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2026

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D-Index
65
Citations
15474
World Ranking
1536
National Ranking
9

Frédéric Dias publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Frédéric Dias sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 329 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Frédéric Dias D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Frédéric Dias sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2017 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2016 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Frédéric Dias is affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland and has a significant academic presence in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering. Their research primarily focuses on oceanographic phenomena and related environmental and engineering challenges.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Wave and Wind Energy Systems
  • Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions

Key subfields of study covered by their publications are:

  • Oceanography
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ocean Engineering

Frédéric Dias has published extensively, with notable contributions in journals and platforms such as Physics of Fluids, arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Frontiers in Earth Science.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard and Risk Analysis: A Review of Research Gaps, 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Systematic Review Shows That Work Done by Storm Waves Can Be Misinterpreted as Tsunami-Related Because Commonly Used Hydrodynamic Equations Are Flawed, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Reactive control of wave energy devices - the modelling paradox, 2021, Applied Ocean Research
  • Faster Than Real Time Tsunami Warning with Associated Hazard Uncertainties, 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Storm Waves May Be the Source of Some "Tsunami" Coastal Boulder Deposits, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent collaborators include Vikram Pakrashi, Clément Calvino, Daniel Giles, Tomasz Dabrowski, and Daniel Peláez-Zapata. These collaborative relationships have contributed to a body of work that spans theoretical and applied research challenges in ocean and atmospheric sciences.

Recognition of their scholarly achievements includes election to prestigious academies. They were named a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2016 and a Member of Academia Europaea in 2017, reflecting their engagement and standing within the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • The Peregrine soliton in nonlinear fibre optics

    Bertrand Kibler;Julien Fatome;Christophe Finot;Guy Millot

  • Instabilities, breathers and rogue waves in optics

    John M. Dudley;Frédéric Dias;Miro Erkintalo;Goëry Genty

  • Modulation instability, Akhmediev Breathers and continuous wave supercontinuum generation.

    John M. Dudley;Goëry Genty;Frédéric Dias;Bertrand Kibler

  • Rogue waves and analogies in optics and oceanography

    John M. Dudley;Goëry Genty;Arnaud Mussot;Amin Chabchoub

  • Observation of Kuznetsov-Ma soliton dynamics in optical fibre

    Bertrand Kibler;Julien Fatome;Christophe Finot;Guy Millot

  • A fully non‐linear model for three‐dimensional overturning waves over an arbitrary bottom

    Stéphan T. Grilli;Philippe Guyenne;Frédéric Dias

  • NONLINEAR GRAVITY AND CAPILLARY-GRAVITY WAVES

    Frédéric Dias;Christian Kharif

  • Real world ocean rogue waves explained without the modulational instability

    Francesco Fedele;Joseph Brennan;Sonia Ponce de León;John Dudley

  • Real-time measurements of spontaneous breathers and rogue wave events in optical fibre modulation instability

    Mikko Närhi;Benjamin Wetzel;Cyril Billet;Shanti Toenger;Shanti Toenger

  • One-dimensional wave turbulence

    Vladimir Zakharov;Vladimir Zakharov;Frédéric Dias;Andrei Pushkarev

  • Numerical modeling of extreme rogue waves generated by directional energy focusing

    Christophe Fochesato;Christophe Fochesato;Stéphan Grilli;Frédéric Dias

  • Real-time full bandwidth measurement of spectral noise in supercontinuum generation.

    Benjamin Wetzel;Alessio Stefani;Laurent Larger;Pierre-Ambroise Lacourt

  • Theory of weakly damped free-surface flows: A new formulation based on potential flow solutions

    F. Dias;A.I. Dyachenko;V.E. Zakharov;V.E. Zakharov;V.E. Zakharov

  • Gravity-capillary solitary waves in water of infinite depth and related free-surface flows

    Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck;Frédéric Dias

  • Resonant behaviour of an oscillating wave energy converter in a channel

    Emiliano Renzi;F. Dias

  • Hydrodynamics of the oscillating wave surge converter in the open ocean

    Emiliano Renzi;F. Dias;F. Dias

  • Nonlinear effects in the response of a floating ice plate to a moving load

    Emilian Parau;Frederic Dias

  • Probabilistic tsunami hazard and Risk analysis: a review of research gaps

    Jörn Behrens;Finn Løvholt;Fatemeh Jalayer;Stefano Lorito

  • Emergent rogue wave structures and statistics in spontaneous modulation instability.

    Shanti Toenger;Thomas Godin;Cyril Billet;Frédéric Dias

  • Slamming: Recent Progress in the Evaluation of Impact Pressures

    Frédéric Dias;Jean Michel Ghidaglia

  • Collisions and turbulence in optical rogue wave formation

    G. Genty;C.M. de Sterke;Ole Bang;F. Dias

  • Wave interaction with an oscillating wave surge converter, Part I: Viscous effects

    Yanji Wei;Ashkan Rafiee;Alan Henry;Frederic Dias

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Dudley
John M. Dudley University of Franche-Comté
Goëry Genty
Goëry Genty Tampere University
Denys Dutykh
Denys Dutykh Khalifa University
Nail Akhmediev
Nail Akhmediev Australian National University
Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck
Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck University College London
Bertrand Kibler
Bertrand Kibler Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Guy Millot
Guy Millot University of Burgundy
Christophe Finot
Christophe Finot University of Burgundy
Julien Fatome
Julien Fatome University of Burgundy
Thibaut Sylvestre
Thibaut Sylvestre Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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