Overview

Marc Mansuy works as a research staff for the Maritime Technology Division at Ghent University, Belgium. He graduated in 2014 with a Master of Science from ISAE-Supméca, a French mechanical engineering school and received additional ship technology background at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology as an exchange student. In 2012, he started working on projects related to ship hydrodynamics at Sintef in Norway. In 2014, he became a researcher at Flanders Hydraulics Research in Antwerp (Belgium). Since 2016, he holds the current position of research staff at the Maritime Technology division of Ghent University (Belgium). He has been involved over the past years in several studies dealing with inland waterways in France and Belgium (Nord-Pas-de-Calais waterways network, River Seine, Flemish waterways, Walloon waterways...). These studies consisted of identifying bottlenecks and how to tackle them using ship manoeuvring simulators (including navigation under bridges, turning manoeuvres and ship meetings in narrow channels). He is associated with the Knowledge Centre Manoeuvring in Shallow and Confined Water and he is a member of PIANC WG 237.

Research topics

• Inland Navigation
• Ship manoeuvring simulations
• Seakeeping
• Ship structure
• Experimental model tests in towing tank
• Ship hydrodynamic interactions (bank, bottom, other vessels, moored vessels)
• Ship manoeuvring

Publications

The full publication list can be found here

Scientific career

• October 2016 – present: Research Staff, Maritime Technology Division, Ghent University, Belgium
• October 2014 – september 2016: Researcher, Flanders Hydraulics, Belgium
• December 2012 – june 2014: Iternship / Engineer, Marintek (SINTEF OCEAN), Norway

Awards

• 2023 Best Presentation Award, TRANSNAV
• 2022 PIANC Young Professionals Award, SMART RIVERS

Memberships

• The World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure (PIANC)