Coastal Hydrology Lab
THE TEAM
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor; Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Associate Director; Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research
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Dr. Hamed Moftakhari is an associate professor at the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, in The University of Alabama
Phone: +1 205 348 0239
Email: hmoftakhari@eng.ua.edu
Office: 1029 Cyber Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
Current Members
Soheil Radfar, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist (since February 2023)
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Education:
Ph.D., Coastal, Ports, and Marine Structures Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University (Iran)
M.Sc., Coastal, Ports, and Marine Structures Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University (Iran)
B.Sc., Civil Engineering, University of Tehran (Iran)
Research Interests:
Compound hazards, Physics-informed machine learning methods, Coastal processes and hydrodynamics, Multihazard risk analysis, Stochastic and numerical modeling
Dev Anand Thakur, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow (since August 2025)
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Education:
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (India)
M. Tech, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (India)
B.E., Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering (India)
Research Interests:
Multi-hazard Flood Modeling; Multi-hazard Risk Assessment; Surface Hydrology; Hydro climatology; Vulnerability assessment; Hydrological and Hydrodynamic modeling
Michael Lewis
MSc/Ph.D. student (since August 2021)
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Education:
M.Sc., Civil Engineering, The University of Alabama (USA)
B.Sc., Civil Engineering, The University of Alabama (USA)
B.A., Spanish, The University of Alabama (USA)
minors in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering; Mathematics; Global and Cultural Perspectives; and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
Research Interests:
Coastal community resilience, Food-energy-water nexus in coastal systems.
Javier Robles Camacho
Ph.D. student (since January 2023)
Education:
M.Sc., Marine Environment & Resources, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
B.Sc., Sustainable Management of Coastal Areas, National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico)
Research Interests:
Environmental management, Coastal hydrodynamics, Numerical modelling
Faezeh Maghsoodifar
Ph.D. student (since August 2023)
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Education:
M.Sc., Civil Engineering, Bu-Ali Sina University (Iran)
B.Sc., Civil Engineering, Islamic Azad University (Iran)
Research Interests:
Coastal Resilience, Coastal Hydrodynamics, Sea‑Level Rise Impacts, Flooding mechanisms, Compound Hazards, Risk Assessment
Saide Zand
Ph.D. student (since January 2024)
Education:
M.Sc., Civil Engineering, K.N.Toosi University of Technology (Iran)
B.Sc., Civil Engineering, Razi University(Iran)
Research Interests:
Physics-informed machine learning,
Compound flood inundation mapping, Remote sensing analysis
Md Khairul Amin
M.Sc./Ph.D. student (since January 2025)
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Education:
B.Sc., Water Resources Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh)
Research Interests:
Coastal Hydrodynamics, Storm Surge Modeling, Coastal Vulnerability Assessment
Maiesha Nujhat
M.Sc. student (since May 2025)
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Education:
B.Sc., Water Resources Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh)
Research Interests:
Coastal Hydrodynamics, Uncertainty Propagation, Compound Flood Modeling
Brett Jones
M.Sc. student (since August 2025)
Education:
B.Sc, Professional Meteorology, Mississippi State University (USA)
Research Interests:
Hydrometeorology, Flood Inundation Mapping, Storm Surge Modeling
Alumni
Ebrahim Hamidi
PhD,2025
Now at North Carolina State University
Sadaf Mahmoudi
PhD,2025
Now at Carnegie Mellon University
Meraj Sohrabi
PhD,2025
Now at Lehigh University
Georgios Boumis
PhD, 2024
Now at the University of Maine
Karim Alizad
Visiting Scientist, 2023
David F. Muñoz
PhD & Postdoc, 2021
Now at Virginia Tech
Aaron Vandermus
MSc, 2021
Tanner Bennett
BSc, 2024
Kaitlyn Bishay
BSc, 2021
Maria Boehm
BSc, 2022
Sierra Perrine
BSc, 2022