Costas E. Synolakis, Professor

Dr. Costas Synolakis

Contact information Dr. Costas E. Synolakis Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southern California 3620 S. Vermont Avenue, KAP 206C Los Angeles, CA 90089-2531 Tel:  (213) 740-0613 Fax: (213) 744-1426 Email: costas@usc.edu

Research Interests

• Tsunami research; inundation field surveys, numerical and analytical modeling, and hazard assessment, mitigation and planning
• Breaking waves
• Wave runup
• Hydrodynamic pressures on dams
• Two-phase flow

Tsunami Research Center

Biographical information

B.S. – 1978 – California Institute of Technology
M.S. – 1979 – California Institute of Technology
Ph.D. – 1985 – California Institute of Technology