Andrew Smith
COO – Business ManagementAndrew is one of the co-founders and directors at Fathom. He completed a PhD under Professor Paul Bates, and it was whilst undertaking his PhD that the idea of founding a company first emerged.
This quickly led to a change in his research focus, from climate change impact studies, to the development of large scale flood models, leading to numerous publications in this field.
Since completing his PhD in 2014, Andrew undertook a post-doctoral research position at the University of Bristol before becoming COO at Fathom full-time in 2016.