Alexander Andriatis
I'm a postdoctoral researcher in the Environmental Dynamics Laboratory at MIT, where I study ocean turbulence and particle transport. My current work supports understanding the efficacy of marine carbon dioxide removal and the environmental impacts of deep-sea mining. My research spans observational field campaigns using novel instruments, lab studies, and numerical modeling.
I am also a passionate decarbonization advocate and enjoy thinking about solutions for the clean energy transition.
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Publications
Peer-reviewed
Andriatis, A., M. H. Alford, A. J. Lucas, S. Merrifield, and L. Lenain, 2026: Observations of Turbulent Structures at the Base of the Ocean Mixed Layer. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 56, 2179–2202, https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-25-0169.1
Andriatis, A., L. Lenain, M. H. Alford, N. Winstead, and J. Geiman, 2024: Observations and Numerical Simulations of the Onset and Growth of Langmuir Circulations. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 54, 1737–1763, https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-24-0004.1.
Costa, L., Andriatis, A., Brennich, M. et al., 2016: Combined small angle X-ray solution scattering with atomic force microscopy for characterizing radiation damage on biological macromolecules. BMC Struct Biol 16, 18, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12900-016-0068-2
In preparation
Andriatis, A., M. H. Alford, A. J. Lucas, S. Merrifield, and L. Lenain: Observations of near-inertial wave vorticity refraction from a drifting Wirewalker array.
Theses
Andriatis, A., 2025: Turbulent Mixing in the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer. [Doctoral dissertation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography]. University of California San Diego.
Andriatis, A., 2018: Generator-level acceptance for the measurement of the inclusive cross section of W-boson and Z-boson production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 5 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. [Bachelor’s thesis, Department of Physics]. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115668