Robert Jane, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist at The Water Institute working within the Coastal and Compound Flood Risk Department. In his role, Robert reviews and develops code for statistical pre- and post-processing, and assists in developing a framework for generating non-tropical events for the Louisiana Watershed Initiative Coastwide Compound Flood Modeling. In addition, he is developing hazard annual exceedance probability (AEP) curves for the City of Jacksonville and LWI Coastwide Compound Flood Modeling.

Robert is concurrently a Research Assistant Professor of coastal risks and engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering at the University of Central Florida, a position he has held for the past four years. He also holds a secondary joint appointment with the National Center for Integrated Coastal Research at UCF. Prior to this role, he spent three years at UCF as a postdoctoral scholar. Robert’s research includes spans compound flooding, the fragility and performance of flood defense infrastructure and multidisciplinary research into water quality and the response of aquatic ecosystems to anthropogenic and climatic drivers. As a principal investigator or co-PI, he has contributed to initiatives addressing coastal issues in south Florida and elsewhere, supported by more than $1.1 million in grant funding.

Robert graduated from the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom with a bachelor’s in mathematics and statistics. He earned his PH.D. in civil engineering from the same institution in collaboration with HR Wallingford. Following completion of his doctorate Robert served as a research fellow in data science and statistics at the University of Plymouth for six months.