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Previous Group Members<\/h2>\n

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Professor Ellie Highwood,\u00a0Professor in Climate Physics<\/b><\/h3>\n

Ellie left our group in 2019 to set up her own enterprises in Diversity and Inclusion (Equasense<\/a>) and Personal Coaching (Send Them Soaring<\/a>). Ellie is now a visiting professor at the Department.<\/p>\n

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Steven Abel<\/h3>\n

PhD Student, “The radiative properties and direct effect of Southern African biomass burning aerosols”<\/p>\n

Steve successfully defended his thesis in October 2004 and now works at the UK Met Office in Exeter.<\/p>\n

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Duncan Ackerley<\/h3>\n

PDRA “Dust Outflow and Deposition to the Ocean (DODO)”<\/p>\n

Having completed his PhD and a 2 year Postdoc position in the group, Duncan moved to work as a regional climate scientist at NIWA in Wellington, NZ.<\/p>\n

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Michelle Cain<\/h3>\n

PhD Student, “Transport and processing of chemicals and aerosols in the West African monsoon region”<\/p>\n

Michelle gained her doctorate in 2009 and moved to a PDRA on the RONOCO project at Cambridge University.<\/p>\n

Jeff Cao<\/h3>\n

Jeff worked on the SWAAMI (South West Asian Aerosol Monsoon Interactions) project. Jeff has returned to China to pursue his research career.<\/p>\n

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Nicky Chalmers<\/h3>\n

Following a PDRA on the global radiative effects of aerosols using satellite retrievals, Nicky now works at the UK Met Office in Exeter.<\/p>\n

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Jolene Cook<\/h3>\n

PhD Student,\u00a0“The radiative properties of aerosol over the Northern Mediterranean.”<\/p>\n

Jolene successfully defended her thesis in November 2007 and moved to a position in the radiation group before moving into climate science policy.<\/p>\n

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Dr Will Davies<\/h3>\n

PDRA, CAMS project: Producing quantitative estimates of the radiative forcing of greenhouse gasses and aerosols with respect to pre-industrial times
\nCLARIFY project: Assessing version GA7.1 of HadGEM3, constraining the model using observations from the CLARIFY field campaign<\/p>\n

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Dr Jon Elsey<\/h3>\n

Metrology for Aerosol OPtical Properties (MAPP) Project<\/p>\n

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Anna Esteve<\/h3>\n

PDRA,The radiative impact of aerosols: linking measurements and models<\/p>\n

Anna worked in the group as part of a Spanish National Fellowship, and now works as a lecturer at the University of Valencia.<\/p>\n

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Angus Ferraro<\/h3>\n

PhD Student, “Atmospheric responses to geoengineering in the stratosphere”\u00a0(co-supervised by Dr Andrew Charlton-Perez<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Angus successfully completed his Viva in the group and is now working at the University of Exeter.<\/p>\n

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Dr Ella Gilbert<\/h3>\n

Advancing the Science for Aviation and Climate (ACACIA)<\/p>\n

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Liang Guo<\/h3>\n

PDRA,\u00a0The impact of aerosol on the Indian Monsoon<\/p>\n

Liang now works in NCAS in the Meteorology Department.<\/p>\n

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Bethan Harris<\/h3>\n

PhD Student,\u00a0“Effect of supervolcanoes on climate”<\/p>\n

Bethan successfully gained her PhD in 2009, worked in the group on the ADIENT project for 1 year and moved to work as a researcher on climate related programmes at the BBC. Bethan now works in atmospheric science data management.<\/p>\n

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Ross Herbert <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ross worked on the CLARIFY (Cloud and\u00a0Aerosols Radiative Impact and Forcing) and SWAAMI (South West Asian Aerosol Monsoon Interactions) projects. Ross is now a PDRA at the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n

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Madhavi Karumudi<\/h3>\n

PDRA, co-ordinator for\u00a0DIAC-UKAAN\u00a0and also investigated aerosol characteristics and global atmospheric electrical activity at Reading using measurements of the atmospheric electric field and aerosol mass concentration.<\/p>\n

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Dhirendra Kumar<\/h3>\n

Dhirendra worked on the DAHLIA<\/a> project, examining the role of model resolution and convective representation on dust uplift in East Asia, and moved to a position working with Tristan Quaife in the department.<\/p>\n

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Michael Lai<\/h3>\n

PhD student, Understanding the impact of Anthropogenic aerosol emissions on north atlantic mulidecadal variability, supervised by Dr Laura Wilcox<\/a><\/p>\n

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Eunice Lo<\/h3>\n

PhD Student,\u00a0“The effects and effectiveness of stratospheric aerosol injection”<\/p>\n

Eunice completed her PhD in 2017 and now works at the University of Bristol.<\/p>\n

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James Mollard<\/h3>\n

James undertook his PhD on the properties of black carbon aerosol in climate models, followed by a PDRA working on aerosol satellite validation over central western Africa for the DACCIWA (Dynamics-aerosol-chemistry-cloud interactions in West Africa) project. James is now a research scientist in NCAS in the Department.<\/p>\n

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Megan Northway<\/h3>\n

Megan worked on the ADIENT project which is quantifying aerosol optical properties around the UK and across EUROPE. She now lives in Japan with her family.<\/p>\n

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Andrew Prata<\/h3>\n

Andrew worked on developing a proof-of-concept tool that will enable the calculation of along-flight volcanic ash dosage with Dr Helen Dacre<\/a>. Andrew now works at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre.<\/p>\n

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Natalie Ratcliffe<\/a><\/h3>\n

PhD student using aircraft observations of mineral dust to improve understanding and modelling of dust transport and deposition processes, supervised by Dr Claire Ryder<\/a> and Prof Nicolas Bellouin<\/a><\/p>\n

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Steve Rumbold<\/h3>\n

Steve worked on the APPRAISE project developing and tested a benchmark radiative transfer model for the UK Atmospheric Aerosol community. He now works at the Met Office in Exeter.<\/p>\n

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Nicola Stuber<\/h3>\n

Nicola worked on the EU FP6 project, QUANTIFY, using the Unified Model to look at the climate effect of aerosols. She was also a member of the Radiation and Climate Processes group. Nicola left in 2010 for new adventures!<\/p>\n

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Dr Gillian Thornhill<\/a><\/h3>\n

Gill worked on the CRESCENDO project, understanding aerosols and chemically reactive gases within CMIP6 and climate change. Also a PDRA working on the InHALE<\/a> project, looking at the climate impacts of halocarbons emitted into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

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Julia Tindall<\/h3>\n

PhD student, “The tropical substratosphere”<\/p>\n

Julia successfully defended her thesis in February 2004 and is now working at the University of Bristol.<\/p>\n

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Velle Toll<\/h3>\n

Velle worked on the VOLCCANO (VOLcanoes for Constraining Cloud Aerosol iNteractiOns) project.<\/p>\n

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Chris Webber<\/h3>\n

PhD Student,\u00a0“Linking pollution, meteorology and climate change”<\/p>\n

After completing his PhD in 2017, Chris moved to a job at the University of Hertfordshire in the Department of Physics and Mathematics.<\/p>\n

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Margaret Woodage<\/h3>\n

Margaret worked on the SWAMMA (Saharan West African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses) project.<\/p>\n

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Dr Alcide Zhao<\/h3>\n

Alcide worked on the DAHLIA<\/a> project, examining climate simulations of dust in East Asia. He now works in NCAS on the WISHBONE (Wider impacts of Subpolar North Atlantic decadal variability on the ocean and atmosphere) project.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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