Biography
Navid Tahvildari, Ph.D., is an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Florida International University. Tahvildari received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a focus on Coastal and Ocean Engineering from Texas A&M University and was a postdoctoral research associate in Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at Stanford University. His research focuses on understanding the physics of flow in the coastal environment and assessing the impacts of coastal hazards on natural and built infrastructure, with the purpose of increasing the resiliency of coastal infrastructure.
Specifically, Tahvidlari is interested in waves and storm surge and their interactions with natural and built coastal infrastructure, compound flooding, nature-based solutions for coastal protection, and climate change and sea level rise impacts on flooding of coastal infrastructure. Tahvildari’s research has been supported by various sources including the NSF, NOAA, NASA, and DOT. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, American Society for Civil Engineers, and Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation and serves in ASCE’s Coastal Engineering Science committee, and Fluid Dynamics committee in the Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE.
Education
- Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University at College Station, 2011
- MS, Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2007
- BS, Civil Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran, 2007