Curriculum Vitae

Key Skills:

  • Mathematical modeling and simulation
  • Software design, development, testing and validation
  • Data analysis and statistical inference
  • Technical project management

Employment History

Since 2002 I have worked for The Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change as a climate scientist. Mostly I have been collecting and analysing weather observations from the last 150 years - making long, homogenous records of surface weather, which can be used to quantify recent climate changes and to put them in context. This has lead to new historical analyses of sea-surface, land surface, and upper-air temperatures, and surface pressure patterns. I've also been looking at proxy weather data (tree-rings and corals) from longer ago, and comparing them to climate model simulations (as part of the SO&P project).

Between 1994 and 2002 I worked for British Energy (formerly Nuclear Electric).

  • Between 1997 and 2002 I worked at Barnwood in Gloucester as a fuel performance specialist. My primary responsibility was the development of models of the behaviour of reactor fuel rods. I also provided specialist advice to support the production of reactor safety cases, and specified and managed experiments on irradiated fuel properties.
    • Between September 1998 and April 2000 I went on secondment to the Halden Reactor Project. While there I worked on experimental design and data analysis, and particularly on tools for analysing transient data and for the storage and display of experimental results.
  • From April 1994 to mid-1997 I worked at Berkeley in Gloucestershire as a reactor physicist; mostly on the development of models of reactor safety systems, and on the validation of methods for predicting reactor behaviour in fault transients.
    • Between October 1995 and March 1996 I was seconded to Oldbury power station. There I worked on integrating modern analytical tools into the station procedures and on analysis of temperature measurements of reactor components.

Education History

1991 - 1994: Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Cavendish Lab., Cambridge:
Ph.D. in Computational Physics,
Thesis title: Ab-Initio studies of Two-Level States in Glasses and Electron Energy-Loss Spectra.
1987 - 1991: Girton College, Cambridge:
B.A. Physics and Theoretical Physics (2:1)
1980 - 1987: The King's School, Worcester.
S-levels Maths, Physics (distinction in both).
A-levels Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry (all grade A).
10 O-levels.

Born March 12th 1969, British citizen.