Carlos Moffat received a B.S. in Marine Biology from the University of Concepción, Chile, and a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He later held an assistant professor position at the University of Concepción (Chile) and was a research oceanographer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Since early 2016, he has held a faculty position at the School of Marine Science and Policy at the University of Delaware, United States.
His research interests span a range of problems in Coastal Physical Oceanography, including understanding the role the ocean plays in glacier retreat, the dynamics of river discharge to the continental shelf, and physical-biological interactions.