Dr. Nouri is a coastal engineer with Moffatt &Nichol based in Seattle, WA with +10 years of professional and academic experience in coastal engineering and numerical modeling of coastal processes including wind-induced erosion, wave structure interaction, tsunami generation/propagation modeling, passing vessel hydrodynamic effects & mooring analysis, sediment mobility & capping design.

Younes is passionate about studying storms and beach storm response and has worked on several local and regional projects including a Lake Washington wave climatology for City of Seattle.

Originally from Tehran, Iran Younes received a PhD degree in coastal engineering at the Johns Hopkins University working with Robert Dalrymple. Younes is actively engaged with the professional community and is currently a member of COPRI Governing Board and ASCE 7 Tsunami Loads & Effects Committee.