Margot Geertrui Gerritsen is a professor of Energy Resources Engineering at

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and a senior associate dean for educational initiatives in the Stanford University School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences. 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

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

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in 2018.

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