Research Scientist in tropical climate and high-impact weather (NCAS)

Current Research Projects:

• Scale interactions between large-scale tropical climate drivers and local extreme weather in the tropics (in the current and future climate)
• East African mesoscale convective systems in observations and km-scale models

Research Interests:

• extreme weather in the tropics
• MJO, IOD, and ENSO
• air-sea interactions
• convection and diurnal processes in the tropics

Education:

• PhD, Environmental Sciences - University of East Anglia (2020-2024)
• MSci, Geophysics with a Year Abroad - Imperial College London/University of California, Berkeley (2016-2020)

Teaching

• MTMNUM (Spring 2025 and 2026) - demonstrator

Supervision

• 2025 - Sean Kelley, MSc University of Reading - Lead supervisor: "Using machine learning to predict the intensification and propagation of East African storms"

Professional Activities

• Associate Editor for QJRMS (2026-present)
• FRMetS (2026-present)
• Reviewer for major journals - 6 manuscripts reviewed since Sept 2024 (GRL, J. Climate, Slim, Dyn., etc.)
• Tropical Research Group seminar organiser (2024-2026)
• NCAS Friday seminars organiser (2026 summer-present)
• Sat on the NERC PtF July 2025 submission panel, scoring applications and co-authoring feedback
• Co-led a meeting of the Africa Meteorology and Climate UK community in November 2025 (27 speakers, 40 in-person/>40 online attendees)
• Co-organised NCAS Early Careet symposium (2025, 2026)

Outreach

• ~35 outreach sessions completed in the I'm a scientist programme in 2025/2026
• created outreach videos for the NCAS social media campaign answering kids' questions about the environment:
• How do we predict the weather
• Why is the Earth so close to the sun, but it's still so cold here?
• How and why does the weather change?
• Featured in the NCAS article: In the conversation with 10 women in Atmospheric Science

Links

• Google Scholar
• ORCID

  Last update: 9th July 2026