Professor of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Cantabria

Biography

Dr. Fernando Méndez is full professor of Coastal Engineering at University of Cantabria (Spain), where is the head of the research group on “Geomatics and Ocean Engineering”. His research lines are focused on building knowledge to incorporate climate characterization and data science in coastal engineering, including databases of marine variables, statistical models of extremes, data mining, statistical downscaling, climate variability, climate change, tropical cyclones, dynamical downscaling, flooding and coastal erosion. He is a leading expert in his discipline and has on-going collaborations within many research groups, in USA (Duke Univ., OSU, SCRIPPS, USGS, NOAA), Brazil (UFSC), New Zealand (NIWA, U. Auckland), Spain (UPC, Univ. Granada, AZTI, U. Coruña) and Australia (CSIRO, U. Sydney, UNSW).