Current position
In February 2024 I joined JBA Consulting as a Senior Atmospheric Scientist, where I work as part of their Weather and Climate team.
Freelance work
Between September 2023 and January 2024 I worked as a freelance data scientist. I spent most of that time working for the climate data and analytics company Earthena AI, where I helped develop production-ready code, methodologies and documentation to ingest, preprocess and transform climate-focused datasets; this work has focused on natural hazards such as river flooding and wildfire.
Industry
From autumn 2021 to summer 2023 I worked as a climate scientist at Cervest, a climate tech startup that unfortunately shut down operations in summer 2023. My key responsibilities involved developing and implementing products offering high-resolution climate risk information for hazards including extreme wind and extreme rainfall, using datasets such as CMIP6, CORDEX and ERA5. As part of this role I pioneered our validation methodology for climate hazard products, developed production-ready code in large data pipelines alongside data scientists and engineers, and communicated high-level ideas and key results within the company.
Academia
From spring 2017 to summer 2021 I worked as a postdoctoral research assistant at the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science at the University of Leeds. I was involved in several projects investigating high-impact weather in Southeast Asia alongside scientists from other UK universities (University of Reading, University of East Anglia), the Met Office and meteorological agencies across Southeast Asia including PAGASA (Philippines) and BMKG (Indonesia).
I first worked on a project to better understand the rapid intensification of tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific, using high-resolution numerical model data. A subsequent project explored the fundamental dynamics of a storm system called the Borneo vortex, which frequently brings extreme rainfall to the Maritime Continent. The key papers from these projects are found here and here.
PhD
In October 2016 I completed my PhD at the University of Manchester, where I was supervised by David Schultz and Geraint Vaughan. My PhD, “The 23–26 September 2012 U.K. Floods: Influence of Diabatic Process and Upper-Level Forcing on Cyclone Development”, used Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model simulations to investigate the intensification mechanisms of a midlatitude cyclone responsible for severe flooding across the UK. We demonstrated the sensitivity of cyclone structure and intensity to process such as cloud microphysical heating and the upper-level wind field. The two published papers containing the key conclusions can be found here and here.
Miscellaneous
During my time as a postdoc at the University of Leeds, I participated in the Met Office-funded Forecaster Training In Southeast Asia (FORTIS) project. I prepared and delivered lecture and practical material for workshops on tropical meteorology in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines) and at the Met Office. These week-long workshops, which were targeted at both forecasters and scientists, covered topics including tropical cyclones, ensemble weather forecasting and the Madden-Julian Oscillation.
- Indonesia (BMKG, Jakarta) March 2019
- Philippines (PAGASA, Manila) May 2019
- Malaysia (MetMalaysia, Kuala Lumpur), September 2019
- U.K. (Met Office, Exeter), February 2020