Patrick J. Lynett

Patrick J. Lynett is an American coastal engineer and Shea Chair Professor in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California. He works in the area of coastal impacts due to extreme natural events.

He graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. (1997), M.E. (1998), and Ph.D (2002). He taught at Texas A&M University from 2002-2010, and spent a fellowship year at Princeton University in 2011. He is the Secretary of the Coastal Engineering Research Council and is the Editor of the Coastal Engineering Proceedings. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010. Provided by Wikipedia