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Authors & Contributors

Folkesson Gröndahl Dukan Konowe Laursen

Moniz Strachan Stenius Spinrad Torroba

Dukan Konowe Strachan

Fredrik Dukan is the co-founder and Celia Konowe is originally from Reston, David R. Strachan is a defense analyst

CEO of Norwegian Subsea, a leading VA and earned her bachelor’s degree and founder of Strikepod Systems, a provider of marine and subsea motion in environmental studies from the research and strategic advisory focusing sensors. Passionate about marine University of Rochester. She also has on autonomous undersea systems.

technology, control engineering, studied in France and Ecuador and navigation, motion control systems, and currently lives in Halifax, N.S., recently

Stenius entrepreneurship, Fredrik co-founded completing her master of environmental

Ivan Stenius is Associate Professor the company in 2014, serving as CTO studies at Dalhousie University.

at KTH. He leads research in naval until 2019 before stepping into his architecture, maritime robotics, and current role as CEO.

hydrofoiling technologies. Has pioneered

Laursen autonomous underwater technology at

Wendy Laursen has 20+ years of

Folkesson

KTH and been responsible for building experience as a journalist. In that time, she

John Folkesson is an Associate up the Swedish Maritime Robotics has written news and features for a range

Professor at KTH with a background Centre (SMaRC) for exploration and of maritime, engineering and science from Physics, RF Engineering, Computer environmental monitoring.

publications. She has completed a Master

Science and Robotics. He has been of Science research degree in marine involved with Autonomous Underwater

Spinrad ecology as well as diplomas in journalism,

Vehicles for 20 years. His research communication and subediting. Rick Spinrad, Ph.D., was NOAA focuses on navigation and perception in

Administrator from 2021-2025.

underwater environments.

Moniz

Torroba

Rhonda J. Moniz is host of MTR’s DEEP DIVE

Gröndahl

Ignacio Torroba is Postdoctoral podcast. She is an underwater forensics

Fredrik Gröndahl Associate Professor researcher at the divisions of Robotics, expert specializing in diving technologies at KTH with a background from

Perception and Learning and the Centre and subsea systems. She has more than

Oceanography and Marine Biology. for Naval Architecture at KTH. His current 25 years of experience as a ROV pilot,

Working with seafood with focus on research interests include autonomous master dive instructor, scienti? c diver, and seaweeds and kelp. Also one of the navigation and state estimation methods dive safety of? cer. She is the president of founders of the seaweed company for localization and mapping for the board of directors for the Northeastern

Nordic Seafarm and also the Director underwater vehicles.

Regional Association of Coastal Ocean of the Blue Food Centre at KTH.

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