Our science fellows
Met Office science fellows have been appointed on the basis of their scientific and technical achievements which have contributed significantly to delivering Met Office objectives, and are recognised nationally and internationally
Adrian leads the research and development of the parametrization of the atmospheric boundary layer.
Alison leads research into the representation of convection across model scales.
Brian researches to advance our forecasting capabilities of hazardous weather
Chris leads research into the global carbon cycle and how it interacts with climate change. This helps governments determine carbon budgets and activities to tackle climate change.
Chris leads the optimisation work for our Next Generation Modelling Systems for current and future supercomputer architectures.
Damian Wilson
Damian provides advice across several of our applied-science focussed programmes and projects and leads on supporting the career development of our science professionals.
David Jackson
David is involved in research to operations activities aimed at improving Met Office operational space weather forecasts, with a particular focus on the thermosphere.
David leads on the development of workflow related tools and other infrastructure underpinning our modelling systems.
David works on developing the use of causal networks and machine learning to improve our understanding of future climate change. His work also focuses on enabling easier and more robust and reliable adaptation decisions.
David leads research in atmospheric turbulence and dispersion.
Doug leads the decadal climate prediction research and development at the Met Office Hadley Centre.
Ed is moving to the Informatics Lab for a two year secondment and will pioneer our use of data sciences in our hazard to decision making for climate security.
Fiona leads on climate and atmospheric composition and developing science to underpin the commitments made at COP26 on methane.
Helene is a Met Office Science Fellow and leads the Ocean Modelling group.
Ian leads important work to re-engineer our modelling codes in the Next Generation Modelling Systems programme.
James is developing a strategy for seamless ensemble prediction across a range of time scales.
Jim is engaged in measurement and modelling aerosols and their impacts on radiation, clouds, visibility and air-quality.
Jonathan is a Research Fellow in climate change at the Met Office Hadley Centre.
Ken is providing leadership on the development and use of ensembles in NWP.
Kirsty is bringing her huge experience from a secondment at the FCDO into how we take our science into impact and co-design climate services.
Lizzie is leading pioneering work to use very high resolution (km-scale) models for understanding future climate change. She leads a small team who are focussed on understanding the representation of high impact events such as extreme rainfall, sting jets and lightning at high resolution compared to conventional climate models, and the implications for future change.
Martin manages the research undertaken on land surface processes
Matt leads the research and development of marine data assimilation systems in the Met Office.
Matt works with the international research community on advancing our observational climate datasets to enhance Met Office science and services.
Mike is working on the the dynamics of meridional overturning circulations and ocean heat uptake and the numerics of the NEMO ocean model. He is also Head of Learning and Development within Science.
Nick works on near-term climate prediction. His research aims to improve our physical understanding so that we can identify and exploit windows of opportunity for issuing early warnings of climate extremes.
Nigel Roberts
Nigel works on innovative ways to exploit, evaluate and develop our numerical weather prediction ensemble forecasts with the aim of improving the forecast information we provide.
Paul leads research into cloud microphysical processes
Peter is an expert in the attribution of climate change to anthropogenic and natural causes and leads the climate monitoring and attribution team.
Richard leads the climate impacts area, specialising in ecosystem-hydrology-climate interactions but also overseeing work on urban, health, industry and finance.
Richard is a Science Fellow and manages work on generating and applying regional climate information and modelling systems with a focus on international development.
Samantha Adams
As Next Generation Modelling System technical integration fellow, Sam's focus is to ensure the operational delivery of Momentum® Global and Regional modelling capability with minimal disruption to downstream users and stakeholders.
