About
Ingrid Bouwer Utne earned a PhD degree in Safety, Reliability, and Maintenance at NTNU in 2007. In 1995-1997 Utne attended the Officer Candidate School in the Norwegian Navy and worked as Operations Officer (operasjonsbefal) onboard two frigates (KNM Narvik/Stavanger). Among other things, she signed contract with NATO’s Immediate Reaction Force (IRF) and was deployed three months with Standing Naval Force Atlantic (STANAVFORLANT). From 2004-2009, she was a Research Fellow/PhD-student at SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture (now SINTEF Ocean), a Research Scientist at SINTEF Safety Research, and a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the RAMS group at NTNU. In 2009, she entered a Qualification Fellowship of marine operation and maintenance at NTNU (full Professorship from July 2011). In addition, she worked part time as a Researcher on production efficiency/integrated operations in Statoil ASA (now Equinor). In 2010, Utne was a visiting scholar (6 months) in the Ocean Engineering Group at University of California, Berkeley, where she became a member of the Deepwater Horizon Study Group (DHSG) at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management. The DHSG served as advisor to the US Presidential Commission, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, and the public on issues related to the Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. From 2012-2013 she was the Head of the Marine Systems Research Group at NTNU, and from 2014 to July 2017 she was Deputy Head at the Department of Marine Technology, Research. Currently, she is an employee representative of the NTNU Board (2021->). Utne has published more than 180 scientific articles on risk assessment, supervisory risk control, safety indicators, system safety, maintenance, and sustainability analyses related to autonomy, ships and marine systems, offshore oil and gas installations, fisheries, and aquaculture. She has been an affiliated Researcher in Centre of Excellence (CoE) Autonomous Marine Operation and Systems (NTNU AMOS), and currently, her main research work focuses on supervisory risk control of autonomous systems.
