Ingrid Bouwer Utne

Biography

Ingrid Bouwer Utne earned a 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 as Operations Officer (operasjonsbefal) onboard two frigates (KNM Narvik/Stavanger). Among other things, she signed contract with NATO’s Immediate Reaction Force (IRF) and was deployed three months with Standing Naval Force Atlantic (STANAVFORLANT). From 2004-2009 she was a Research Fellow/PhD-student at SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, a Research Scientist at SINTEF Safety Research, and a Post Doctoral Fellow in the RAMS group at NTNU. In 2009 she entered a Qualification Fellowship/Professorship of marine operation and maintenance at NTNU (full Professorship from July 2011). In addition, she worked part time as a Researcher on production efficiency/integrated operations in Statoil ASA. In 2010 Utne was a visiting scholar (6 months) 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. The DHSG served as advisor to the US Presidential Commission, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, and the public on issues related to the Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. From 2012-2013 she was the Head of the Marine Systems Research Group at NTNU, and from 2014 she is head of the PhD-program at the Department. Utne has co-authored the book “Risk analysis. Theory and methods” (2009) (In Norwegian), co-edited the book “Risk and interdependencies in critical infrastructures. A guide for analysis” (2012), and published more than 70 scientific articles on risk analysis, safety indicators, system safety engineering, maintenance, and sustainability analyses related to offshore oil and gas installations, offshore wind turbines, fisheries and aquaculture. She is an affiliated researcher in Centre of Excellence (CoE) Autonomous Marine Operation and Systems (AMOS).

Research Interest

System safety engineering (systems engineering), risk assessement, and maintenance management of marine systems.