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Staff Page • R&D Mechanical Engineer. Biography Damian Gallegos-Patterson joined Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power Technologies Program in 2022. Damian’s work focuses primarily on test coordination and analysis for wave energy converters (WECs). Damian received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering (2019) from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and a...

Staff Page • R&D, S&E, Mechanical Engineering. Biography Dr. Dan Houck joined Sandia National Laboratories in 2020 and is a member of the Wind Energy Design and Experimentation Department. His research supports experiments at the Scaled Wind Farm Test (SWiFT) facility, including the National Rotor Testbed. Much of his research focuses on the...

Staff Page • R&D Electrical Engineer. Biography Daniel Gaebele is a R&D electrical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power Technologies Program. His research focuses on wave energy converter (WEC) control co-design and control co-optimization, sociotechnical assessments of WECs for ocean-based industry applications, and WEC seasonal deployments. Daniel Gaebele received his bachelor’s and...

Staff Page • Research Engineer. Biography Daniel Riley is a research engineer in the Photovoltaics (PV) and Materials Technology Program at Sandia National Laboratories. The scope of Daniel’s work includes PV modules and systems with focus in data acquisition, characterization, and modeling. Daniel has also developed skills for characterizing and modeling non-standard PV...

Staff Page • Rotor Blade and Wind Plant Aerodynamics Lead. Biography Dr. David Maniaci is a principal member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories and is the rotor blade and wind plant aerodynamics lead in the Wind Energy Computational Sciences Department. He is currently leading efforts on the verification, validation and...

Staff Page • Electrical Engineer. Biography David Rosewater received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Montana Tech of the University of Montana, Butte, MT, USA, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. He currently works as a...

Staff Page • Principal Member, Technical Staff. Biography David Schoenwald is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in the Electric Power Systems Research Department at Sandia National Laboratories. Dr. Schoenwald focuses on control system design to improve dynamic stability of electric power systems. He also develops performance standards for grid-scale energy storage...