School of Mathematics and Statistics

NOW - Masters (M2) internship position to be filled for the Spring of 2021 followed by a PhD position

funded by the ERC under the HIGHWAVE project


UPCOMING - Postdoc position to be filled for the Summer of 2021

funded by SFI/EPSRC


My Curriculum Vitae

My Google Scholar

Professor at University College Dublin and Head of the Wave group

Ph. D. in Civil Engineering (University of Wisconsin, USA)
Habilitation (University of Nice)
Former student of Ecole Centrale of Paris

Work address :
School of Mathematics and Statistics, UCD
Science North G.03, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

Contact:
phone : +353 1 716 2559
e-mail : frederic.dias(at)ucd.ie

Some responsibilities

Secretary General of IUTAM (from 2008 to 2016).

Co-chief editor (with Wolfgang Schroder) of the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, published by Elsevier (Impact Factor 2019: 2.13).

Member of the Scientific Committee of Fondation des Treilles (from 2009 to 2017)

Some past responsibilities

Head of Mathematics Department of ENS-Cachan.

Board member of Association Francaise de Mecanique (AFM)

Advisory board member of Mathematiques et Applications published by Springer-Verlag.

Some research topics

Numerical computation of extreme three-dimensional waves.
Ocean energy.

Dispersive wave equations.
Generation of tsunamis.
Wave impact on structures.
Sloshing.

Wave climate.

Some review articles

Review article on wave turbulence (Physics Reports)

Review article on bifurcation of solitons and their stability (Physics Reports)

Review article on water waves (Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics)

Review article on numerical methods for water waves

List of Publications on MathSciNet

Wave session co-chair of ICTAM 2008

Graduate course on waves : Wave packets

Article on numerical wave tank

Article on numerical wave tank with increased efficiency

Article on generation of tsunami waves

Article on wave energy converters