45 minutes of your experience. Three years of research aimed at your problem.
Before I lock the models, I'm interviewing the people who live with the standardize-or-customize decision: yards, developers, consultancies, ports. Tell me where that decision actually hurts. It sets the research agenda — and you see every result before publication.
Three steps, each optional after the first
Express interest
The form below. Who you are, which perspective you bring, what you would want out of it. No commitment implied.
A needs-study interview
On your calendar, online or on site. What decisions you face, where current methods fail, what evidence would change your call. Anonymized by default, under NTNU research-ethics procedures.
Deeper collaboration — if it fits
Anonymized data under an NTNU research agreement, helping define a case study, or a seat on the review panel that judges the results. Each is optional and separately agreed.
What participants get
You shape what gets built
The interviews steer the research directly: which substructure types, which portfolio shapes, which cost questions get answered first. Participants set that agenda.
You see results first
Findings go to participants as they mature — steel penalties, standardization scenarios, cost results — ahead of publication.
Open by design
Methods and code are published openly. What the research produces, you can use — no license, no lock-in, nothing for sale.
Anonymity, guaranteed in writing
Interviews are anonymized by default; data is aggregated before publication under NTNU research data agreements. Organisations are named only with written consent.
Two minutes now, 45 minutes when it suits you
Registering interest commits you to nothing. You get a concrete proposal — interview topics, anonymity terms, scheduling — and decide then.
You'll talk to me: Evgeny Ramenskiy, PhD candidate at NTNU's Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Interviews run under NTNU research-ethics procedures — informed consent, anonymization by default, the right to withdraw at any time.