Nathan was responsible for first adapting the Met Office model to exoplanet atmospheres, with James Manners, Chris Smith and David Amundsen. Nathan is an expert in exoplanet climates,…
Hugo is an Earth atmospheric scientist with expertise in large scale climatology and the hydrological cycle. He is interested in understanding the atmospheres and climates of terrestrial exoplanets…
Expert in chemical modelling of planetary atmospheres, Eric has been studying very different environments, covering a broad range of physical and chemical conditions, from the deep chill of…
Ian is an atmospheric scientist with primary interests in clouds and turbulence. Working from the Met Office and University of Exeter, Ian is interested in the climate and…
James specialises in the modelling of radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres, working both from the Met Office and the Exoplanet group at Exeter University. He is the lead…
Maria is an atmospheric chemist with a background in meteorology. She recently obtained her PhD, where she explored the global and localised impacts of the chemistry of a…
Alex is a PhD student working with Denis at the University of Bristol. Alex is adapting the Met Office's new 3D modelling system, LFRic, for idealised high-resolution cloud-resolving…
Duncan is an astrophysicist interested in exoplanetary atmospheres and star formation. With Nathan, he is investigating how assumptions about atmospheric mixing in cloud models impact the atmospheric structure…
Krisztian is responsible for the maintenance and development of the Met Office UM code on our local development and High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities at Exeter and elsewhere…
Paul is an atmospheric physicist who is heading up the adaptation of the UKCA atmospheric chemistry for exoplanet modeling with the Met Office UM, at the University of…
Danny is an Astrophysics Masters by Research student working on adapting the Met Office UM to create an idealised modern-day Mars GCM. This will include: a dynamic dust…
Working with Isabelle Baraffe, Mark is developing a grid of brown dwarf atmospheres using the ATMO code. This grid will be used to investigate how thermo-chemical instabilities arising…
Simon is a PhD student working with Professor Matthew Browning and Nathan utilising the open source code Dedalus to study interior convection of stars and gas giant planets.…
Robbie is a second-year PhD student working with Nathan, James, and Hugo. Robbie is using the Met Office UM to study the effects of star-planet interactions, particularly the…
Michelle graduated in 2018 with an MPhys at the University of Hertfordshire. Her dissertation examined lidar results from South Korea, where mixed dust and pollution travels from China.…
Jake is working to understand the key long-term processes controlling the Archean Earth climate using PALEO, a 0D biogeochemical model. This is being done in parallel with short-term…
Alex graduated from Cardiff University in 2020 with an MPhys in Astrophysics. His dissertation was based on the detection of terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres with atmospheric spectroscopy and investigating…
Meghan graduated from The Univeristy of Birmingham in 2016 with a BSc in Geology. She has since been working at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts as…
Ben investigates the atmospheric composition of hydrogen dominated gas giant exoplanets. Understanding the gas phase chemistry is crucial in determining the dynamical and thermal structure of the atmosphere…
Jayesh develops forward models to interpret observations of exoplanet atmospheres. He primarily focuses on developing and improving radiative transfer computations in the model, along with the generation of…
