Ahmed Ibrahim Elshinnawy
Biografhy
Dr. Ahmed Elshinnawy is an associate researcher assigned to the Coastal Engineering and Management Group of IHCantabria. Ahmed holds a B.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Tanta, Egypt (2006) and a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering (Hydraulics Engineering) from the same university (2012). He studied the PhD programme in Coastal Engineering, Hydrobiology and Management of Aquatic Systems (IH2O), at the Universidad de Cantabria. He worked at the Coastal Engineering and Management Group of IHCantabria during the development of his doctoral thesis. In 2021, he joined the group of Marine Climate and Climate Change, as a postdoctoral researcher and, in 2022, he joined the Foundation Institute of the Environmental Hydraulics of Cantabria, based on the Agreement “Joint Strategy for Research and Innovation in Marine Sciences”. In 2023, he joined the Coastal Hydrodynamics and Infrastructures Group of IHCantabria. Since 2024, he has been assigned as an associate researcher at IHCantabria.
Ahmed Elshinnawy has a wide experience on wind- wave numerical modelling and the models used to generate hindcast and forecast databases of waves at global, regional, and local scales. He has also broad expertise in coastal morpho-dynamics and modelling of the shoreline of pocket beaches in static and dynamic equilibrium conditions. He has an expert level on third-generation spectral wave models such as WAVEWATCH III and SWAN that have been used to provide support in the generation of wave climatic datasets. He has also wide experience in process-based models for wave, hydrodynamics, morpho-dynamics simulations (e.g. Delft3D and XBeach) and the coastal modelling system (SMC).
His research focuses on the study of marine surface dynamics, mainly, wind and wave dynamics, with special interest in their climate analysis at different timescales and correlation with large atmospheric circulation patterns. Additionally, his research addresses the correlation between the directional wave climate and the shoreline orientation and equilibrium planform shape in the long-term.
RESEARCH LINES
Numerical wind-wave simulations using third-generation models.
Calibration of wind re-analysis data and wave hindcasts based on satellite altimeter data.
Static and dynamic equilibrium of bay beaches and relation with the directional wave climate.
Wave climate modelling and analysis at various temporal and spatial scales.
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