Professor Frederic Dias

HIGHWAVE is an interdisciplinary project at the frontiers of coastal and ocean engineering...
Waves, an infinite source of energy for the humanity
and questions for scientists...
Why do waves break?
How do they dissipate energy?
...and why is this important?
Predicting the onset of breaking of water waves...
to improve wave breaking physics, sea state and ocean weather forecasting models.
in the west of Ireland, storms in the winter of 2013–2014 transported boulders inland distances up to 222 m.
sometime at elevations up to 29 m above high water...
...storm-wave energies on coasts remains to be fully understood...
Quantifying coastal boulders deposits dynamics helps us understand the transmission of wave energies inshore during high-energy storm events.

HIGHWAVE KICK OFF IN UCD

A presentation was held at the University Club, on the Belfield Campus of University College Dublin, (adjacent to the O’Reilly Hall Building, by the lake), on Wednesday October 2nd, 2019 to present Project Highwave, industry, private and public sector partners attended the event to meet the men and women of the wave group...

NEW ARTICLE IN NATURE REVIEWS PHYSICS

Decade of research into mystery rogue waves described in a major review published in Nature Reviews Physics

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Professor Frederic Dias

frederic dias Frédéric Dias is Professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University College Dublin, Ireland. Professor Dias is also a principal investigator with MaREI, the SFI Research Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy, and holds a position at Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, France.

Current research interests are focused on wave breaking, tsunami inundation, and wave-current interaction.

Frédéric Dias is an elected member of the Royal Irish Academy, of Academia Europaea and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

He is a former Secretary General of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM). He has held two European Research Council Advanced Grants (MULTIWAVE from 2012 to 2016 and HIGHWAVE from 2019 to 2024) and one European Research Council Proof of Concept Grant (WAVEMEASUREMENT from 2014 to 2015).