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Biography
βDr. Thomas Wahl is an Associate Professor at the ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½. He is affiliated with the Μύ²Ή²Τ»εΜύΒ and he is also a core member of theΒ Β 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 inΒ 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 University of Siegen in Germany. After a short postdoc with the interdisciplinary research center βShaping the Futureβ at the University of Siegen he tookΒ 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 ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½, he was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow of the European Union in Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton, UK.
