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Biography
Dr. Thomas Wahl is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida. He is affiliated with the Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering Department and National Center for Integrated Coastal Research (UCF Coastal) and he is also a core member of the Sustainable Coastal Systems Cluster.
His work on compound flooding from storm surges and precipitation along the U.S. coast, summarized in a seminal paper published with Nature Climate Change helped shaping a new and active research field. He is an author of interdisciplinary publications in top professional journals, including two in Nature Communications and one in Nature Climate Change, spanning the areas of oceanography, hydrology, statistical modelling and coastal engineering.
He obtained a Diploma (UNI) in 2007 and PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in 2012 in Civil Engineering at the University of Siegen in Germany. After a short postdoc with the interdisciplinary research center “Shaping the Future” at the University of Siegen he took a postdoc position at the College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida, supported by a fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Prior to coming to UCF, he was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow of the European Union in Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton, UK.
