Vassiliki H. Kourafalou

She is an expert in coastal dynamics, extending to the shelf break processes and interaction with oceanic flows.

Kourafalou has taught courses on Coastal Oceanography and advises graduate students on coastal and shelf processes, river plume dynamics, numerical modeling, and ocean prediction.

Current research in Kourafalou’s group focuses on the science needed to advance the understanding, modeling, and prediction of the interdisciplinary dynamics in the coastal ocean and regional seas.

The focus is on coastal to large-scale exchanges, toward the study of seamless ocean systems, from the deep to the shelf and coastal scales. Kourafalou has pioneered research in river plume dynamics and interaction of coastal and offshore flows.