Curriculum Vitae

Positions

• NERC Independent Research Fellow, University of Oxford, from 2025 (incoming).
• Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford, 2024-present.
• Postdoctoral associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-2024.
• Post-doctoral research assistant, University of Oxford, 2021-2022.
• Post-doctoral research assistant, University of Oxford, 2017.

Education

• PhD Climate Computing, University of Oxford, 2017-2021.
• MSc Climate Physics, University of Kiel, 2014-2017.
• MSc Course on the Arctic Atmospheric Boundary Layer, University Centre in Svalbard, 2016.
• Marine Physics, University of Western Brittany, France, 2013-14 (year 1 of MSc).
• BSc Physics of the Earth System, University of Kiel, Germany, 2010-13.

Research visits

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 2025.
• University College London, UK, 2024-present.
• University of Oxford, UK, 2015.
• Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany, 2012 and 2013.

Awards and prizes

• Copernicus Programme, ECMWF summer of weather code, 2020 and 2021, £10,000.
• 1st prize ($1000) in the Scipy John Hunter excellence for plotting contest 2019 with the Intuitive Probabilistic Meteogram
• Travel Grant (£1000) by a major publishing company for the best poster, DTP Student Conference, Dec 2018.

Oceanographic research cruises and summer schools

• Meteor M130. Tropical Atlantic from Mindelo, Cabo Verde to Recife, Brazil, Aug-Oct 2016.
• Physics of the Ocean, Bad Honnef, Germany, Jul 2017.

Conference organisation

• Chair Earth and climate science in Julia: Power to the user, JuliaCon 2024 minisymposium, Eindhoven, NL (video).
• Chair Phoenix or Cyborg: The anatomy of Earth System software in Julia, JuliaCon 2023 minisymposium, Cambridge MA, USA (video).
• Education and Skills coordinator, Oxford Climate Society, 2019-2020.
• Grand Challenges Seminar on Anthropocene and the Post-Truth World, Jesus College Oxford, May 2018.
• Stumeta, conference for meteorology students, Kiel, Germany, 4-8 May 2016.

Teaching

• The RainMaker challenge: Atmospheric modelling tutorial. Intelligent Earth CDT, Oxford, UK, Nov 2024.
• General circulation models, lecture for Intelligent Earth CDT, Oxford, UK, Nov 2024.
• RaspberryPi weather stations at NERC DTP Induction, Wytham Woods, UK, Sep 2024.
• MIT freshmen orientation field trip to Mt Washington, Aug 2023.
• Tutor for Geophysical Fluid Dynamics in MSc in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, April and May 2022.
• Guest lecturer for MSc Sustainable Urban Development, University of Oxford, Dec 2020 and 2021.
• School of Climate Change coordination, Oxford Climate Society, Winter 2019 and 2020, Fall 2019.
• Software engineering demonstrator for Doctoral Training Centre, University of Oxford, 2020-2021.
• Numerical modelling demonstrator for Doctoral Training Centre, University of Oxford, 2018-2020.
• RaspberryPi weather stations at NERC DTP Induction, Wytham Woods, UK, Sep 2022.
• RaspberryPi weather stations at NERC DTP field trip, Exmoor National Park, UK, Sep 2018.
• Python programming at GEOMAR Kiel, Germany in Jun 2016, Jan 2017 and Jul 2017.

Students

• Juniper Tyree (PhD candidate), University of Helsinki, May 2024-present.
• Minqi Xia (Master thesis), University of Oxford, Oct 2024-present.

Mentoring and thesis committee

• College advisor, Reuben College, Oct 2024-present.
• Juniper Tyree, University of Helsinki, Sep 2023 - May 2024.
• Ayoub Fatihi, ECMWF Code for Earth, May-Sept 2023.
• Ishaan Jain, Google Summer of Code, May-Oct 2023.

Reviewer for

• Nature Climate Change
• Nature Machine Intelligence
• Journal for Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES)
• Geoscientific Model Development (GMD)
• Environmental Research Letters (ERL)
• Scientometrics
• Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)
• Weather