OceanExpert ID : 89660
Mr. Gabriel DIAZ HERNANDEZ
Associate Professor
Departamento de Ciencias y Técnicas del Agua y del Medio Ambiente
IHCantabria - Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de la Universidad de Cantabria
IHCantabria
Calle Isabel Torres 15
39011 Santander Cantabria
Spain
Nationality
Mexico
Spain
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Telephone
+34655582813
ORCID :
0000-0002-7830-4683
PhD
Teaching/Education
Research
Climatology, Meteorology
Marine and Coastal Engineering
Research Support Services
He has participated in over 130 research and technology-transfer projects, acting as Principal Investigator in more than 40, including competitive national projects funded by the Spanish State Research Agency and large-scale operational systems for Puertos del Estado, international port authorities, and strategic institutional clients. He has led the development of operational ocean forecasting and early warning systems supporting harbour construction and maritime operations in Spain, the United Kingdom, Brazil and other international contexts.
His scientific production includes more than 20 indexed journal articles (Q1 journals such as Coastal Engineering and Ocean Engineering) and close to 100 conference contributions at national and international venues. He has been invited as an international expert in long-period wave mitigation and port resonance, and serves as Chairman of PIANC MarCom Working Group 232 on metocean-related risk during marine construction. He has supervised more than 50 graduate and postgraduate theses and co-supervised doctoral research within internationally recognised programmes, including Erasmus Mundus.
His profile combines scientific leadership, large-scale project management, international collaboration and strong technology transfer capacity to the port and maritime sector.
Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
Black Sea
North Sea
North Atlantic Ocean
South Atlantic Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
South Pacific Ocean
Baltic Sea
With more than two decades of international academic and professional experience, his work bridges fundamental research, operational engineering and real-world port applications. He has developed and led advanced numerical and operational frameworks for harbour agitation, infragravity wave dynamics, moored ship response (6DoF), and metocean-driven operational downtime. His expertise integrates Boussinesq and NSWE modelling, CFD applications, data assimilation, and AI-based inference systems for port decision support.
English
Spanish
