Sara Cloux
Sara Cloux is a physicist whose research focuses on the development and application of Lagrangian models to study transport processes oceanic systems. She obtained her Ph.D. in Ocean Sciences from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). Since then, she has held postdoctoral research positions at different competitive institutions such as Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC, UIB-CSIC) and at the Marine Institute. Throughout her career, she has collaborated on multiple national and international competitive research projects.
Her early research focused on atmospheric transport processes, including the identification of potential moisture sources for atmospheric rivers and the analysis of associated trajectories. She subsequently expanded her work to oceanographic applications, investigating the Lagrangian transport of matter in coastal systems, such as estuaries, as well as in larger-scale domains across the North Atlantic. This research addressed connectivity, dispersion, and accumulation processes.
During her postdoctoral research at IFISC she investigated the relationship between surface coherent structures and vertical ocean dynamics. Her work demonstrated the existence of attractive structures associated with significant vertical motions, establishing a functional link between two-dimensional Lagrangian analyses and three-dimensional oceanic processes.
More recently, at the Marine Institute, her research has focused on the transport and accumulation of marine litter, incorporating increasing levels of physical complexity.Her current research also explores the application of machine learning techniques to Lagrangian models, with the aim of improving source identification and quantifying the relative contributions of different sources to ocean transport processes.
