Research output per year
Research output per year
CBE, B.Sc.(Soton), Ph.D.(Bristol), FRS
BS8 1SS
Paul is a hydrologist by background, a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the American Geophysical Union, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder and in 2019 was awarded a CBE for services to flood risk management. In 2024 he was awarded the John Dalton medal by the European Geosciences Union. He is also Chairman of the flood risk analytics company Fathom (www.fathom.global). For further details see his Wikipedia entry.
He has widespread research interests in risk, resilience, uncertainty, governance and decision-making in relation to natural hazards and global water issues. He is a double recipient of the Lloyd's of London Science of Risk prize and in 2015 he was awarded a 50th Anniversary Prize for Economic Impact by the UK's Natural Environment Research Council. He has published over 230 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, and these were cited over 2000 times in 2020 according to the ISI Web of Knowledge. He currently has a H-index of 115 on Google Scholar. For a full publication list see here.
Paul's main science contribution has been to improve the prediction of flood inundation through the development of new computer models, the use of data from new airborne, satellite and ground sensors and through the better characterization of risk and uncertainty. For videos of Paul talking about his research see here and here.
He has held Visiting Scientist positions at Princeton University, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Laboratoire National d'Hydraulique, Paris, the EU Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
He also undertakes significant International collaboration, including work with the French National Space Agency (CNES), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia in Brazil, as well as numerous universities in the US, Europe and Africa.
Chairman, Fathom
30 Nov 0001 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Bates, P. D. (Principal Investigator)
1/09/10 → 1/09/14
Project: Research
Sharifian, M. K. (Creator), Kesserwani, G. (Creator), Chowdhury, A. A. (Creator), Neal, J. (Creator) & Bates, P. (Creator), Zenodo, 26 Jul 2022
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6907286, https://zenodo.org/record/6907286
Dataset
Bates, P. (Creator), Liu, Y. (Creator) & Neal, J. (Contributor), University of Bristol, 11 Feb 2022
DOI: 10.5523/bris.3c1l2q7u1x14a262m6z7hh0c4r, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/3c1l2q7u1x14a262m6z7hh0c4r
Dataset
Lewis, E. (Creator), Quinn, N. (Creator), Blenkinsop, S. (Creator), Fowler, H. J. (Creator), Freer, J. (Creator), Tanguy, M. (Creator), Hitt, O. (Creator), Coxon, G. (Creator), Bates, P. (Creator), Woods, R. (Creator), Fry, M. (Creator), Chevuturi, A. (Creator), Swain, O. (Creator), White, S. M. (Creator) & Tanguy, M. (Contributor), NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre, 2022
DOI: 10.5285/fc9423d6-3d54-467f-bb2b-fc7357a3941f, https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/fc9423d6-3d54-467f-bb2b-fc7357a3941f
Dataset
Bates, P. D. (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Bates, P. D. (Recipient), 29 Nov 2012
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Bamber, J. L. (Contributor), Vishwakarma, B. D. (Speaker), Bates, P. D. (Contributor), Sneeuw, N. (Contributor) & Westaway, R. M. (Contributor)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion
Vishwakarma, B. D. (Speaker), Bates, P. D. (Contributor), Sneeuw, N. (Contributor), Westaway, R. M. (Contributor) & Bamber, J. L. (Contributor)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion
Vishwakarma, B. D. (Contributor), Bates, P. D. (Contributor), Sneeuw, N. (Contributor), Westaway, R. M. (Contributor) & Bamber, J. L. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion