Interested in joining the Atmospheric Dynamics group? Check out the Opportunities page for more information, or contact me. We are also part of COASt (Climate, Ocean, and Atmosphere at St Andrews), a group of related research groups in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Current members
Maxwell Jackson is a PhD student working on North Atlantic atmosphere–ocean interactions and their role in seasonal forecasts, co-supervised by Matt Patterson and Jean Reinaud.
Freya Gibbon is a PhD student working on the jet stream response to changing temperature gradients and its impact on the ocean. Freya’s lead supervisor is Graeme MacGilchrist and she is also co-supervised by Mike Byrne.
Thomas Breitburd is PhD student working on understanding compound extreme events with machine learning. Thomas’s lead supervisor is Ioana Colfescu and he is also co-supervised by Jean Reinaud and Chen Lu.
Angel Brear is a StARIS undergraduate researcher for summer 2026 working on analysing data from a new sonic anemometer in the St Andrews Botanic Garden.
Past members
Shih-Ni Zhou was a visiting research student from National Taiwan University in June 2025, supported by our joint seed funding project with NTU. Shih-Ni worked on understanding the surface response to SSWs and predicting it using machine learning.