Roles within the School and Faculty

I am the Department's Senior Academic Advisor (2018-)

BSc (Hons) Pure and Applied Physics (UMIST) 2001; PhD Atmospheric science (Manchester) 2006;

Research group

• Centre for Atmospheric Science

Research Group(s)

• Atmospheric Science

Modules taught

In 2006 I took up the position of lecturer in SEES. I taught mathematics, problem solving, statistics and computing to first and second year Environmental Science students for a period of 10-years. I taught Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics to 3rd year Physics students in addition to Measuring and Predicting to MPEC students for 8-years.

More recently I have been teaching Environmental Modelling (EART22001) to second-year students and Measuring and Prediciting-2 (EART60071) to MPEC students.

I graduated from UMIST in 2001 gaining a 1st class degree in Pure and Applied Physics and being awarded course prize for best performance in all three years.

I then moved on to do a PhD in Atmospheric Physics. This included field work in Australia (Darwin), Swizerland (Jungfraujoch), and laboratory work in Germany (at the AIDA chamber). I also received a scholarship to visit the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder Colorado.

During my PhD I also used the large-eddy-simulation numerical technique and developed numerical cloud parcel models to interpret atmospheric and laboratory data. 

Now I am Professor of Atmospheric Physics in the School of Earth and Environmental Science. I have continued to develop the numerical and laboratory expertise in the University of Manchester in the areas of cloud physics and cloud dynamics. In this role I have developed a large cloud chamber facility at Manchester, in the Latham Laboratories.

Current interests include: ice-nucleation; secondary ice production; cloud-physics; deep learning methods for image classification (unsupervised learning)

Cloud physics, ice nucleation, aerosol-cloud interactions, secondary ice production, numerical modelling; unsupervised deep-learning methods for image classification.

Interested in developing research projects in any of my areas? Come and see me in Manchester and / or let's meet for a coffee and a chat.