Postdoctoral Researcher

Growing up on the small island of Corsica surfing, sailing and working on small fishing boats, I developed a facination for coastal processes and the marine environment. I have studied a range of coastal processes including the dissipation of storm waves in the English Channel (Great Britain) using offshore buoys; the morphological response of Narrabeen beach (Australia) to El Niño/la Niña cycles using nearshore wave hindcasts and beach surveys; and the transformation of waves over shore platforms in New Zealand using AUVs, pressure sensor arrays, and current meters. I then worked for the local government in New Zealand as a lead coastal scientist, leading the strategic response to climate change, the development of monitoring strategies and engineering solutions for a district covering 200 km of coastline. I am now focusing on linking cliff erosion hotspots to environmental forcings using coastal wave, rain, ground water and LiDAR data. I employ a range of different techniques in my work combining in-situ data (current, waves, bathymetry and morphology) and numerical wave models (phase resolving and phase averaging) to link environmental parameters to coastal geomorphological response.