Academic Employment
2024–present: Lecturer in Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews, UK
— Co-lead of Climate, Ocean and Atmosphere at St Andrews (COASt)
— Sub-honours Adviser, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (2025–present)
— Study Abroad Adviser, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (2025–present)
— Library Representative, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (2025–present)
— Research Theme Representative for Climate, Society and Environmental Change, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (2026–present)
2021–2024: Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, USA
— PI: Lorenzo Polvani
— Atmospheric and climate dynamics, including stratosphere-troposphere coupling and weather regimes
Education
2021: PhD Atmosphere, Oceans and Climate, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK
— Thesis: Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling on Subseasonal Timescales (Advsiors: Andrew Charlton-Perez, Steve Woolnough, Jason Furtado)
— Summer 2019 spent working in the Applied Climate Dynamics group at the Univ. of Oklahoma
— University of Reading PhD Researcher of the Year, 2021
2018: MMet Meteorology and Climate, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK
— Dissertation: Trends in the North Atlantic Upper-Level Jet Stream in Reanalyses (Advsiors: Paul Williams and Tom Frame)
— Studied 4000-level classes (and 1 level 5000 class) in the School of Meteorology, Univ. of Oklahoma
— MMet Prize for Academic Achievement, 2018
Funded projects
2026: University of St Andrews Impact & Innovation Fund: Developing an evidence basis for wind-driven public garden closures. [PI, £7.8k]
2025–2026: National Taiwan University–University of St Andrews Joint Seed Funding Scheme: Enhancing Extended-Range Forecasting through AI: The Role of Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling [PI, £5k to St Andrews].
Teaching (St Andrews)
ES2003 Dynamic Earth: Earth Surface Processes (lecturer; 2025–present)
ES1002 Earth’s Resource Challenges (lecturer; 2025–present)
ES3013 Oceans and Atmosphere (lecturer; 2024–present)
Service
2024–present: Steering committee member, APARC SNAP
2024–present: Chair, RMetS Annual Conference scientific committee
2020–present: Member, RMetS Awards Committee
2020–2025: Member, RMetS Scientific Publishing Committee
2020–2025: Co-Editor-in-Chief, RMetS Weather journal
2022–2024: Member, RMetS Youth and Early Career Special Interest Group
2019–2021: Student Member, AMS Committee on Middle Atmosphere
2019–2021: Committee Member, RMetS South East Local Centre
2018–2021: Member (2018-20) and Chair (2020-21) of Postgraduate Forum, Dept. of Meteorology, University of Reading
2018–2021: Administrator, The Weather Game
2018–2020: Editor, The Social Metwork
2014–2016: Staff-Student Liaison Committee Course Representative for Meteorology, University of Reading
Peer review: JGR: Atmospheres, GRL, J. Climate, JAS, MWR, BAMS, JAMC, WCD, ACP, ERL, Nature Communications, Nature Climate Change, Science Advances, ASL, IJOC, QJRMS, ASCMO.
Awards
2021: Malcolm Walker Award, Royal Meteorological Society
2021: PhD Researcher of the Year, University of Reading
2021: Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD Candidate Presentation Award, EGU
2020: Best Quo Vadis oral presentation, Dept. of Meteorology, University of Reading
2018: MMet Prize for Academic Achievement, University of Reading
2016: Chancellor’s Award, University of Reading
2015: Chancellor’s Award, University of Reading
2015: Ewan Paige Prize, University of Reading
External talks
— EGU 2026, May 2026: Recent summertime North American weather regime trends in a very large seasonal model ensemble.
— Climate Central monthly webinar, April 2026: Cold air outbreaks over the US & the polar vortex.
— RMetS Scottish Local Centre, January 2026: Stratospheric Influences on Surface Weather and Climate.
— Central Weather Administration, Taiwan, September 2025: Biases in stratosphere–troposphere coupling in subseasonal forecast systems.
— National Taiwan University, September 2025: The exaggerated Pacific centre-of-action of the Northern Annular Mode in climate models.
— Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Norway, May 2025: Year-round North American weather regimes: definition and applications.
— University of Edinburgh, February 2025: The exaggerated Pacific centre-of-action of the Northern Annular Mode in climate models.
— University of Exeter, January 2025: The exaggerated Pacific centre-of-action of the Northern Annular Mode in climate models.
— Stephenson Harwood LLP, September 2024: The global climate: where we are, where we’re going, and what that means.
— DAMTP, University of Cambridge, November 2023: The surface Northern Annular Mode in models and observations.
— KIT, October 2023: A New Year-Round Weather Regime Classification for North America.
— NOAA Climate Prediction Center, March 2023: A New Year-Round Weather Regime Classification for North America.
— AMS 36th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, January 2023: Modulation of Atmospheric Rivers by the Arctic Stratospheric Polar Vortex.
— DAES/ASRC Joint Colloquium, University at Albany, NY, November 2022: The stratospheric influence on North American weather: a regimes perspective.
— Malcolm Walker Award Presentation, RMetS Student and Early Career Scientists Conference, July 2022: Look Up to Look Ahead: the wintertime stratosphere in subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction.
— NASA GISS Lunch Seminar, February 2022:Using Regimes to Understand North American Weather and Climate Variability.
— RMetS Yorkshire Local Centre, January 2022: How the Polar Vortex influences your life in winter.
— RMetS Atmospheric Science Conference, September 2021: Are we at a turning point in atmospheric science? An early-career perspective.
— RMetS South East Local Centre, March 2021: Seasonal Forecasts of the Exceptional Winter of 2019–2020.
— Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics Group, University of Cambridge, UK, May 2020: North American weather regimes and the stratospheric polar vortex.
— NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, June 2019: The 2018–19 Arctic Stratospheric Polar Vortex.
PhDs examined
2026: Joshua Duffield (University of St Andrews): Understanding Temperature Responses to Climate Change: Distributions, Extremes, and Seasonal Cycle (internal examiner)