Ingrid Bouwer Utne,
Professor NTNU, Dept. of Marine Technology
Ingrid Bouwer Utne is a Professor of Marine Operation and Maintenance Engineering at Department of Marine Technology, NTNU.
Utne earned her PhD degree in Safety, Reliability, and Maintenance at NTNU in 2007.
In 1995-1997 Utne attended the Officer Candidate School in the Norwegian Navy and worked onboard two frigates. Utne has worked as a Research Fellow in SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture and as a Research Scientist in SINTEF Safety Research. She has also worked part time as a Researcher on production efficiency/integrated operations in Statoil ASA.
From June-December 2010 Utne was a Visiting Scholar in the Ocean Engineering Group at University of California, Berkeley, where she became a member of the Deepwater Horizon Study Group (DHSG) at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, working on issues related to the Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.
Utne has co-authored the book “Risk analysis. Theory and methods” (2009) (In Norwegian) and published more than 35 scientific articles on risk assessment, safety indicators, system safety engineering, and environmental analyses related to offshore oil and gas installations, offshore wind turbines, fisheries, and aquaculture.