Matthew (Matt) Hall is a principal engineer at NLR focused on improving the design of floating wind energy systems. He leads the floating array design research portfolio and supports efforts across floating system modeling, testing, and design optimization. Hall’s 15 years of experience in floating wind research includes early work on support structure optimization methods, the mooring dynamics model MoorDyn, shared mooring systems, and hybrid model testing in wave basins. In addition to current NLR projects, Hall leads International Energy Agency Wind Technology Collaboration Programme (IEA Wind) Task 49 on Integrated Design of Floating Wind Arrays.