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Chairman

Prof Paul Bates

Fathom Chairman and co-founder, Paul is a world leading authority on flood risk, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Scholar. His research career has focused on the development and application of computational flood models, the importance of which led to the award of the prestigious Lloyds Science of Risk Prize in 2012.

To date he has over 220 journal publications and has obtained over £36 million worth of national and international research grants. He holds a Chair in Hydrology at the University of Bristol, was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to flood risk management in 2019, and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2021.

Prof Paul Bates CBE FRS - Fathom Chairman

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Related content and appearances

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Professor Paul Bates awarded John Dalton medal by European Geosciences Union

  • 11/16/2023
Content

Fundamental limits to flood inundation modelling – Nature

  • 07/04/2023
Post

Flood risk and the housing market: an interview with CNBC

  • 06/15/2023
Insight

Explaining SWOT: a satellite survey of oceans and surface waters

  • 05/03/2023
Research Paper

A climate conditioned catastrophe risk model for UK flooding

  • 03/07/2023
Research Paper

Use of hydrological models in global stochastic flood modeling

  • 01/19/2023
Research Paper

Uneven burden of urban flooding

  • 10/31/2022
Research Paper

Urbanizing the floodplain: global changes of imperviousness in flood-prone areas

  • 10/20/2022
Research Paper

Ambitious partnership needed for reliable climate prediction

Global map
  • 06/17/2022
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World’s leading climate scientists call for fundamental improvements in climate change modelling

  • 06/16/2022

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