Thom is a PhD researcher in coastal and estuarine modelling at the School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University. In Blueadapt, Thom is developing high-resolution Delft3D hydrodynamic and water-quality models to parameterise viral pathogen sensitivity to key environmental drivers (e.g. temperature, salinity and UV radiation) and integrate these behaviours into risk-based predictive frameworks. By combining field surveys, remote-sensing data and climate projections, Thom aims to investigate how environmental variability shapes pathogen dispersal and persistence from river to coast. Thom applies physical-modelling approaches to a broad spectrum of coastal and estuarine processes, including viral dispersal, water-quality health risk mapping, compound flooding events, morphodynamics and climate-change impacts. His studies span realistic reconstructions of past and future conditions and hypothetical interventions to assess their effects on pathogen transport, sediment dynamics and ecosystem health. Thom is particularly focused on characterising natural variability, extreme compound events and the implications of climate change for pathogen dynamics and coastal community resilience.