Stillingsbeskrivelse

Dr. Geanette Polanco currently serves as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Industrial Technology (IIT) at UiT. She actively contributes to various campus initiatives, including participation in the resource group for the Levende Campus project, as well as Åpen Dag, Grønndag, and Forskningsdager. Dr. Polanco earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela and subsequently completed her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, specializing in Computational Fluid Dynamics, at Coventry University in the United Kingdom. She later pursued a postdoctoral research fellowship at Høgskole i Narvik, Norway, focusing on wind turbine operations under icing conditions.

At UiT, Dr. Polanco has been deeply involved in both teaching and research activities, fostering academic collaboration and promoting the dissemination of knowledge. She has established a broad international network with researchers and educators from countries such as Poland, Lithuania, the United States, China, Sweden, Finland, and Mexico. Furthermore, she serves on the review committees of several academic journals, including Cold Regions Science and Technology and the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries.