New Faculty Spotlight: Julia Hopkins

Julia Hopkins joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in August 2020 as an Assistant Professor. She received her PhD in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering from MIT. Her research interests include coastal morphodynamics, including effects of extreme weather events on sediment transport in the surf zone; wave-current interactions in the nearshore; developing and implementing field-verified numerical models to study coastal processes, informing coastal management with process-based research.

Related Departments:Civil & Environmental Engineering