Margot Geertrui Gerritsen is a professor of Energy Resources Engineering at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is conside ...

and a senior associate dean for educational initiatives in the

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. Her research interests include energy production, ocean dynamics, and sailboat design. Gerritsen was born in the

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. She earned a master's degree at

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. She completed her doctorate in 1996 in

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and

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at Stanford, under the supervision of Joseph Oliger. Between 1996-2001, she was a faculty member in the Department of Engineering Science in Auckland, New Zealand. Gerritsen then worked at the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

before rejoining Stanford as a faculty member in 2001. She was named a

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in 2018.

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