Thomas B. Wild

Dr. Thomas B. Wild is an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Maryland's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, with a joint appointment at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Joint Global Change Research Institute. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Sustainability (CGS) and affiliated with the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC). His research focuses on complex systems challenges at the intersection of climate, energy, water, and socioeconomic systems, with emphasis on decarbonization pathways and the food-energy-water nexus.

Dr. Wild holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland and M.S./Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University. He leads the Wild Research Group, which develops integrated assessment models to address multi-sector dynamics and sustainable infrastructure planning. Notable projects include NSF-funded work on regional FEW nexus planning in Latin America and IDB-supported decarbonization pathways studies in Colombia.

Research Interests:

• Deep decarbonization strategies
• Hydrologic and environmental systems analysis
• Multi-sector dynamics modeling
• Climate-land-energy-water interactions
• Global sustainability policy

Awards:

• 2020 Quentin Martin Best Practice-Oriented Paper Award
• NSF INFEWS Award (2019)
• IDB grants for decarbonization and FEW nexus research

Advising & Grants: Supervised students include Silvia da Silva (Ph.D. candidate) and Andrew Miller (visiting scholar). Active grants total over $3M from NSF, IDB, and U.S. Department of Energy. Key collaborations involve Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Inter-American Development Bank.

Labs/Teams: Leads the Wild Research Group's Complex Systems Lab, focusing on decision-relevant tools for integrated systems analysis. Active in MultiSector Dynamics (MSD) working groups and Global Change Intersectoral Modeling System (GCIMS) initiatives.