Dr Carlos Loureiro
Honorary Research Fellow & Lecturer in Physical Geography
- 031 260 2516
- oureiroc@ukzn.ac.za
- PgCert in Higher Education Practice, PhD in Marine Sciences, PgDip in Coastal and Marine Studies, BSc (Hons) Physical Geography
- Geological Sciences
- Westville Campus
Dr Loureiro is marine geoscientist working on the coasts of South Africa, Portugal, Scotland and Ireland on a variety of research projects that normally include many hours on a beach and at sea collecting data and being rocked by some stormy waves. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at UKZN and Lecturer in Physical Geography at the University of Stirling in Scotland. He held a prestigious EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, during which he explored the nearshore response to extreme storms in eastern South Africa.
Research interests
- Coastal geomorphology
- Beach and barrier morphodynamics
- Storminess and climate change
- Extreme coastal storms and sea level rise
- Coastal hazards and management
- GIS, remote sensing and numerical modelling