of a Floating OffshoreWind Turbine Platform via Statistical Quadratization - Mooring, Wave and Current In-teraction. Ocean Engineering, 236, 1-13. DOI Scopus10 WoS6
2021	Sergiienko, N. Y., da Silva, L. S. P., Ding, B., & Cazzolato, B. S. (2021). Importance of drivetrain optimisation to maximise electrical power from wave energy converters. IET Renewable Power Generation, 15(14), 11 pages. DOI Scopus6 WoS5
2021	Neshat, M., Sergiienko, N. Y., Mirjalili, S., Nezhad, M. M., Piras, G., & Garcia, D. A. (2021). Multi-mode wave energy converter design optimisation using an improved moth flame optimisation algorithm. Energies, 14(13), 1-17. DOI Scopus12 WoS9
2021	Gu, Y., Ding, B., Sergiienko, N. Y., & Cazzolato, B. S. (2021). Power maximising control of a heaving point absorber wave energy converter. IET Renewable Power Generation, 15(14), 3296-3308. DOI Scopus5 WoS4
2021	Sergiienko, N. Y., Cocho, M., Cazzolato, B. S., & Pichard, A. (2021). Effect of a model predictive control on the design of a power take-off system for wave energy converters. Applied Ocean Research, 115, 12 pages. DOI Scopus6 WoS4
2020	Neshat, M., Alexander, B., Sergiienko, N. Y., & Wagner, M. (2020). New insights into position optimization of wave energy converters using hybrid local search. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 59, 100744-1-100744-18. DOI Scopus17 WoS14
2020	Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L., Cazzolato, B., Sergiienko, N., Ding, B., Morishita, H., & Pesce, C. (2020). Statistical linearization of the Morison’s equation applied to wave energy converters. Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, 6(2), 157-169. DOI Scopus13
2020	Schubert, B. W., Robertson, W. S. P., Cazzolato, B. S., Ghayesh, M. H., & Sergiienko, N. Y. (2020). Performance enhancement of submerged wave energy device using bistability. Ocean Engineering, 213, 14 pages. DOI Scopus14 WoS13
2020	Tran, N., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., Ding, B., Ghayesh, M. H., & Arjomandi, M. (2020). The impact of pitch-surge coupling on the performance of a submerged cylindrical wave energy converter. Applied Ocean Research, 104, 1-17. DOI Scopus5 WoS4
2020	Neshat, M., Sergiienko, N. Y., Amini, E., Nezhad, M. M., Garcia, D. A., Alexander, B., & Wagner, M. (2020). A new bi-level optimisation framework for optimising a multi-modewave energy converter design: A case study for the marettimo island, mediterranean sea. Energies, 13(20), 5498. DOI Scopus17 WoS16
2020	Silva, L. S. P., Sergiienko, N. Y., Pesce, C. P., Ding, B., Cazzolato, B., & Morishita, H. M. (2020). Stochastic analysis of nonlinear wave energy converters via statistical linearization. Applied Ocean Research, 95, 15 pages. DOI Scopus28 WoS12
2019	Meng, F., Cazzolato, B., Li, Y., Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., & Arjomandi, M. (2019). A sensitivity study on the effect of mass distribution of a single-tether spherical point absorber. Renewable Energy, 141, 583-595. DOI Scopus12 WoS9
2019	Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Arjomandi, M., Ding, B., & Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L. (2019). Considerations on the control design for a three-tether wave energy converter. Ocean Engineering, 183, 469-477. DOI Scopus17 WoS12
2019	Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., Meng, F., Cazzolato, B., Hardy, P., & Arjomandi, M. (2019). The application of modal analysis to the design of multi-mode point absorber wave energy converters. Ocean Engineering, 171, 603-618. DOI Scopus16 WoS9
2018	Sergiienko, N., Rafiee, A., Cazzolato, B., Ding, B., & Arjomandi, M. (2018). Feasibility study of the three-tether axisymmetric wave energy converter. Ocean Engineering, 150, 221-233. DOI Scopus40 WoS32
2017	Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Ding, B., Hardy, P., & Arjomandi, M. (2017). Performance comparison of the floating and fully submerged quasi-point absorber wave energy converters. Renewable Energy, 108, 425-437. DOI Scopus56 WoS46
2016	Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Ding, B., & Arjomandi, M. (2016). An optimal arrangement of mooring lines for the three-tether submerged point-absorbing wave energy converter. Renewable Energy, 93, 27-37. DOI Scopus33 WoS22

Book Chapters

Year	Citation
2022	da Silva, L. S. P., Ding, B., Guo, B., & Sergiienko, N. Y. (2022). Wave energy converter modelling, control, and power take-off design. In D. Ning, & B. Ding (Eds.), Modelling and Optimisation of Wave Energy Converters (pp. 97-128). Online: CRC Press. DOI Scopus2
2022	Sergiienko, N. Y., & Ding, B. (2022). Multi-mode wave energy converters. In D. Ning, & B. Ding (Eds.), Modelling and Optimisation of Wave Energy Converters (1 ed., pp. 169-200). Online: CRC Press. DOI
2022	Mayon, R., Ning, D., Ding, B., & Sergiienko, N. Y. (2022). Wave energy converter systems - status and perspectives. In D. Ning, & B. Ding (Eds.), Modelling and Optimisation of Wave Energy Converters (pp. 3-58). Online: CRC Press. DOI Scopus1

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
2021	Skene, D. M., Sergiienko, N., Ding, B., & Cazzolato, B. (2021). The potential for combining floating wind turbines with point absorbing wave energy converters. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE Vol. 9 (pp. 10 pages). virtual online: American Society of Mechanical Engineers. DOI
2020	Tran, N., Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Ghayesh, M., & Arjomandi, M. (2020). The effect of nonlinear pitch-surge coupling on the performance of multi-dof submerged wecs. In Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference Vol. 2020-October (pp. 144-151). online: ISOPE. Scopus1
2020	Sergiienko, N. Y., Neshat, M., Silva, L. S. P. D., Alexander, B., & Wagner, M. (2020). Design optimisation of a multi-mode wave energy converter. In Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2020) Vol. 9 (pp. 1-11). Online: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). DOI Scopus13
2020	Neshat, M., Alexander, B., Sergiienko, N. Y., & Wagner, M. (2020). Optimisation of large wave farms using a multi-strategy evolutionary framework. In Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'20) Vol. abs/2003.09594 (pp. 1150-1158). New York: Association for Computing Machinery. DOI Scopus11 WoS10
2020	Gu, Y., Ding, B., & Sergiienko, N. Y. (2020). Power maximising control of heaving point absorber wave energy converters using quadratic damping force. In 14th ISOPE Pacific/Asia Offshore Mechanics Symposium, PACOMS 2020 (pp. 330-334). online: ISOPE. Scopus1
2020	Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., Ding, B., Pesce, C. P., & Morishita, H. M. (2020). Nonlinear analysis of an oscillating wave surge converter in frequency domain via statistical linearizatio. In Proceedings of the 2020 39th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE Vol. 9. online: ASME. DOI Scopus3
2019	Ding, B., Wuillaume, P. -Y., Meng, F., Babarit, A., Schubert, B., Sergiienko, N., & Cazzolato, B. (2019). Comparison of wave-body interaction modelling methods for the study of reactively controlled point absorber wave energy converter. In The 34th International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies (pp. 1-4). online: CARMA.
2019	Neshat, M., Alexander, B., Sergiienko, N., & Wagner, M. (2019). A hybrid evolutionary algorithm framework for optimising power take off and placements of wave energy converters. In GECCO '19 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Vol. abs/1904.07043 (pp. 1293-1301). New York: ACM. DOI Scopus15 WoS14
2018	Howard, C., Sergiienko, N., & Gallasch, G. (2018). Monitoring the age of vehicle shock absorbers. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Science and Innovation for Land Power 2018 (ICSILP 2018) (pp. 1-4). Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia: DST Group.
2018	Arbonès, D., Sergiienko, N., Ding, B., Krause, O., Igel, C., & Wagner, M. (2018). Sparse incomplete LU-decomposition for wave farm designs under realistic conditions. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Vol. 11101 (pp. 512-524). Coimbra, Portugal: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG. DOI Scopus5 WoS4
2018	Schubert, B., Meng, F., Sergiienko, N., Robertson, W., Cazzolato, B., Ghayesh, M., . . . Arjomandi, M. (2018). Pseudo-nonlinear hydrodynamic coefficients for modelling point absorber wave energy converters. In Proceedings of the 4th Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (AWTEC 2018) (pp. 1-10). online: AWTEC.
2018	Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., Meng, F., Cazzolato, B., Hardy, P., & Arjomandi, M. (2018). Enhancing the relative capture width of submerged point absorbing wave energy converters. In Proceedings of the 4th Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference: AWTEC 2018 (pp. 1-10). online: AWTEC.
2017	Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., Bleckly, B., Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L., Cazzolato, B., & Arjomandi, M. (2017). Power-take-off control in a scaled experiment of a point absorber wave energy converter. In T. Lewis (Ed.), Proceeding of the 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC 2017) (pp. 1-7). Cork, Ireland: EWTEC.
2017	Meng, F., Rafiee, A., Cazzolato, B., Arjomandi, M., Ding, B., Piper, J., . . . Qiuhao, H. (2017). Numerical simulation of a submerged spherical point absorber with asymmetric mass distribution. In T. Lewis (Ed.), Proceedings of 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference 2017. Cork, Ireland: EWTEC.
2017	Ding, B., da Silva, L., Sergiienko, N., Meng, F., Piper, J., Bennetts, L., . . . Arjomandi, M. (2017). Study of fully submerged point absorber wave energy converter - modelling, simulation and scaled experiment. In Proceedings of the 32nd International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies (IWWWFB) (pp. 1-4). Dalian, China: IWWWFB.
2017	Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Hardy, P., Arjomandi, M., & Ding, B. (2017). Internal-model-based velocity tracking control of a submerged three-tether wave energy converter. In Proceeding of the 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (pp. 1126-1-1126-8). Cork, Ireland: EWTEC.
2016	Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., Meng, F., Cazzolato, B., Arjomandi, M., & Hardy, P. (2016). Enhancing the relative capture width of submerged point absorbers. In 1st Indo-Australian Marine Renewable Energy Workshop. Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
2016	Wu, J., Shekh, S., Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Ding, B., Neumann, F., & Wagner, M. (2016). Fast and effective optimisation of arrays of submerged wave energy converters. In Proceedings of the 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 1045-1052). Denver, CO: Association for Computing Machinery. DOI Scopus23 WoS20
2016	Arbonès, D., Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., & Wagner, M. (2016). Fast and effective multi-objective optimisation of submerged wave energy converters. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature Vol. 9921 (pp. 675-685). Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Springer. DOI Scopus9 WoS6
2016	Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., DIng, B., & Arjomandi, M. (2016). Three-tether axisymmetric wave energy converter: estimation of energy delivery. In Proceedings of the 3rd Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (AWTEC 2016) Vol. 1 (pp. 163-171). Marina Bay Sands, Singapore: Research Publishing Services. DOI
2015	Sergiienko, N., & Chen, L. (2015). Adaptive head stabilisation system for a snake-like robot. In Proceedings of Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2014 Vol. 02-04-December-2014 (pp. 1-7). Melbourne, Australia: Australian Robotics and Automation Association Inc.. Scopus3

Conference Items

Year	Citation
2019	Sergiienko, N., & Arjomandi, M. (2019). CubeSat as a tool for training engineers of the future. Poster session presented at the meeting of Collection of abstracts from the 19th Australian Space Research Conference. Adelaide.
2016	Sergiienko, N., Ding, B., Cazzolato, B., & Arjomandi, M. (2016). Performance comparison of the floating and fully submerged point absorber wave energy converters. Poster session presented at the meeting of General Information and programme including abstracts and biographies of Australian Ocean Renewable Energy Symposium. Melbourne: CSIRO.
2015	Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., & Ding, B. (2015). An optimal arrangement of mooring lines for the three-tether submerged point-absorbing wave energy converter. Poster session presented at the meeting of Program: KOZWaves 2015: The 2nd Australasian Conference on Wave Science. Adelaide: Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute.

Year	Award		Funding
2020	Best Paper Award (Real World Application)	GECCO 2020
2019	Women’s Research Excellence Award	The University of Adelaide	$5,000
2019	SA Fresh Scientist
2019	Best Paper Award (Real World Application)	GECCO 2019
2018	Dean's Commendation For Doctoral Thesis Excellence	The University of Adelaide
2017	Best Research Quality in Control	Centre for Energy Technology
2014	Australian Postgraduate Award	The University of Adelaide
2005	Ukraine Parliament Scholarship
2004	The Pavlovsky Scholarship	National Technical University of Ukraine
2003	The Kyiv Mayor Scholarship for Gifted Youth

Grants:

Years	Grant title	Scheme	Amount awarded
2023	Developing a deployment-ready robust controller for wave energy converters	ARC Early Career Industry Fellowship	$448,887
2022	Wave gauge system for measuring wave height in a wave flume or tank	The University of Adelaide Small Equipment Support Scheme	$7,500
2021	Advanced Control: The fast-track to commercialisation of wave energy converters	Access to Pawsey Supercomputers – Energy and Resources Merit Allocation Scheme	750,000 core hours
2020	Advanced Control: The fast-track to commercialisation of wave energy converters	Access to Pawsey Supercomputers – Energy and Resources Merit Allocation Scheme	250,000 core hours
2020	Ultra-fine Attitude Control via Event-based Star Tracking and Piezoelectric Stabilisation	SmartSat CRC	$600,000
2020	Adaptive Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography for Multiphase Flows	ARC LIEF	$760,000

Date	Position	Institution	Subject
2021, 2023	Project advisor	The University of Adelaide	Research Methods & Project Management
2019 - 2020, 2023	Course coordinator, Lecturer	The University of Adelaide	Space Vehicle Design
2019 - 2020	Course coordinator, Lecturer	The University of Adelaide	Advanced Topics in Aerospace Engineering
2016 - 2018	Teaching assistant	The University of Adelaide	Advanced PID Control
2015 - 2016	Teaching assistant, invited lecturer	The University of Adelaide	Dynamics and Control II (Auto Control II)
2014 - 2016	Teaching assistant	The University of Adelaide	Engineering Mechanics (Dynamics)

Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2022	Co-Supervisor	Mathematical Theory of Controlling Coastlines While Generating Power	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Amy-Rose Westcott
2021	Co-Supervisor	Robust Power-Maximising Control of Wave Energy Converters	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Yifeng Gu

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2019 - 2021	Co-Supervisor	Performance Enhancement of Submerged Ocean Wave Energy Converter using Nonlinear Stiffness	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Benjamin Wilhelm Schubert
2019 - 2023	Co-Supervisor	Stochastic Analysis of Marine Renewable Energy Devices: Wave, Wind, and Hybrid Systems	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Leandro da Silva
2018 - 2022	Co-Supervisor	The impact of hydrodynamic coupling on the performance of multi-mode wave energy converters	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Miss Ngan Bich Dinh Tran

Committee Memberships

Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
2022 - 2023	Member	Technical programme committee	The 19th International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems	Australia
2021 - ongoing	Advisory Board Member	The Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith Fund - Advisory Committee	The Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith Fund	Australia

Presentation

Date	Topic	Presented at	Institution	Country
2023 - 2023	Academic promotion	Academic Women's Forum	University of Adelaide	Australia
2022 - 2022	Trends, Challenges, and Future Perspectives for Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Development	-	Blue Economy CRC	Australia

Position: Senior Lecturer
Phone: 83136465
Email: nataliia.sergiienko@adelaide.edu.au
Fax: 83134367
Campus: North Terrace
Building: Engineering South, floor 2
Org Unit: Mechanical Engineering