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Charles Nyce, PhD.

Robert L. Atkins Associate Professor of Risk Management & Insurance

Florida State University


Charles Nyce is the Robert L. Atkins Associate Professor of Risk Management and Insurance at Florida State University (FSU). He was an assistant professor at FSU from 2012 through 2018.  He previously served as the Associate Director of the Florida Catastrophic Storm Risk Management Center (the Center) from 2009 through 2012.  

His main research areas are catastrophic risk pricing/financing and traffic safety/auto insurance.  He joined the Center in 2009 after serving as Senior Director of Knowledge Resources for the American Institute for CPCU.  He has authored numerous articles on a variety of risk management and insurance topics, including the relationship between insurance premiums and housing values, mitigation, demand for insurance, distracted driving, and catastrophic risk financing.  He has his PhD from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and has taught risk management and insurance at LaSalle University, the University of Hartford, and the University of Georgia.