Dr Simbi Hatchard
Job: Senior Model Developer
Employer: Fathom
PhD Thesis: Modelling the Viability of Small Hydroelectric Power on the Zambezi Basin
PhD Supervisors: Professor Paul Bates, Dr Francesca Pianosi and Dr Sam Williamson
Simbi works for Fathom as a Senior Model Developer.
Simbi was a WISE CDT student at the University of Bristol between 2016-21. He successfully defended his PhD thesis on ‘Modelling the Viability of Small Hydroelectric Power on the Zambezi Basin’ in November 2021.
Prior to joining the WISE CDT Simbi worked as a Graduate Engineer for WSP Group, working in Development Planning, where he completed Transport Assessments, junction designs and transport systems modelling. In 2014 he joined WYG Group as a Flood Risk and Drainage Engineer, completing Flood Risk Assessments, drainage surveys and undertaking drainage design and modelling for private housing developments.
Simbi was awarded a BSc in Physics from the Warwick University in 2009, and completed an MSc in Civil Engineering at the University of Southampton in 2011. For his MSc dissertation, Simbi undertook an investigation into modelling the operation of Waste Stabilisation Ponds using software originally developed to study the evolution of water quality in large water bodies, such as lakes and reservoirs.
Research Interests
- Water–energy–food nexus
- Sustainable development
- Large scale hydrodynamic modelling
- Climate change
- Hydropower
- Remote sensing in data sparse regions.
