Costas Synolakis

  • Professor of civil and environmental engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Office: (310) 301-2155

Expertise Summary

Expert on tsunamis and tsunami hazard mitigation, ocean water flow and pollutant migration, and coastal and beach erosion

Expertise

  • computer tomography applications in materials testing
  • nondestructive testing of composites
  • nondestructive testing of asphalt pavements and concrete
  • natural hazard mitigation
  • vibration control
  • tsunamis
  • tsunami hazard mitigation
  • hydrodynamic pressures on dams
  • reservoir vibrations
  • disaster mitigation
  • natural hazard mitigation
  • ocean dispersion of pollutants
  • coastal effects of long waves
  • coastal and ocean engineering
  • beach erosion

Additional Information

Recipient, Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation (1989)