DI LORENZO RESEARCH GROUP
CURRENT MEMBERS
Emanuele Di Lorenzo
Professor & Director, Program in Ocean Science & Engineering
Ocean and climate dynamics, inverse modeling, marine ecosystem dynamics, and social-ecological-environmental systems
Giangiacomo Navarra
Ph.D. Graduate Student
North Pacific ocean and atmosphere variability, climate modeling
Youngjun Son
Ph.D. Graduate Student
Numerical modeling of coastal dynamics and compound flooding in coastal regions.
Elise Beaudin
Ph.D. Graduate Student
Ocean modeling, regional transport dynamics in the Gulf of Alaska
Kyungmin Park
Ph.D. Graduate Student
Ocean and coastal modeling, hurricane, storm surge, sediment transport, prediction of flood inundation
PAST MEMBERS
Graduate Students:
Erin Guderian (Ph.D.), 2019-2021 (transferred to UC Boulder)
Tongtong Xu (Ph.D.), 2017-2021 (graduated)
Youngji Joh (Ph.D.), 2015-2020 (graduated)
Ahn Soengho (Ph.D.), 2017-2019 (graduated, co-advised)
Paige Copenhaver (Ph.D.), 2018-2019
Donghua Cai (M.S.), 2014-2017 (graduated)
Jade Sainz (Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara, co-advising), 2016-2021
Giovanni Liquori (Ph.D.), 2013-2018 (graduated)
Maria Mercedes Pozo Buil (Ph.D.), 2012-2017 (graduated)
Alex Ke (Ph.D.), 2014-2015 (not finished)
Andrew Davis (Ph.D.), 2009-2014 (graduated)
Lina Ceballos (Ph.D.), 2006-2009 (not graduated)
Vincent Combes (Ph.D.), 2005-2010 (graduated)
Jason Furtado (Ph.D.), 2005-2010 (graduated)
Carina Saxton, (M.S.), 2006-2009 (graduated)
Dana Ionita (M.S. co-advising), 2005-2007 (graduated)
Sara Vieira (Ph.D. co-advising), 2005-2007 (graduated)
Lokesh Padhye (Ph.D.), 2004-2005 (graduated)
Undergraduate Students:
Anna Handley, Dean Fellowship College of Science, 2018
Mengqiao Gao, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2018
Alexandra Sitar, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, 2017-2018
Namrata Kolla, Public Policy and Earth Science, 2015-2017
Andrew Smith, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, 2012-2014
Eleanor Middlemas, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, 2012-2014
Hunter Clausen, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, 2010-2012
Carina Saxton, Math, 2004-2006
Dian Putrasahan, Chemical Engineering, 2005
Visiting Scholars & Students:
Sheng Wu (Peking University, Beijing, China), 2018-2019
Gulia Bonino (University of Bologna, Italy), 2017-2019
Yingying Zhao (Peking University, Beijing, China), 2016-2018
David Donoso (SCOR Fellow, University Cattolica, Chile), 2015
Romeo Saldivar (Center for Marine Science, La Paz), 2014
Raffaele Ruggio (Applied Math, University of Lecce), 2012-2013
Maria Mercedes Pozo Buil (Oceanography, University of Cadiz) 2010-2012
Patrick Kilduff (Biology, University of California Davis ), 2011
Neri Mariani (Statistics, University of Florence), 2008-2009
Cesare Mosca (Civil Engineering, University of Pisa), 2006-2007
Tom Kilparick (Oceanography, University of Hawaii) 2006-2007
Postdoctoral Students and Research Scientists
Yingying Zhao (Ph.D. Peking University), 2019-present
Ata Suanda (Ph.D. from Oregon State), 2016-2017
Xiufeng Xang (Ph.D. from Georgia Tech), 2014-2016
Laurie Trenary (Ph.D. from University of Colorado Boulder), 2012-2013
Hao Luo (Ph.D. from University of Arizona), 2009-2014
Hazem Nagy (Ph.D. University of Turkey, Fulbright Scholar), 2010-2011
Ketty Chhak (Ph. D. from University of Colorado), 2006-2008
Administrative Personnel:
Daniela Estrada, 2018-present, OSE Program Coordinator
Shellby Miller, 2016-2018, OSE Program Coordinator
Matteo Miller, 2012-2014, Programmer and OCES Computing System Admin
Janet McGraw, 2008-2015, Group Administrative Support
Keith Mercer, 2016-2017, Programmer and Computing System Admin