Coastal Hydrology Lab
THE TEAM
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Hamed Moftakhari, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor
hmoftakhari@ua.edu | Google Scholar | ORCID
Dr. Hamed Moftakhari is an associate professor at the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, in The University of Alabama
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Phone: +1 205 348 0239
Email: hmoftakhari@eng.ua.edu
Office: 1068 Cyber Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
Current Members
Soheil Radfar, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher (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:
Multihazard risk analysis, Coastal resilience, Stochastic and numerical modeling, Machine learning and data-driven methods, Coastal processes and hydrodynamics
Ebrahim Hamidi
Ph.D. Candidate (since January 2021)
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Education:
M.Sc., Civil Engineering, Shiraz University (Iran)
Research Interests:
Compound coastal flood hazard assessments using numerical simulation, Remote sensing analysis, Statistical techniques, High-performance computing, Cloud computing
Georgios Boumis
Ph.D. Candidate (since January 2021)
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Education:
M.Sc., Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
B.Sc., Civil Engineering, University of Patras (Greece)
Research Interests:
Coastal hazards, Geostatistics, Disaster analytics
Michael Lewis
MSc/Ph.D. student (since August 2021)
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.
Sadaf Mahmoudi
Ph.D. Candidate (since August 2021)
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Education:
M.Sc., Civil Engineering, University of Tehran (Iran)
B.Sc., Civil Engineering, University of Tehran (Iran)
Research Interests:
Physics-informed machine learning, Nature-based solutions for coastal flood risk mitigation, Wetlands, Sea level rise impacts
Meraj Sohrabi
Ph.D. Candidate (since August 2021)
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Education:
M.Sc., Civil Engineering, University of Tehran (Iran)
B.Sc., Civil Engineering, University of Tehran (Iran)
Research Interests:
Hurricane-driven coastal flooding, Multivariate statistics, Hazard prediction
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
PhD 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:
Hydrodynamic modeling, Hydroinformatic, Coastal hazards risk assessment, Geostatistics, Digital signal processing
Saide Zand
PhD 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
Alumni
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