• Doctoral studies - Department of Applied Mechanics, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, doctoral thesis topic: "Design method for safe ship structures"
• Graduate Engineer (M.Sc.) of Naval Architecture achieved at the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Engineering,1996-2002, Rijeka, Croatia

Alan is the co-founder of as2con and responsible for the overall running of the company. His technical experience ranges from structural design and analysis for various projects, e.g. forced vibration and noise analysis of passenger vessels, grounding of steel sandwich panels, conceptual studies involving design optimization and decision-making.

He is also involved in the development of certain engineering software, e.g. concurrent and collaborative ship design for integration of design software, for optimization of laser-welded sandwich panels.

Over the period 2001-2008, Alan worked as a research scientist at the Aalto University (previously The Helsinki University of Technology) having research, teaching and managerial duties. He was actively involved in the EU FP7 projects: De-LIGHT, SAND.CORe, SANDWICH, INTERMODESHIP, APPLYCRASH2.

List of publications can be viewed here.

• Professor at Department of Marine Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
• Doctoral and post-doc studies - Aalto University; Graduation with Distinction in the Field of Naval Architecture, Espoo, Finland
• Degree - Engineer for Mechanical Engineering, University of Rostock, Germany

Sören is the co-founder of as2con. As a chief scientist, he is collaborating on scientific projects and also mentoring students work. His areas of research ranges from field of assessment of the post-accidental deformations, vibrations analysis of ship and steel structures, fatigue analysis of maritime structures to multi-objective optimization of ships side structures, steel sandwich panels and steel sandwich panel joints.

Since August 2011, Sören is Professor at Department of Marine Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. Since 2004, Sören worked as a researcher at Aalto University (previously The Helsinki University of Technology) having research, teaching and managerial duties. His research focus is on: Material modelling, Ship collision and optimisation. Sören was actively involved in several EU FP7 projects: SANDWICH, SAND.CORe, ERASTAR, BEEST, MARSTRUCT, IMPROVE, ASDEPP.

List of publications can be viewed here.

• Pursuing a degree for Doctor of Science in Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Marine Technology, Trondheim, Norway
• Degree - Engineer for Mechanical Engineering, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Engineering, Croatia

Dražen has been on board with as2con since 2008 and in 2009 became a project manager. Since then he has worked extensively on the application of the Finite Element Method for solving strength, vibration and acoustic problems. So far, he has been involved in structural assessments of several ships, sandwich panel structures, composite patches and so on.

• Graduate Engineer (B.Sc.) of Naval Architecture achieved at the University of Zagreb, 1992-2001, Zagreb, Croatia.
•  2nd cycle Engineering graduation (M.Sc.) of Naval Architecture achieved at the University of Liege, 2003-2005, Liege, Belgium.

Darko has been on board with as2con since December, 2012. For the past few months, as a part of as2con`s and STX`s collaboration, he was working in STX`s shipyard in Turku, Finland as Hull classification engineer on TUI Cruises Mein Schiff 3 project. During his professional career he has been involved in Detail and Basic design of different ship types for several European shipyards and design consultancies namely Meyer werft, IHC Merwede, Ulstein Design, Rolls Royce Marine, Kraljevica shipyard , Kleven Maritime and Navis consult.