President Dr Irfaan Ali on Sunday announced the appointment of Dr Andrzej Jasionowski, a forensic naval architecture and marine engineering expert, to sit on the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the MV Barima tragedy.

Guyana was plunged into mourning exactly a week ago when the vessel capsized at sea on its way to Port Kaituma, Region One (Barima-Waini) with 179 people on board. Thus far, 76 people have been rescued, 73 bodies recovered and 30 people remain missing.

Dr Jasionowski holds a PhD in damaged vessel hydrodynamics from the University of Strathclyde, UK, (2002). He has specialised since 1995 in the application of advanced numerical techniques for stability, hydrodynamics, oil film lubrication, thermodynamics of LNG mixtures, ship flooding simulations, probabilistic assessment of time to sink and capsize, holistic risk quantification, shaft alignment.

According to his CV, he routinely applies finite element method (FEM), Lagrange collocation (LC), boundary element (BEM) and NURBS collocation methods to forensics of collision, grounding, unsafe port, elasto- thermo- hydro- dynamics in assessment of design defects and complex cryogenic cargo operations.

He also advised on new building and other disputes regarding ship weight, fuel oil consumption, shaft alignment, stern tube (journal) bearing failures, cranes (slewing) bearing failures, structural integrity impairments, propulsion, stability, ship capacity, unsafe ports, LNG boil off and heat losses,

He is also an author, co-author, co-contributor to articles published in journals, conferences and books.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:

2023 ASIArb (Associate Member of Singapore Institute of Arbitrators)
2022 AMEWI (Associate Member of Expert Witness Institute)
2021 MBEWA (Member of Baltic Expert Witness Association)
2019 SLMAA (Supporting Member of London Maritime Arbitration Association)
2003 MRINA (Member of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects)
2003 CEng (Chartered Engineer, Member of Engineering Council UK)
2002 PhD, Ship and Marine Technology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
1997 MEng, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Technical University of
Gdansk, Poland

EXPERIENCE
2019 –
SophusQuorum Pte Ltd, Singapore
Director, Forensic Naval Architect
Expert witness services – air seal failures, stern tube bearings failures, crane
failures, slewing bearings, unsafe port, design defects, ship sinking, foundering,
groundings, site surveys, numerical modelling and simulations, FEM, LC and BEM,
model testing design and analyses, statistical analyses and risk quantifications,
decision support systems investigations, LNG boil off and conductive heat losses
analyses, surveys and site investigations, evidence in Arbitrations.

2018 – 2019
Braemar Technical Services (Adjusting) Pte Ltd, Singapore
Director, Forensic Naval Architect
Expert witness services (arbitrations), accident investigations (grounding,
foundering/sinking), design defects analyses, assist in emergency support on major
casualties, casualty surveys, unsafe port modelling and analyses.

2002 – 2017
Safety At Sea Ltd, Brookes Bell LLP, UK/Singapore
Partner, Director, Maria Skłodowska-Curie post-PhD Fellow
Accident investigation and litigation support (stability, hydrodynamic simulation,
quantitative ship vulnerability assessment, manoeuvring, collision, grounding), new-
building design support (stability
and survivability), stability
conversion
assessments,
automated
ballasting
systems
development,
deadweight
management optimisation for energy efficiency and regulatory compliance. New
building disputes regarding fuel oil consumption, shaft alignment and stern tube
bearing failures, structural integrity, propulsion and stability. Support of sea trials
and yard inspections. Resource management, project management.

1996 – 2011
University of Strathclyde, UK
Lecturer, and Technical Manager at the Ship Stability Research Centre, Academic
Visitor, Research Fellow, PhD Researcher
Resource management, project management, R&D consortia coordination,
developments in area of risk quantification, decision support, stability, legislation
amendments, numerical survivability and time to sink assessment, ship sinking
accident investigation (MV Derbyshire, MV Estonia), arbitration support (BAE
Systems), survivability simulation, evacuation, ship systems modelling, laboratory
ship stability testing.

1995 – 1996
MARINTEK, NTNU, Norway, Ship Design and Research Centre (CTO) Gdansk,
Poland
Researcher on ship hydrodynamics, seakeeping, resistance, motions in waves,
model testing.