Who we are

Research in DARC is spread across the Department of Meteorology and the Department of Mathematics in the School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences.

Faculty Funded Staff	MetOffice@Reading DA Staff
Jochen Broecker (Mathematics & Meteorology) Sarah Dance (Meteorology & Mathematics; NCEO Director of Data Assimilation; Co-director of DARC) Keith Haines (Meteorology) Amos Lawless (Meteorology & Mathematics; NCEO Head of Data Assimilation Methodology; Co-director of DARC) Nancy Nichols (Meteorology & Mathematics) Roland Potthast (Mathematics; also at DWD) Tristan Quaife (Meteorology)	Cristina Charlton-Perez Lee Hawkness-Smith Graeme Kelly Tsz Yan Leung Dingmin Li Zhihong Li David Simonin Chris Thomas Jo Waller
Research Funded Staff	Research Students
Ross Bannister (NCEO) Yumeng Chen (NCEO) Natalie Douglas Alison Fowler (NCEO) Guannan Hu Matthew Lang (SPATE) Ivo Pasmans (SASIP) Anne Pein Mart Ratas (CUNDA) Shaerdan Shataer Polly Smith (SASIP) Maria Valdivieso da Costa Rémy Vandaele (DARE)	Daniel Ayers Simon Driscoll Devon Francis Ieuan Higgs Helen Hooker Joshua Lee Gwyneth Matthews Laura Risley Harriet Turner Anne Walter

Former members

Mel Ades (now at ECMWF), Javier Amezcua (now at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico), Veronica Asenek, Laura Baker, Sue Ballard, Gillian Baxter, Zak Bell, Caroline Boess, Bertran Bonan, Philip Browne (now at ECMWF), Roger Brugge, Nicholas Byrne (now at Cervest), Alberto Carrassi (now at University of Bologna), Nachiketa Chakraborty (now at Coventry University), Elizabeth Cooper (now at CEH), Ieva Daužickaitė, Seonaid Dey (now at CEH), Rossana Dragani (now at ECMWF), Martin Ehrendorfer, Amsalework Ejigu, Adam El-Said, Vincent Faure, Janet Fillingham (now at Maths of Planet Earth), Steven Fletcher (now at CIRA), Catherine Gaffard, Javier Garcia-Pintado (now at Universtiy of Bremen), Alan Geer (now at ECMWF), Gernot Geppert (now at DWD), Michael Goodliff (CIRA), Stephen Haben, Katherine Howes, Andrea Kaiser-Weiss (now at DWD), David Katz, Maha Kaouri, Femi Kolade, William Lahoz, Peter Jan van Leeuwen (now at University of Colorado), David Livings, Magdalena Lucini, Laura Mansfield, Matthew Martin (now at Met Office), Stefano Migliorini (now at Met Office), Andrew Mirza, Alex Moodey, Matthew Ng, Alan O’Neill, Dale Partridge, Africa Perianez, Ruth Petrie (now at Gallagher Re), Carole Peubey (now at ECMWF), Ewan Pinnington (now at Cervest), Caroline Poulsen, Cristina Prates (now at ECMWF), Manual Pulido, Haonan Ren, Susan Rennie (now at CAWCR, Australia), Flavia Rodrigues, Ian Roulstone (now at Uni. Surrey), Ali Rudd (now at CEH), Roel Stappers, Vladimir Stepano, Laura Stewart, Zhivko Stoyanov, Hamish Struthers, David Sursham, Sean Swarbrick, Jemima Tabeart (now at Uni. Edinburgh), Gillian Thornhill, Elske Van Der Vaart, Sanita Vetra-Carvalho (now at Spire), Dani Volpi (based at the IC3, Barcelona), Nicholas Williams (now at Bjerkness Centre for Climate Change, Norway), Marek Wlasak (now at Met Office), Mengbin Zhu