CV

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Mar 2023 - present: Senior postdoctoral research assistant, Oxford University.

• Employed under the Horizon Europe project "EERIE".

• The theme of EERIE is how including an eddy-resolving ocean to a coupled GCM impacts the representation of the historical climate and future projections.

• I'll be examining ocean-atmosphere coupling and links with decadal predictability.

Jan 2020- Feb 2023: Thomas Phillips and Jocelyn Keene Junior Research Fellowship, Jesus College, Oxford University.

• Fully funded, with complete intellectual independence.

• Research focus: calibrating a fully stochastic version of the EC-Earth3 climate model; the impact of stochastic schemes on Arctic-midlatitude teleconnections; changes to transient climate feedbacks, especially cloud related ones, when adding stochasticity.

• 7 published papers (3 as lead author, 4 as co-author). 1 paper in reviewer, accepted subject to minor revisions.

2016-2019: Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Climate Science - Oxford University. Funded by the Horizon 2020 Project “PRIMAVERA”. Line manager: Professor Tim Palmer.

• Research focus: relative benefits of increased horizontal model resolution vs the inclusion of stochastic schemes; impact of stochastic schemes on the global energy budget and mean state.

• 5 published papers (lead author on all 5).

EDUCATION

2011-2015: DPhil in Mathematics - Oxford University. Supervisor: Dr. Jochen Koenigsmann.

• Thesis title: “Galois Groups and Anabelian Reconstruction”.

2007-2011: MMath Masters in Mathematics (1st Class) - Oxford University.

SELECTED INVITED TALKS

2023: Departmental Seminar, Department of Geophysics, University of Leeds

2022: Royal Academy Science Council conference on UK pathways to net-zero.

2022: Departmental Seminar, Department of Physics, Imperial College (London).

2021: AGU Fall Meeting session: “When We Don't Know Everything: Stochastic Approaches to Predicting and Understanding the Earth System".

2021: The One World in Math seminar series.

2021: The annual EC-Earth Meeting.

2021: SIAM 2021 Mathematics of Planet Earth Conference.

2020: Bristol Research Initiative for the Dynamic Global Environment seminar, Bristol University.

2020: Geophysical and Environmental Processes seminar, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University.

2020: SIAM 2020 Mathematics of Planet Earth Conference.

2020: Departmental seminar, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading.

SELECTED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

2023: IUGG 2024: Oral presentation

2020: European Geosciences Union Assembly: virtual PICO presentation.

2019: PEG Meeting on Blocking and Storm Tracks, University of Reading: oral presentation.

2018: The 4th UK Climate Dynamics Workshop: oral presentation.

2018: Second International Conference on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction, NCAR, Colorado: oral presentation.

2017: The Annual EC-Earth Meeting: oral presentation.

2014: Valuation Theory Conference, Oberwolfach, Germany: oral presentation.

FUNDING AWARDED

2023: American Mathematical Society sponsored Mathematics Research Communities summer school. I am a leading organiser of an AMS MRC to be held in the summer of 2024, to engage early career researchers in the use of methods from topological data analysis to study climate science. For details: https://www.ams.org/programs/research-communities/2024MRC-ClimateScience

2021: Met Office Academic Partnership Research Experience Placement Scheme. I was funded 2500 GBP to fund one summer student in 2021, who worked on analysing the reliability of seasonal forecasts of the European winter jet stream.

2020: Jesus College Major Research Grant. I was awarded 3500 GBP to fund an extended visit to the National Centre of Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, to carry out collaborative work on stochastic climate modelling. The visit took place in April 2022.

SELECTED TEACHING AND SUPERVISION 

2023/24: Co-supervision of two postdoctoral research assistants. I am currently co-supervising two PDRA’s along with Prof. Hannah Christensen, as part of the EERIE project.

2021: Summer student supervisor (co-supervised with a colleague). The student successfully completed a project on analysing how the speed of the North Atlantic jet stream influences the reliability of seasonal forecasts of European winter weather.

2018/19: Co-supervisor of a masters student. The student successfully completed a project comparing the benefits of increased resolution vs stochastic parameterizations on the representation of multimodality in the North Atlantic winter jet stream, using the EC-Earth3 climate model.

2014-2016: Full Stipendiary Lectureship in Pure Mathematics at Pembroke College. I tutored first and second year mathematicians, conducted admissions interviews and provided pastoral care.

2013: Instructor for the Williams-Exeter Exchange Program. I organized and supervised a term-long tutorial course in 2013 on Logic and Set Theory, including setting problem sheets and a final project.

2013: Tutor on the Waynflete Studies Program, Magdalen College School.

OUTREACH

• Talk: climate science for kids (Jesus College alumni event, 2021)

• Zoom seminar series for the public: Destination Earth (2023).

• Public event: lead organiser of Earth Day 2023 public event at Oxford Physics Department (April 2023).

• Climate Science outreach event for Blackbird Leys (underprivileged area) after-school club (2024).

• Currently organising Earth Day 2024.

OTHER SERVICE

• Organizer of 2023 climate outreach event: "Destination: Earth".

• Representative on the Oxford Physics Postdoctoral Liaison Committee, which included contributions to the department's ED&I efforts (2020-present).

• Group meeting organiser for the Predictability Group Meetings at the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics subdepartment (AOPP), Oxford (2020-present).

• Peer reviewer for the scientific journals Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Climate Dynamics, Science Advances and QJRMS.