About

Thomas is a Schmidt AI in Science fellow and Senior Research Associated in the Department of Engineering Science. He lectures on information engineering, fluid mechanics, and natural hazards. He joined New College as the W.W Spooner Junior Research Fellow in 2025. He graduated from Bates College with a degree in Physics and Mathematics in 2022. He joined the Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Machine Learning research groups at the University of Oxford in 2022, funded by the Department of Engineering, and completed his DPhil in 2025. For his DPhil work, he won the Osborne Reynolds prize for the best UK doctorate in fluid mechanics and went on to win the Da Vinci prize for the best European doctorate in fluid mechanics.

He leads the Agile Sprint research project on improving flood resilience in the Thames Estuary. This work looks to operationalize his scientific machine learning approach to flood forecasting, RTide, for use by the UK government.