I am an expert in climate feedback processes and their impact on the climate sensitivity, a measure of the magnitude of global climate change in response to external climate forcing. Other areas of interest include understanding how greenhouse gas forcing affects the jet streams and storm tracks, and linking these atmospheric circulation changes to regional climate. To address these problems, my work brings together physical theory, experimental work with global climate models, and analysis of climate observations.
2023– Senior Lecturer (associate professor), Department of Physics, Imperial College London, UK
2018–2023 Lecturer (assistant professor), Grantham Institute & Department of Physics, Imperial College London, UK
2015–2018 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Reading, UK
2010–2015 PhD in Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
2008–2010 MSc in Atmospheric and Climate Sciences (with distinction), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2005–2008 BSc in Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2024 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Physics (£100,000 in research funds)
2018–2022 Imperial College Research Fellowship
2018 Research Output Prize, University of Reading
2017 Early Career Scientist Award at the annual CFMIP conference, Tokyo
2010 Top Scholar Award, University of Washington
2010 ETH Medal (for MSc thesis) and Willi Studer Prize (for best grades in cohort), ETH Zurich
2022–2025 ML4CLOUDS: Machine learning approaches to constrain and understand the role of clouds in climate change, NERC (£329,336, Imperial share)
2020–2024 CIRCULATES: A comprehensive investigation of clouds, circulation and constraints on climate sensitivity, NERC (£518,607, Imperial share)
2020–2023 Asymmetries in ocean heat and carbon uptake, and effects on marine hazards, NERC (£39,046, Imperial share)
Co-editor, Weather and Climate Dynamics and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Steering Committee member for the Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP)