Speaker Directory Keynote Speakers Prof Tamsin Edwards Professor Tamsin Edwards is a climate scientist specialising in quantifying the uncertainties of climate model predictions, particularly for the ice... read more. Edwards Prof Penny Endersby CBE, FREng, Hon FInstP An outstanding government scientist and inspirational leader who has made significant national and international contributions to the delivery of life-saving... read more. Endersby Prof David Griggs David Griggs is an adjunct Professor of Sustainable Development at Monash University. He was the founder and Director of the... read more. Griggs Regan Mudhar Regan Mudhar (they/them), PhD Researcher, University of ExeterRegan graduated from the University of Bristol with a MSci in physics with... read more. Mudhar Speakers Larry Ger Aragon Larry Ger Aragon is a Joint Ph.D. student from the University of Melbourne and the University of Manchester. His current... read more. Aragon Eviatar Bach Eviatar Bach is joining the University of Reading as a Lecturer in the Department of Meteorology and the Department of... read more. Bach Laura Baker Laura Baker is a senior research scientist in NCAS, based at the University of Reading. Her main research interests include... read more. Baker Prof Emily Black Emily Black is Professor of Terrestrial Processes and Climate at the University of Reading, and a senior scientist at the... read more. Black Hannah Bloomfield Hannah is a Newcastle Academic Track fellow in climate resilient energy systems. She gained her PhD from the University of... read more. Bloomfield Lizzie Collingwood I am a second-year PhD student based at the British Antarctic Survey. My research is focused on the roles of... read more. Collingwood Andrew Creswick Andrew joined the Aviation Applications team in October 2022 and develops probabilistic forecasts of convection and icing hazards for the... read more. Creswick Prof Helen Dacre Helen Dacre is a Professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading and Joint Met Office Chair. Her research interests... read more. Dacre Dr Akshay Deoras Dr Akshay Deoras is a Research Scientist at NCAS/University of Reading. His interests lie in subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) predictions, land-atmosphere interaction,... read more. Deoras Buwen Dong Dr Buwen Dong is a principal research follow at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading. He has... read more. Dong Oliver Driver Oliver Driver is a 2nd year PhD student at Imperial College London, supervised by Dr Edward Gryspeerdt and Dr Marc... read more. Driver Isla Finney Isla Finney is the director of Lake Street, a small weather consultancy firm which aims to help clients from a... read more. Finney David L. A. Flack David did his undergraduate degree at the University of Reading graduating in 2013. Following his undergraduate David completed his PhD... read more. Flack Kevin F. Forbes Kevin F. Forbes, Ph.D., is the Founder of Energy and Environmental Data Science in Ireland. He has over 25 years... read more. Forbes Brian Golding Brian Golding is Met Office Senior Fellow in Weather Impacts, visiting professor at Bristol University and co-chair of the WMO... read more. Golding Suzanne Gray Sue Gray’s research is on dynamics and predictability of extratropical weather systems ranging from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, and... read more. Gray Dr Natalie Harvey Natalie Harvey is a senior research scientist at the University of Reading. She has over ten years postdoctoral research experience... read more. Harvey Ben Harvey Ben Harvey is a senior research scientist in climate and high-impact weather at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science. His... read more. Harvey Nicholas G. Heavens Nicholas G. Heavens works for the geosciences technology company, CGG, and focuses on how full-complexity climate modelling can support risk... read more. Heavens Karen Helliesen Karen Helliesen grew up witnessing climate change's impact on her hometown in Norway, igniting her passion for tackling the climate... read more. Helliesen Peter Hill I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Reading with interests in understanding and improving interactions between clouds, convection,... read more. Hill John Hillier John is fascinated by dependencies between hazards triggered by severe weather events (e.g. windstorms, flooding, cold, landslides), and their impact... read more. Hillier Linda Hirons Linda Hirons has a background in Tropical Meteorology and the drivers of weather and climate variability and change over Africa.... read more. Hirons Wilhelm Hodder PhD Will Hodder is a University of Manchester and University of East Anglia graduate, working as a research engineer in the... read more. Hodder George Horner I am a 4th year PhD student in the Space, Plasma and Climate group at Imperial College London. My research... read more. Horner Sarah Horton Sarah Horton, originally a satellite design engineer and now a private maths tutor, has supported the Tornado and Storm Research... read more. Horton Hette Houtman I achieved an MPhys degree from Durham University in 2022 and am now a PhD student in meteorology at the... read more. Houtman Ben Hutchins While studying Natural Sciences at Lancaster University, I developed an interest in climate science and Meteorology. This led me to... read more. Hutchins Richard W. Jones Richard completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia, focussing on weather and climate in West Antarctica. He joined... read more. Jones Thorsten Kaluza In April 2022 I finished my Phd studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany, with a research focus... read more. Kaluza Mike Kendon Mike works on developing and maintaining the UK’s climate monitoring system and underlying dataset, named HadUK-Grid, based on observations from... read more. Kendon Dhirendra Kumar Dr. Dhirendra Kumar is a Research Scientist at the NCAS, University of Reading, where he leads the development of an... read more. Kumar Alice Lake Alice works as an Applied Scientist at the Met Office, in a joint role between the Post-processing Applications team and... read more. Lake Humphrey William Lean Humphrey has a BSc in Physics from the University of Bristol and PhD in low temperature physics (superconductivity) from... read more. Lean Robert W. Lee Robert is a Research Scientist at the University of Reading focusing on weather and climate dynamics and predictability, particularly on... read more. Lee Joshua Macholl As the main Met Office Scientist in the international REPRESA (REsilience and PREparedness to tropical cyclones in Southern Africa) project,... read more. Macholl Fiona O'Connor Fiona O’Connor is a Science Fellow at the Met Office, and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics &... read more. O'Connor Christopher H. O'Reilly I am a scientist who is interested in the dynamics of the Earth’s climate system. My research broadly focuses on... read more. O'Reilly Georgios Papavasileiou Dr. Georgios Papavasileiou was born in Larissa, Greece and studied Mathematics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.... read more. Papavasileiou Matt Patterson Matt Patterson has a general interest in atmospheric circulation, climate change and prediction on a range of timescales. He completed... read more. Patterson Fatima Pillosu Fatima graduated from the University of Cagliari (Italy) with a degree in Civil Engineering. My main research interest is in... read more. Pillosu Jennifer Pirret Speaker bio to follow ... read more. Pirret Matthew Priestley I am a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and funded by the WTW Research Network. My research focusses... read more. Priestley Kenneth Pryor Kenneth Pryor received an M.S. degree in Meteorology from University of Maryland in 2004 and a PhD in Atmospheric Physics... read more. Pryor Zhaoxia Pu Dr. Zhaoxia Pu is a professor of atmospheric sciences, a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and a fellow of... read more. Pu Raquel Santos Born in Portugal, Raquel Santos is passionate about investigating climatological extremes and their associated impacts. She began her academic journey... read more. Santos Jon Shonk I completed my PhD in meteorology at the University of Reading investigating better ways of representing cloud structure in weather... read more. Shonk Ian Simpson Dr Ian Simpson is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Antarctic Extreme Weather at the University of Lincoln. He completed a... read more. Simpson Thea Stevens Thea is a second-year PhD student studying at the University of Reading (UoR). She is interested in variability, trends and... read more. Stevens Vikki Thompson Vikki is a scientist at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and visiting researcher at the Institute of Environmental Studies, VU... read more. Thompson Anna Tippett Anna Tippett is a 2nd year PhD student at Imperial College London, supervised by Dr Edward Gryspeerdt. She is affiliated... read more. Tippett Catherine Toolan Catherine Toolan is a second year PhD student at the University of Reading, supervised by Laura Wilcox, Andy Turner, and... read more. Toolan Ambrogio Volonté Ambrogio Volonté is a Senior Research Fellow at NCAS / University of Reading. He is currently taking part in projects... read more. Volonté Kunhui Ye Kunhui is a Marie Curie Fellow at Department of Physics, The University of Oxford. His current research focuses on extreme... read more. Ye REGISTER NOW
Prof Tamsin Edwards Professor Tamsin Edwards is a climate scientist specialising in quantifying the uncertainties of climate model predictions, particularly for the ice... read more. Edwards
Prof Penny Endersby CBE, FREng, Hon FInstP An outstanding government scientist and inspirational leader who has made significant national and international contributions to the delivery of life-saving... read more. Endersby
Prof David Griggs David Griggs is an adjunct Professor of Sustainable Development at Monash University. He was the founder and Director of the... read more. Griggs
Regan Mudhar Regan Mudhar (they/them), PhD Researcher, University of ExeterRegan graduated from the University of Bristol with a MSci in physics with... read more. Mudhar
Larry Ger Aragon Larry Ger Aragon is a Joint Ph.D. student from the University of Melbourne and the University of Manchester. His current... read more. Aragon
Eviatar Bach Eviatar Bach is joining the University of Reading as a Lecturer in the Department of Meteorology and the Department of... read more. Bach
Laura Baker Laura Baker is a senior research scientist in NCAS, based at the University of Reading. Her main research interests include... read more. Baker
Prof Emily Black Emily Black is Professor of Terrestrial Processes and Climate at the University of Reading, and a senior scientist at the... read more. Black
Hannah Bloomfield Hannah is a Newcastle Academic Track fellow in climate resilient energy systems. She gained her PhD from the University of... read more. Bloomfield
Lizzie Collingwood I am a second-year PhD student based at the British Antarctic Survey. My research is focused on the roles of... read more. Collingwood
Andrew Creswick Andrew joined the Aviation Applications team in October 2022 and develops probabilistic forecasts of convection and icing hazards for the... read more. Creswick
Prof Helen Dacre Helen Dacre is a Professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading and Joint Met Office Chair. Her research interests... read more. Dacre
Dr Akshay Deoras Dr Akshay Deoras is a Research Scientist at NCAS/University of Reading. His interests lie in subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) predictions, land-atmosphere interaction,... read more. Deoras
Buwen Dong Dr Buwen Dong is a principal research follow at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading. He has... read more. Dong
Oliver Driver Oliver Driver is a 2nd year PhD student at Imperial College London, supervised by Dr Edward Gryspeerdt and Dr Marc... read more. Driver
Isla Finney Isla Finney is the director of Lake Street, a small weather consultancy firm which aims to help clients from a... read more. Finney
David L. A. Flack David did his undergraduate degree at the University of Reading graduating in 2013. Following his undergraduate David completed his PhD... read more. Flack
Kevin F. Forbes Kevin F. Forbes, Ph.D., is the Founder of Energy and Environmental Data Science in Ireland. He has over 25 years... read more. Forbes
Brian Golding Brian Golding is Met Office Senior Fellow in Weather Impacts, visiting professor at Bristol University and co-chair of the WMO... read more. Golding
Suzanne Gray Sue Gray’s research is on dynamics and predictability of extratropical weather systems ranging from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, and... read more. Gray
Dr Natalie Harvey Natalie Harvey is a senior research scientist at the University of Reading. She has over ten years postdoctoral research experience... read more. Harvey
Ben Harvey Ben Harvey is a senior research scientist in climate and high-impact weather at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science. His... read more. Harvey
Nicholas G. Heavens Nicholas G. Heavens works for the geosciences technology company, CGG, and focuses on how full-complexity climate modelling can support risk... read more. Heavens
Karen Helliesen Karen Helliesen grew up witnessing climate change's impact on her hometown in Norway, igniting her passion for tackling the climate... read more. Helliesen
Peter Hill I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Reading with interests in understanding and improving interactions between clouds, convection,... read more. Hill
John Hillier John is fascinated by dependencies between hazards triggered by severe weather events (e.g. windstorms, flooding, cold, landslides), and their impact... read more. Hillier
Linda Hirons Linda Hirons has a background in Tropical Meteorology and the drivers of weather and climate variability and change over Africa.... read more. Hirons
Wilhelm Hodder PhD Will Hodder is a University of Manchester and University of East Anglia graduate, working as a research engineer in the... read more. Hodder
George Horner I am a 4th year PhD student in the Space, Plasma and Climate group at Imperial College London. My research... read more. Horner
Sarah Horton Sarah Horton, originally a satellite design engineer and now a private maths tutor, has supported the Tornado and Storm Research... read more. Horton
Hette Houtman I achieved an MPhys degree from Durham University in 2022 and am now a PhD student in meteorology at the... read more. Houtman
Ben Hutchins While studying Natural Sciences at Lancaster University, I developed an interest in climate science and Meteorology. This led me to... read more. Hutchins
Richard W. Jones Richard completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia, focussing on weather and climate in West Antarctica. He joined... read more. Jones
Thorsten Kaluza In April 2022 I finished my Phd studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany, with a research focus... read more. Kaluza
Mike Kendon Mike works on developing and maintaining the UK’s climate monitoring system and underlying dataset, named HadUK-Grid, based on observations from... read more. Kendon
Dhirendra Kumar Dr. Dhirendra Kumar is a Research Scientist at the NCAS, University of Reading, where he leads the development of an... read more. Kumar
Alice Lake Alice works as an Applied Scientist at the Met Office, in a joint role between the Post-processing Applications team and... read more. Lake
Humphrey William Lean Humphrey has a BSc in Physics from the University of Bristol and PhD in low temperature physics (superconductivity) from... read more. Lean
Robert W. Lee Robert is a Research Scientist at the University of Reading focusing on weather and climate dynamics and predictability, particularly on... read more. Lee
Joshua Macholl As the main Met Office Scientist in the international REPRESA (REsilience and PREparedness to tropical cyclones in Southern Africa) project,... read more. Macholl
Fiona O'Connor Fiona O’Connor is a Science Fellow at the Met Office, and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics &... read more. O'Connor
Christopher H. O'Reilly I am a scientist who is interested in the dynamics of the Earth’s climate system. My research broadly focuses on... read more. O'Reilly
Georgios Papavasileiou Dr. Georgios Papavasileiou was born in Larissa, Greece and studied Mathematics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.... read more. Papavasileiou
Matt Patterson Matt Patterson has a general interest in atmospheric circulation, climate change and prediction on a range of timescales. He completed... read more. Patterson
Fatima Pillosu Fatima graduated from the University of Cagliari (Italy) with a degree in Civil Engineering. My main research interest is in... read more. Pillosu
Matthew Priestley I am a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and funded by the WTW Research Network. My research focusses... read more. Priestley
Kenneth Pryor Kenneth Pryor received an M.S. degree in Meteorology from University of Maryland in 2004 and a PhD in Atmospheric Physics... read more. Pryor
Zhaoxia Pu Dr. Zhaoxia Pu is a professor of atmospheric sciences, a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and a fellow of... read more. Pu
Raquel Santos Born in Portugal, Raquel Santos is passionate about investigating climatological extremes and their associated impacts. She began her academic journey... read more. Santos
Jon Shonk I completed my PhD in meteorology at the University of Reading investigating better ways of representing cloud structure in weather... read more. Shonk
Ian Simpson Dr Ian Simpson is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Antarctic Extreme Weather at the University of Lincoln. He completed a... read more. Simpson
Thea Stevens Thea is a second-year PhD student studying at the University of Reading (UoR). She is interested in variability, trends and... read more. Stevens
Vikki Thompson Vikki is a scientist at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and visiting researcher at the Institute of Environmental Studies, VU... read more. Thompson
Anna Tippett Anna Tippett is a 2nd year PhD student at Imperial College London, supervised by Dr Edward Gryspeerdt. She is affiliated... read more. Tippett
Catherine Toolan Catherine Toolan is a second year PhD student at the University of Reading, supervised by Laura Wilcox, Andy Turner, and... read more. Toolan
Ambrogio Volonté Ambrogio Volonté is a Senior Research Fellow at NCAS / University of Reading. He is currently taking part in projects... read more. Volonté
Kunhui Ye Kunhui is a Marie Curie Fellow at Department of Physics, The University of Oxford. His current research focuses on extreme... read more. Ye