Curriculum Vitae

CONTACT INFORMATION

Maxim Nikurashin

Associate Professor in Physical Oceanography

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

University of Tasmania

Private Bag 129

Hobart, TAS 7001

Phone: +61(3)6226 8597

Email: Maxim.Nikurashin@utas.edu.au

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Meridional overturning circulation, deep stratification, ocean carbon cycle, geostrophic eddies, topographic internal waves, energy dissipation and mixing

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Physical Oceanography, 2009, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA USA 

M.S., Applied Physics and Mathematics, 2002, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia

B.S., Applied Physics and Mathematics, 2000, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia

POSITIONS HELD

Physical Oceanographer, University of Tasmania, 2012-present

Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University, 2009-2012

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Lecturer and Unit Coordinator, University of Tasmania, 2012-present

QMS511 Physical Oceanography

KSM310 Dynamical Oceanography

FIELD EXPERIENCE

Drake Passage and Western Antarctic Peninsula Shelf, 2006. XBT and CTD data collection and analysis. RV L.M. Gould

MIT/WHOI Joint Program orientation cruise, 2002. Sea Educational Association. SSV Corwith Cramer