Tenured Associate Professor at the Ocean Engineering Program, Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil. Research interests: Wind Waves – Experimental, Theoretical and Numerical Approaches; The 2D Wave Spectrum Extracted from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Images; Coastal Processes and Surf Zone Hydrodynamics; Satellite Oceanography; Air-sea interactions; Climate and Climate Change.

PhD: University of Southampton, United Kingdom
MSc: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Main research topic: Physical Oceanography
Email: n_violante@oceanica.ufrj.br
Phone: +55 (21) 3938-8750