Carsten Westergaard

Carsten H. Westergaard is the president and owner of Westergaard Solutions, Inc., a consulting company to renewable energy companies and suppliers developing new exciting new technologies and market approaches and a senior advisor to Sandia National Laboratories. Carsten has served in numerous advisory board positions and chaired international reviews of large multi-year government research programs in several countries. Carsten earned his Ph.D. from the Danish Technical University with a thesis on optical computing and laser based turbulent flow measurements. During his years as a student, he attended the University of Illinois and spent time at CERN in Switzerland and Baker Oil Tools in Houston. He has been holding a variety of management roles–including technology, sales, and marketing–working for LM Wind Power, Dantec Dynamics, Force Technology and Vestas Wind Systems in Denmark and the US. Recently, he also served as Professor of Practice at Texas Tech University, teaching and researching wind energy. During his career, he has published over 80 publications and 25 patents/pending.