Charles Nutakor

D.Sc. (Tech.) Charles Nutakor is a postdoctoral researcher at LUT University, School of Energy Systems, Finland. His research focuses on powertrain dynamics, lubrication, machine elements, and mechanical vibration. He has worked extensively on efficiency and power-loss models for wind turbine gearboxes and integrated hub drives, as well as on the lubrication of heavily loaded contacts and the dynamic behaviour of high-speed electrical drives.

During his doctoral studies, Charles spent a year at The Ohio State University (OSU) in the USA as a visiting scholar, gaining international experience in advanced modelling techniques at the OSU Gear and Power Transmission Research Laboratory in Columbus. Following his PhD, he undertook a two-year postdoctoral appointment at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), contributing to the WhiteWind project (https://wind.dtu.dk/projects/research-projects/completed-projects/whitewind) at DTU Wind and Energy Systems, where he investigated multibody dynamic modelling of gears and rolling-element bearings. More recently, his academic engagements have included a research exchange at the Tribolab (https://www.ltu.se/en/research/research-subjects/machine-elements/tribo…) at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, and a visiting researcher position in the Mecha(tro)nic System Dynamics at KU Leuven, Belgium.

D.Sc. (Tech.) Charles Nutakor is a postdoctoral researcher at LUT University, School of Energy Systems, Finland. His research focuses on powertrain dynamics, lubrication, machine elements, and mechanical vibration. He has worked extensively on efficiency and power-loss models for wind turbine gearboxes and integrated hub drives, as well as on the lubrication of heavily loaded contacts and the dynamic behaviour of high-speed electrical drives.

During his doctoral studies, Charles spent a year at The Ohio State University (OSU) in the USA as a visiting scholar, gaining international experience in advanced modelling techniques at the OSU Gear and Power Transmission Research Laboratory in Columbus. Following his PhD, he undertook a two-year postdoctoral appointment at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), contributing to the WhiteWind project (https://wind.dtu.dk/projects/research-projects/completed-projects/whitewind) at DTU Wind and Energy Systems, where he investigated multibody dynamic modelling of gears and rolling-element bearings. More recently, his academic engagements have included a research exchange at Tribolab (https://www.ltu.se/en/research/research-subjects/machine-elements/tribo…) at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, and a visiting researcher position in the Mecha(tro)nic System Dynamics (https://www.mech.kuleuven.be/en/mod) group at KU Leuven, Belgium.