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Chief Scientific Advisor

Dr Jeff Neal

Jeff Neal is Professor of Hydrology and Turing Fellow at the University of Bristol, as well as a Founder and the Chief Scientific Officer at Fathom.

He is an expert in the development of hydraulic models for inundation prediction across a range of scales and applications. His research has been funded by organisations including the NERC, EU, Google, Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust.

Jeff has >50 publications in internationally recognised scientific journals and several papers with >100 citations. He is also an editor of the journal Geoscientific model development.

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Research Paper

Exposure to flooding in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

  • 11/08/2024
Research Paper

Mapping vulnerability to climate-related hazards to inform local authority action

A composite image made up of four proof-of-concept application screenshots (presented only for display purposes) with example LSOAs highlighted. These are given as examples of the tool developed.
  • 09/29/2024
Research Paper

A 30 m global flood inundation model for any climate scenario

Global Flood Map research paper graph - Average annual flood over time diagram
  • 08/19/2024
Research Paper

Impact of soil moisture and rainfall on future urban flood

Multi-model ensemble projections depict annual average rainfall volume alongside corresponding accumulated flood volume and volumetric moisture content at three epochs: the past (1980–2000), present (2020–2040), and future (2060–2080)
  • 04/29/2024
Research Paper

Using FABDEM to assess flood risk in the Central Highlands of Vietnam

Flood hazard maps of Kon Tum, Vietnam. Three versions of a global flood model, each with a different underlying elevation dataset, are compared.
  • 02/15/2024
Research Paper

Rainfall-driven flood risk from hurricanes in Puerto Rico under climate change

Flood maps of Puerto Rico from the research paper
  • 02/05/2024
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New UK Space Agency funding for satellite mission data analysis

  • 01/09/2024
Research Paper

Flood defense standard estimation using machine learning

  • 03/24/2023
Research Paper

A climate conditioned catastrophe risk model for UK flooding

  • 03/07/2023
Research Paper

Bare-earth DEM generation from ArcticDEM and its use in flood simulation

  • 02/01/2023

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