About

Dr Bahareh Kamranzad is a Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow in the ​Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. She is the head of the "Coastal Engineering & Ocean Climate" research group (http://oceanclimate.info/) and a leader within Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training in "AI-Based Ocean Forecasts for Marine Operation" mArIneCAST CDT. Her research interests lie within the field of Physical Oceanography and Coastal Engineering and her primary research focuses on investigating the impacts of climate change on oceanic conditions and coastal processes, ocean renewable energies (mainly wave energy and offshore wind), extreme events, and coastal hazards, protection & resilience. To advance these research interests, she employs a range of computational tools, including numerical models, soft computing methods, and hybrid approaches for the simulation of oceanic conditions, data assimilation, and regional downscaling of climate projections. Prior to joining the University of Strathclyde, she worked in Japan for six years, initially at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University under the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship (acceptance rate < 10%), and then, at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University (acceptance rate < 4%) as an Assistant Professor. Furthermore, in 2022, she was a visiting researcher at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College, London.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

- Ocean renewable energies - Climate change impacts - Numerical wave modeling - Wind and wave climate assessment - Extreme events - Coastal protection and resilience

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