Thomas Wahl is an Associate Professor for Coastal Risks and Engineering at the University of Central Florida (UCF), where he is affiliated with the Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering Department and the National Center for Integrated Coastal Research (UCF Coastal). He obtained a Diploma in 2007 and PhD in 2012 in Civil Engineering at the University of Siegen, Germany. Afterwards he became a postdoc at the College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida. Before joining UCF in 2017, he was a Marie Curie Fellow of the European Union at the University of Southampton, UK. He studies changes in coastal sea levels (mean and extreme), ocean waves, and freshwater flows and the associated impacts to support the development of resilient adaptation strategies in the face of uncertainties in future climate projections.