About

Iñigo J. Losada, Bilbao (1962) has a PhD in Civil Engineering from the U. of Cantabria (UC) and a second PhD from the U. of Delaware (UD). From 1989-1992, he joined the Center for Applied Coastal Research (UD). Back at UC, since 1993 his research has embraced: coastal dynamics and protection; climate change and ocean energy. Since 1999 he is a Professor at UC and Director of Research of the Environmental Hydraulics Institute (IHCantabria) where he served as founding Director (2007-2011), after promoting its creation. Since its opening in 2011 Losada is also the Scientific Director of the Cantabria Coastal and Ocean Wave Basin, a unique large-scale infrastructure. In 2010-2019 he has been engaged in several IPCC reports, coordinating the chapter on coastal risks and adaptation in AR5. PI in > 30 projects funded by national and EU programs he has published >150 papers in top journals including: Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Coastal Engineering, etc. In 1992-2019, he ranks, #2 in the world in number of citations in the field of Coastal/ Ocean Engineering (WoS). Besides, he is listed in Essential Science Indicators in Engineering for the number of papers that perform in the top 1% most cited in the field. Research quantitative indicators are (h-index; citations): Scopus (53; 8226); WoS (50; 12207); Google scholar (73; 25284). He has been invited key-note speaker in the ASCE Annual Conference 2019; IAHR 38th World Congress 2019; 19th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation; ASCE-36th International Conference on Coastal Engineering 2018 among others.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Numerical Modeling Fluid Mechanics Numerical Simulation Computational Fluid Dynamics Experimental Fluid Mechanics CFD Simulation Modeling and Simulation Civil Engineering Climate Change Environment

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