Karl Garme

Naval Architect, educated at KTH (T-90). PhD on modelling of planing craft in waves in 2004. Docent in Naval Architecture at KTH in 2019. Upper secondary school teacher’s exam (Maths and Technology) from Linköping University (2019) and studies in pedagogy for higher education at KTH, most recent courses; Learning for sustainable development and Gender Theory and Gender Equality in Technical Higher Education.

Teaches and supervises bachelor's, master's and doctoral students. Research and teaching have ship dynamics and seakeeping in common. The hull structure must withstand the wave loads that drive the ship’s motions, which in turn affect everything on board. The ship is on part of a technical system, the crew another key component. Research questions about hull loads and design accelerations have been studied through numerical models, model and full-scale experiments. Especially at high speed, the hull, equipment and crew are severely exposed. Currently, the crew's perspective is central and is explored by questionnaire studies, measurements of ship motions and the resulting motion and muscle activity in the people aboard. This shows that, especially shocks and vibrations, can affect health and how alert one is in the moment. The latter affects both system performance and safety at sea.

Naval Architecture is a broad field. Waterborne public transport and inland navigation have raised questions about what an energy-efficient commuter ferry capable for winter navigation looks like and how traffic simulation that includes all types of traffic modes, including boats and bicycles can be developed. Waterborne public transport is something completely different from fast ships in waves but with similarities in the system perspective and the important interaction between engineering and other arts.

In the Naval architecture education program I am responsible for the bachalor thesis course, the anuaI student conference at the Marine technology days and the MSc course Marine hydromechanics one of the core courses in the master's program Naval Architecture. A version of the course is designed for PhD-studetns, Seakeeping and Marine Dynamics.

Besides teaching and research I take part in related activities at and outside of KTH; the Swedish maritime competence centre Lighthouse, the Symposium on High Speed Marine Vehicles, and Stability R&D committee (SRDC), and as faculty represetative in the faculty board and docent committee at the school of engineering sciences.

I am division manager at the Department of Engineering Mechanics with the research groups MoveAbility, Naval Architecture | KTH and Aero&Space Technology.