Mirjam Fürth, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ocean Engineering at Texas A&M University, where her research focuses on numerical and experimental hydrodynamics; of high-speed craft, marine vessels, offshore wind farms and robotic fish. Her area of expertise covers scaled and full scale experiments, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Machine Learning of Fluid Structure Interactions. Dr. Fürth holds a M.Sc. in Naval Architecture from KTH, Sweden, and a Ph.D. in Hydrodynamics from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Prior to joining Texas A&M University, she was an Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology and the Davidson Lab, and prior to that, she did her Post doc at Yokohama National University, Japan.

Dr. Fürth has served as PI on projects totaling over $2.5 million dollars funded by agencies such as the Office of Naval Research, Department of Energy and the Department of Interior. Dr. Fürth has published over 50 peer reviewed publications in leading venues in the field. In 2023, she was a co-editor of a special issue of Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part M: Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment on ‘Marine Hydrodynamics for Innovative Design’.