During his doctoral studies, he developed and validated control methods to mitigate wake effects in large offshore wind farms to improve power production. One of these methods was patented, which triggered his interest to become a patent attorney. Mees joined V.O. Patents & Trademarks in 2025.

Working experience

• Trainee Patent Attorney, V.O. (2025)
• PhD candidate, Delft University of Technology (2021-2025)

Education

• PhD in Systems and Control; Wind Farm Control, Delft University of Technology (2025)
• MSc in Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology (2021)
• BSc in Mechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology (2018)

Publications

• van Vondelen, A. A. W., Ottenheym, J., Kalogera, M., and van Wingerden, J. W. “Enhanced wind turbine wake mixing.” Netherlands Patent No. NL2035238B1, 9 Jan. 2025.
• van Vondelen, A. A. W., van der Hoek, D. C., Navalkar, S. T., van Wingerden, J. W. (2025). Experimental validation of synchronized Helix wake mixing control. Renewable Energy.
• van Vondelen, A. A. W., Coquelet, M., Navalkar, S. T., van Wingerden, J. W. (2025). Synchronized Helix wake mixing control. Wind Energy Science.
• Chen, Z., van Vondelen, A. A. W., van Wingerden, J. W. (2025). LiDAR-enhanced Closed-Loop Active Helix Approach. Wind Energy Science Discussions.
• Gutierrez Santiago, U., van Vondelen, A. A. W., Fernández Sisón, A., Polinder, H., van Wingerden, J.W. (2025). Identification of operational deflection shapes of a wind turbine gearbox using fiber-optic strain sensors on a serial production end-of-line test bench. Wind Energy Science.
• van Vondelen, A. A. W., Pamososuryo, A. K., Navalkar, S. T., van Wingerden, J. W. (2024). Control of periodically waked wind turbines. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.
  Coquelet, M., Lejeune, M., Bricteux, L., van Vondelen, A. A. W., van Wingerden, J.W., Chatelain, P. (2024). On the robustness of a blade-load-based wind speed estimator to dynamic pitch control strategies. Wind Energy Science.
• van Vondelen, A. A. W., Pamososuryo, A. K., Navalkar, S. T., van Wingerden, J. W. (2024). On the optimal azimuth offset for individual pitch control in aeroelastic code coupled with a high-fidelity flow solver. 2024 European Control Conference (ECC).
• van Vondelen, A. A. W., van der Hoek, D. C., Navalkar, S. T., van Wingerden, J. W. (2024). Synchronized dynamic induction control: An experimental investigation. Journal of Physics: Conference Series.
• van Vondelen, A. A. W., Ottenheym, J., Pamososuryo, A. K., Navalkar, S. T., van Wingerden, J.W. (2023). Phase synchronization for helix enhanced wake mixing in downstream wind turbines. IFAC-PapersOnLine.
• van Vondelen, A. A. W., Navalkar, S. T., Kerssemakers, D. R. H., van Wingerden, J.W. (2023). Enhanced wake mixing in wind farms using the Helix approach: A loads sensitivity study. 2023 American Control Conference (ACC).
• Taschner, E., van Vondelen, A. A. W., Verzijlbergh, R., van Wingerden, J. W. (2023). On the performance of the helix wind farm control approach in the conventionally neutral atmospheric boundary layer. Journal of Physics: Conference Series.
• van Vondelen, A. A. W., Iliopoulos, A., Navalkar, S. T., van der Hoek, D. C., van Wingerden, J.W. (2023). Modal analysis of an operational offshore wind turbine using enhanced Kalman filter‐based subspace identification. Wind Energy.
• van Vondelen, A. A. W., Navalkar, S. T., Iliopoulos, A., van der Hoek, D. C., van Wingerden, J.W. (2022). Damping identification of offshore wind turbines using operational modal analysis: a review. Wind Energy Science.

Languages

• Dutch
• English