Costas Synolakis#
| Membership Number: | 5161 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GREECE |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Secretary, Division of Natural Sciences, Academy of Athens (Greece)
- 2018 - 2019 President, Division of Natural Sciences, Academy of Athens (Greece)
- 2004 - present Professor of Natural Disasters and Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Technical University of Crete (Greece)
- 1996 - present Professor of Civil Engineering and Director, Tsunami Research Center, University of Southern California
- 2011 - 2013 President, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (Greece). HCMR has three institutes, one aquarium and two ships.
- 1991 - 1996 Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental and Aerospace Engineering, USC
- 1994 Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley
- 1985 - 1991 Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, USC
Fields of Scholarship
- Civil defense
- Erosion processes
- Coastal resilience
- Coastal engineering
- Natural disasters
- Emergency management
- Fire modeling/Wild fires
- Civil Engineering/ Earth Sciences
- Tsunamis
- Fires
- Hydrodynamics
Honours and Awards
- 2019 The International Coastal Engineering Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2017 Member, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea
- 2016 Member, Academy of Athens( National academy of Greece)
- 2015 The Moffatt and Nichol Harbor and Coastal Engineering Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2014 The Sergey Soloviev Medal on Natural Hazards of the European Geosciences Union
- 2001 The County of Los Angeles Award for Emergency Preparedness
- 1989 Presidential Young Investigator Award, the White House (awarded by the President of the USA)
- 1981 The Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Fellowship
