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- Christopher Sampson
Chief Technical Officer
Dr Christopher Sampson
Chris is one of the co-founders and directors at Fathom. He studied an MSci in Physical Geography at the University of Bristol before progressing to an industry-sponsored PhD under Professor Paul Bates. His PhD focused on the development of catastrophe models for flood risk for the (re)insurance market.
It was through this work that the need for better flood risk analytics at the global scale was identified, ultimately leading to the formation of Fathom. Chris now directs our R&D strategy and has guided the development of our modelling framework, becoming known as a leading expert in the field of large-scale flood models through his growing record of academic publications.

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Christopher's recent work
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Research Paper
Use of hydrological models in global stochastic flood modeling

- 01/19/2023
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Research Paper
Social inequalities in climate change-attributed impacts of Hurricane Harvey

- 08/25/2022
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Research Paper
Increased population exposure to Amphan-scale cyclones under future climates

- 05/08/2022
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Research Paper
A 30 m global map of elevation with forests and buildings removed

- 02/04/2022
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Research Paper
Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene

- 02/01/2022
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Event Response
Hurricane Ida, Louisiana 2021

- 01/12/2022
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Insight
Saved by the floodgate: simulating the role of UK flood defences

- 12/09/2021
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Research Paper
An assessment of large-scale flood modelling based on LiDAR data

- 08/23/2021
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New Paper: Attributable human-induced changes in the magnitude of flooding during Hurricane Harvey

- 05/19/2021
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Research Paper
Attributable human-induced changes in the magnitude of flooding in the Houston, Texas region during Hurricane Harvey

- 05/19/2021