About Natalia Aleksandrova

Natalia Aleksandrova is a researcher in environmental hydrodynamics and flood hazards. Her work focuses on the influence of climate change on the natural hazards, such as flooding, in the context of climate risk assessments. Natalia is experienced in data analysis of climate datasets and statistics of extreme weather conditions. She is engaged in modelling of coastal hydrodynamics and flooding using open-source software (Delft3D-FM, SWAN and SFINCS) in the context of both research and consultancy work at Deltares.

Natalia started her career at Deltares in 2017 as an advisor in hydraulics for the offshore wind industry, carrying out experiments at the Deltares hydraulic facilities on the interaction between offshore structures and the marine environment. She has also conducted wave modelling studies for the determination of offshore design conditions (metocean studies) and contributed to multidisciplinary projects on marine ecology in offshore wind farms. Natalia was engaged in several joint-industry research projects (JIP HaSPro, Road2SID), next to consultancy work for offshore wind farm developers and contractors.

Currently Natalia plays an active role in European research projects at Deltares. In the Horizon Europe CLIMAAX project she is developing open-source tools for climate risk assessment at regional level. In the COMPASS project she is working on the development of a modelling framework for compound flooding caused by tropical cyclones in the context of the changing climate.