Salika Thilakarathne

Inst. of Coastal Systems

Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon Geesthacht, Germany

I am a research associate at the Institute for Coastal Systems, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon with a more specific interest in nearshore morphodynamics under storm conditions. Research work includes effect-oriented prediction of extreme events on the coast, beach recovery after erosion cases, and machine learning in coastal dynamics.

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news

May 1, 2024	Started working as a research associate at Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Sep 15, 2023	PhD graduation
Jun 29, 2023	Research symposium, Abashiri, Hokkaido

selected publications

CFT

Wave storm dynamics and clustering, and their impacts on beach erosion

Salika Thilakarathne, Hesamodin Enayatighadikolaei, Md Shofiqul Islam, and 3 more authors

Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures, Sep 2025

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@article{thilakarathne_wave_2025,
  title = {Wave storm dynamics and clustering, and their impacts on beach erosion},
  author = {Thilakarathne, Salika and Enayatighadikolaei, Hesamodin and Islam, Md Shofiqul and Suzuki, Takayuki and Mäll, Martin and Weisse, Ralf},
  journal = {Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures},
  year = {2025},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.1017/cft.2025.10012},
}

Identifying key morphometrics to post-storm beach recovery through explainable AI

Salika Thilakarathne, Takayuki Suzuki, Martin Mäll, and 1 more author

Scientific Reports, Jun 2024

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@article{thilakarathne_identifying_2024,
  title = {Identifying key morphometrics to post-storm beach recovery through explainable AI},
  author = {Thilakarathne, Salika and Suzuki, Takayuki and Mäll, Martin and Banno, Masayuki},
  journal = {Scientific Reports},
  year = {2024},
  month = jun,
  doi = {10.1038/s41598-024-64023-6},
}

Physical modeling of sandbar dynamics to correlate wave-induced pore pressure gradient, sediment concentration, and bed-level erosion

Md Shofiqul Islam, Takayuki Suzuki, and Salika Thilakarathne

Ocean Engineering, Sep 2024

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@article{islam_physical_2024,
  title = {Physical modeling of sandbar dynamics to correlate wave-induced pore pressure gradient, sediment concentration, and bed-level erosion},
  author = {Islam, Md Shofiqul and Suzuki, Takayuki and Thilakarathne, Salika},
  journal = {Ocean Engineering},
  year = {2024},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.118161},
}