About
I’m a Senior Research Scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, based at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading. I’m interested in climate variability and high-impact weather.
I use observational data and high-resolution global climate models to study tropical and midlatitude storms—their frequency, tracks, and structures; how they intensify and interact with the oceans; and their impacts. I’m particularly interested in what we can learn from state-of-the-art climate models about how climate change will reshape storm risk.
Since 2016, I’ve received support from four major national and international programmes: PRIMAVERA, ACSIS, nextGEMS, and REPRESA. I’m part of a UK–US team that secured funding for Huracán, a four-year research programme on tropical storm risk beyond the tropics, and I’m the programme’s Project Manager. I consult for and collaborate with the insurance and hydrocarbon sectors on tropical storm risk, and I help run the biennial NCAS Climate Modelling Summer School.
Previously, I read geology at the University of Durham and undertook postgraduate research in environmental science, palaeoclimatology, and atmospheric science. My PhD combined a study of atmospheric moisture transport to East Asia with analysis of stable water isotope data to interpret reconstructions of past monsoon variability. I became a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 2011 and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society in 2017.
Career
2025–
Senior Research Scientist
2016–2024
Research Scientist
National Centre for Atmospheric Science and Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
2012 & 2014
Visiting Researcher
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich)
(Institut für Atmosphäre und Klima, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
2011–2015
Ph.D.
Sir Kingsley Dunham Studentship
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Durham
Research interests
- Tropical, post-tropical and midlatitude cyclones
- Cyclone air-sea interactions
- North Atlantic climate variability and extremes
- Atmospheric circulation and jet streams
- Climate risk assessment
- Stable water isotopes and palaeoclimate
- Science communication