Tanos Elfouhaily
Tanos (Tony) Elfouhaily
1968-2006
On July 26, 2006 AMP lost one of its brightest members.
Tony's sudden passing, so early in his life, is a tragedy to all of
us, and to the science community as a whole.
To his family, we express our deepest sympathies.

This web page is dedicated as a tribute to Tony's scientific achievements during his too brief career. Tony was born in Lebanon, where he received the Baccalauréat-C degree in Physics and General Sciences from Sacré-Coeur school (1987). He then received the DEUG-A (B.Sc.) degree from Université Paris-XIII (1989) and DEA (M. Sc.) degree in Applied Physics from Université Paris-VII (1993). In 1996 he was awarded the Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from Université Paris-VII for his work on remote sensing of the ocean. Much of his doctoral research was carried out at IFREMER (Brest, France) under the supervision of Dr. Bertrand Chapron and the direction of Professors Kristina Katsaros and Claude Klapisz.

Following his doctoral studies, Dr. Elfouhaily carried out a postdoc at NASA Goddard and the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University. This was followed by a further two years as Senior Staff Physicist at APL. During his years at APL, Tony worked on a variety of problems related to electromagnetic scattering and nonlinear wave theory. Tony then returned to France, taking up an appointment  as a researcher (chargé de recherche) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in the field of remote sensing and turbulence in fluid mechanics of nonlinear media (2000-2004). In 2004, he joined the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School as an Associate Professor of Applied Marine Physics.

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