David Cerda Salzmann graduated at the faculty of Civil Engineering within the section of Offshore Engineering on his thesis entitled “Dynamic Response Calculations of Offshore Wind Turbine Monopile Support Structures” in 2004. Directly after graduating he started a PhD research at the Delft University of Technology entitled “Ampelmann - Development of the Access System for Offshore Wind Turbines” which was completed in 2010. During his time as a PhD student, he was involved in developing and teaching different courses inside and outside the Offshore Engineering curriculum and acted as curriculum leader for a year. He remained involved in education at the Offshore Wind group at the Delft University until the end of 2012. In 2007 he co-founded Ampelmann Operations BV. Within this company David was responsible for the software development, design, calculations and certification of the Ampelmann systems. He became Manager R&D in 2011 and developed the Educations program for the company in 2013. Since 2014 he has been working as an Internal Consultant for the company.