{"id":125,"date":"2018-04-24T16:26:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T15:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-darc\/?page_id=125"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:19:36","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-darc\/aboutus\/who-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Who we are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research in DARC is spread across the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.met.reading.ac.uk\"> Department of Meteorology<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/maths-and-stats\"> Department of Mathematics<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/smpcs\/\"> School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences.<\/a><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 926px;width: 95.268898%\" border=\"0\" width=\"115.503%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 66px\">\n<td style=\"width: 61.085796%;height: 66px\" width=\"0\">\n<h4>Faculty Funded Staff<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 37.761504%;height: 66px\" width=\"0\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/research\/research-groups\/metofficereading\/\">MetOffice@Reading<\/a> DA Staff<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 416px\">\n<td style=\"width: 61.085796%;height: 416px\" width=\"400\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/eviatar-bach\/\">Eviatar Bach<\/a> (Mathematics &amp; Meteorology)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/maths-and-stats\/staff\/jochen-broecker\">Jochen Broecker<\/a> (Mathematics &amp; Meteorology)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/computer-science\/staff\/dr-nachiketa-chakraborty\">Nachiketa Chakraborty<\/a> (Computer Science)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.met.reading.ac.uk\/~sws01sld\">Sarah Dance<\/a> (Meteorology &amp; Mathematics; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nceo.ac.uk\/\">NCEO<\/a> Director of Data Assimilation; Co-director of DARC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/keith-haines\/\">Keith Haines<\/a> (Meteorology)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/computer-science\/staff\/ieuan-higgs\">Ieuan Higgs<\/a> (Computer Science)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.personal.rdg.ac.uk\/~sms00asl\">Amos Lawless<\/a> (Meteorology &amp; Mathematics; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nceo.ac.uk\/\">NCEO<\/a> Head of Data Assimilation Methodology; Co-director of DARC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceatlas.com\/potthast\">Roland Potthast<\/a> (Mathematics; also at DWD)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.met.reading.ac.uk\/userpages\/db903833.php\">Tristan Quaife<\/a> (Meteorology)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 37.761504%;height: 416px\" width=\"400\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/research\/people\/cristina-charlton-perez\">Cristina Charlton-Perez<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/research\/people\/lee-hawkness-smith\">Lee Hawkness-Smith<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tom Hill<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/research\/people\/graeme-kelly\">Graeme Kelly<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/research\/people\/dingmin-li\">Dingmin Li<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/research\/people\/zhihong-li\">Zhihong Li<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/research\/people\/david-simonin\">David Simonin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/research\/people\/christopher-thomas\">Chris Thomas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/research\/people\/joanne-waller\">Jo Waller<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 66px\">\n<td style=\"width: 61.085796%;height: 66px\" width=\"400\">\n<h4>Research Funded Staff<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 37.761504%;height: 66px\" width=\"400\">\n<h4>Research Students<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 344px\">\n<td style=\"width: 61.085796%;height: 344px\" width=\"400\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.met.reading.ac.uk\/~ross\/\">Ross Bannister<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nceo.ac.uk\">NCEO<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/rishabh-bhatt\/\">Rishabh Bhatt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/yumeng-chen\">Yumeng Chen<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nceo.ac.uk\">NCEO<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/sukun-cheng\/\">Sukun Cheng<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/natalie-douglas\">Natalie Douglas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.met.reading.ac.uk\/~gj901587\/\">Alison Fowler<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nceo.ac.uk\">NCEO<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/guannan-hu\/\">Guannan Hu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.met.reading.ac.uk\/userpages\/smsnicho.php\">Nancy Nichols<\/a> (Meteorology &amp; 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