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Position: Head of High-Resolution Global Climate Modelling

Primary Institution: University of Reading

Number of years teaching or involved in training: 40

Number of years involved in NCAS training: 21

Certifications: Fluency in several languages

Speciality: Computational Modelling

Courses: 

Course Lead for the Climate Modelling Summer School

Role:

I have 40 years experience over four continents: I have taught around the world, in several languages, and led or co-led summer schools at both national and international level. My teaching philosophy is fully hands-on: learn by doing, not by passively watching someone else do. Consequently, I spend two weeks at my NCAS Climate Modelling Summer School, every time I run it, working directly with students, all day, every day.

Grants:

CMSS was originally funded by the Foreign Office. It is now entirely based on UJCC (precursor to HRCM, our core NCAS grant, co-led with the Met Office), but underpinned by PRIMAVERA/HighResMIP, EERIE/HighResMIP2, NextGEMS (all EU funded, two of which I co-led), and by the ICCP-GSRA, funded by JSPS.