Soukissian Takvor

• 1988-1995: PhD in Ocean Hydrodynamics, National Technical University of Athens – Dept. of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. Subject: Stochastic methods for analysis, modeling and prediction of wave climate.
• 1981-87: Diploma, National Technical University of Athens – Dept. of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

Professional Profile

• 1987-1995: Research assistant in the National Technical University of Athens- Dept. of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
• 1988-1990: Researcher, Marine Technology and Development Company SA, Athens, Greece
• 1995-1997: Researcher, Hellenic Register of Shipping, R&D Dept., Piraeus, Greece
• 1995-2000 Associate Researcher under contract, Institute of Oceanography, HCMR, Athens, Greece
• 2000-2003: Researcher (Grade C), Institute of Oceanography , HCMR, Athens, Greece
• 2003-to date: Senior Researcher (Grade B), Institute of Oceanography , HCMR, Athens, Greece

Scientific / Professional Memberships

• Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (1987 to date)
• Member of the Greek Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (1988-to date)
• Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Marine Science, University of Aegean (courses: Coastal Engineering, Wave Mechanics, in Undergraduate and Master Degree courses, 2001-2004)
• Instructor at the Master Degree course of the Dept. of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (course: Seminars on Ocean Technology, 2001-to date)
• Member of the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers-ISOPE (2004-to date)
• Member of the Technical Program Committee of the ISOPE Conferences (2004-to date)
• Member, Working Group on the Hydrodynamic Modeling of Coastal and Shelf Seas, Marine Board of the European Science Foundation (2004)
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering International Conference (OMAE), of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), USA (2008)
• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, The Open Ocean Engineering Journal (2009-to date)
• Guest editor of the special issue “Analysis of extremes waves”, The Open Ocean Engineering Journal (2010)
• Member of the International Scientific Committee, 7th International Workshop on Ship Hydrodynamics IWSH’2011 (2011)
• Reviewer in the International Journal of the Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (ΟΜΑΕ) Conference, Mediterranean Marine Science (Journal), Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Journal of Pure and Applied Geophysics, 5th International Conference on Technology and Automation
• Evaluator in proposals submitted to the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology and to the Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus.

Research Interests

• Marine Hydrodynamics
• Stochastic modeling and prediction of wave loads and ship and offshore structures responses
• Long-term modelling and prediction of wave and climate parameters
• Analysis and forecasting of wind and wave potential
• Offshore wind and wave energy assessment
• Time series analysis and modeling of climatic parameters
• Numerical wave simulation and forecasting models
• Operational Oceanography – Ocean monitoring systems
• Design and implementation of ocean monitoring systems
• Climate variability

Educator / teaching experience

• 1999-to date: Tutor, “Seminars on Ocean Technology”, Master Degree, Dept. of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
• 2010 Invited Tutor, “Introduction to the theory of wind waves”, International School of Marine Meteorology, Hellenic National Meteorological Service
• 2004-2005 Tutor, “Introduction to the theory of wind waves”, Summer School, TITHIS Institute of Oceanography, HCMR
• 2003-2006 Τutor, “Wave dynamics”, School of Sailing trainers (A and B grade) Hellenic Offshore Racing Club (HORC)
• 2001-2004: Assistant Professor, Coastal Mechanics, Wave Dynamics, Dept. of Marine Science, University of Aegean (Undergraduate and Master Degree courses), Mytilini, Greece
• 1989-1995, Tutor, “Hydrodynamic of Ocean Systems”, Dept. of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
• Committee member in 1 PhD Thesis (in progress), Supervisor in 12 MSc Theses (10 completed, 2 in progress) and Supervisor in 8 Diploma Theses (7 completed, 1 in progress)

• Soukissian, T.H., Prospathopoulos, A. and Diamanti, C., 2002, “Wind and wave data analysis of the Aegean Sea. Preliminary results”, The Global Atmosphere and Ocean Systems, Volume 8, Numbers 2-3, pp. 163 – 189.
• Soukissian, T.H., Chronis, G.Th., Nittis, K., Diamanti, Ch., 2002, “Advancement of Operational Oceanography in Greece: The case of the POSEIDON system”, The Global Atmosphere and Ocean Systems, Volume 8, Numbers 2-3, pp. 119 – 133.
• Soukissian T.H., Prospathopoulos A., 2003, “Implementation of the 3rd generation Wave Model WAM – cycle 4 in Aegean Sea”, Tech. Chron., Scientific Journal of the Technical Chamber of Greece, IV, Vol. 23, No. 1-2, pp. 7-19 (extended summary in English).
• P.Aillot, M. Prevosto, T. Soukissian, C. Diamanti, A. Theodoulidis and C. Politis, 2003, “Simulation of sea state parameters process to study the profitability of a maritime line”, Proceedings of the 13th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Vol. III, pp. 51-57, ISBN 1-880653-60−5.
• C. Kechris, Soukissian, T.H., 2004, “Inter-comparison of Topex/Poseidon, wave buoy and WAM model results in North Aegean Sea”, Proceedings of the 14th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Vol. III, pp. 163-168, ISBN 1-880653-62−1
• Soukissian, T.Η., G. Kalantzi, 2006, “Extreme value analysis methods used for wave prediction”, Proceedings of the 16th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Vol. III, pp. 10-17, ISBN 1-880653-66−4
• Soukissian, T.Η., G. Kalantzi, I. Karagali, 2006, “De-clustering of -Time Series for Applying the Peaks-Over-Threshold Method”, Proceedings of the 16th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Vol. III, pp. 18-25, ISBN 1-880653-66−4.
• Soukissian, T.Η., P. Samalekos, 2006, “Analysis of the duration and intensity of sea states using segmentation of significant wave height time series”, Proceedings of the 16th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Vol. III, pp. 107-113, ISBN 1-880653-66−4.
• Soukissian, T.Η., Kalantzi, G., 2007, “A new method for applying the r-largest maxima model for design sea-state prediction”, Proceedings of the 17th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Vol. III, pp. 1843-1849, ISBN 978-1-880653-68-5.
• Soukissian T.H., Prospathopoulos A., 2007, “The Errors-in-Variables approach for the validation of the WAM wave model in the Aegean Sea”, Mediterranean Marine Science, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 47-62.
• Soukissian T., Kechris C., 2007, “About applying linear structural method on ocean data: Adjustment of satellite wave data”, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 34, No. 3-4, pp 371-389.
• Soukissian T., Prospathopoulos, A., Hatzinaki, M., Kabouridou, M., 2008, “Assessment of the wind and wave climate of the Hellenic Seas using 10-year hindcast results”, The Open Ocean Engineering Journal, Vol. 1, pp 1-12.
• Soukissian T.H., Prospathopoulos A., Korres G., Papadopoulos A., Hatzinaki M., Kambouridou M., 2008, “A New Wind and Wave Atlas of the Hellenic Seas”, Proceedings of the ASME 27th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2008, June 15-20, 2008, Estoril, Portugal.
• Soukissian T.H., Morfis I., Alexakis S., 2008, “An Integrated Wave Monitoring Network for the Hellenic Seas”, Proceedings of the ASME 27th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2008, June 15-20, 2008, Estoril, Portugal.
• Soukissian T.H., Photiadou, C.S., 2008, “A sensitivity analysis of the bottom-up algorithm for the segmentation of HS-time series”, Proceedings of the 18th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Vol. III, pp. 122-128, ISBN 978-1-880653-70-8.
• Soukissian T.H., Tzortzi E, Kokkali, A.G., 2009, “Spatio-temporal behavior of wind and sea states in the Hellenic Seas”, Proceedings of the 19th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Vol. III, pp. 792-799, ISBN 978-1-880653-53-1 (Set); ISSN 1098-618.
• Soukissian, T.Η., Kalantzi, G., 2009, “A new method for applying the r-largest maxima model for design sea-state prediction”, International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering (ISSN 1053-5381), Vol. 19, No. 3, September 2009, pp. 176–182.
• Kalantzi, G., Soukissian, T.Η., Nittis, K. 2010, “Assessment of surface circulation using remote-sensed data, in-situ measurements and directional statistics” Indian Journal of Marine Sciences, Vol. 39(1), pp. 15-26.
• Soukissian T.H., Ntoumas M.C., Anagnostou, C., Kiriakidou, C., 2010, “Coastal Vulnerability of Eastern Saronikos Gulf to intense natural events”, Proceedings of the 19th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Vol. I, pp. 863-870, ISBN 978-1-880653-77-7 (Set); ISSN 1098-6189 (Set);
• Soukissian T.H., Gizari, N., Chatzinaki, M., 2011, “Wave potential of the Greek seas”, WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol 143, pp. 203-213, WIT Press.
• Soukissian, T.Η., Arapi P., 2011, “The effect of declustering in the r-largest maxima model for the estimation of -design values”, The Open Ocean Engineering Journal, Vol. 4, pp. 34-43.