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鈥Dr. Thomas Wahl is an Associate Professor at the 海角直播. He is affiliated with the 听补苍诲听聽and he is also a core member of the聽聽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 helped shaping a new and active research field. He is an author of interdisciplinary publications in top professional journals, including two in聽Nature Communications, 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 海角直播 of Siegen in Germany. After a short postdoc with the interdisciplinary research center 鈥淪haping the Future鈥 at the 海角直播 of Siegen he took聽a postdoc position at the College of Marine Science at the 海角直播 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 海角直播 of Southampton, UK.