Current PhD Students (Reading)

1. •Meryl Chittethazhathu Anil, 2022-present (co-supervisor)
   

2. •Fiona Spuler, 2022-present
   

3. •Melissa Seabrook, 2024-present
   

4. •Piyali Goswami, 2024-present
   

5. •Reuben Buss, 2024-present
   

Current Post-doctoral Research Associates (Reading)

1. •Emmanuel Rouges, 2023-present
   

2. •Xiaocen Shen, 2023-present
   

Former PhD Students (Toronto)

1. •Paul Kushner (MSc and PhD), 1990-1995: “Wave-activity conservation laws and stability theorems for semi-geostrophic dynamics”; subsequently a post-doctoral fellow with I.M. Held at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of Princeton University; now a Professor in the Department of Physics, University of Toronto
   

1. •Onno Bokhove (MSc and PhD), 1990-1995: “On balanced models in geophysical fluid dynamics”; subsequently a post-doctoral fellow with J. Pedlosky at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; now a Professor in the School of Mathematics, University of Leeds
   

1. •Keith Ngan (MSc and PhD), 1991-1997: “Chaotic advection in the stratosphere”; subsequently a post-doctoral fellow with R.T. Pierrehumbert at the University of Chicago; now an Assistant Professor in the School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong g
   

1. •Djoko Wirosoetisno (PhD), 1993-1999: “Balance dynamics and stability of vortical flows”; subsequently a post-doctoral fellow with R. Temam at the University of Paris-Orsay and Indiana University; now an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University
   

1. •Kirill Semeniuk (MSc and PhD), 1992-1999: “Mean meridional circulations in the middle atmosphere”; subsequently a post-doctoral fellow with R.A. Plumb at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; now Research Scientist at Environment Canada
   

1. •Chuong Van Tran (PhD), 2000-2001 (co-supervision with Prof. H.-R. Cho): “Extensive chaos and complexity of two-dimensional turbulence”; subsequently a post-doctoral fellow with J.C. Bowman at the University of Alberta; now a Lecturer at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, St. Andrews University
   

1. •Diane Pendlebury (PhD), 1995-2001: “Planetary-wave-induced transport in the stratosphere”; subsequently a post-doctoral fellow with T.J. Dunkerton at Northwest Research Associates; now Research Scientist at Environment Canada
   

1. •Jennifer Lukovich (PhD), 1998-2001: “Large-scale mixing in the middle atmosphere”; subsequently a post-doctoral fellow with L.C. Sparling at the University of Maryland; now a Research Associate at the University of Manitoba
   

1. •Simal Saujani (PhD), 1998-2005: “Towards a unified theory of balanced dynamics”
   

1. •Mark Fruman (MSc and PhD), 1998-2005: “Equatorial symmetric stability”; subsequently a post-doctoral fellow with B.L. Hua at IFREMER, Brest, France
   

1. •Lisa Neef (MSc and PhD), 2001-2007: “Balance dynamics and gravity waves in 4D data assimilation”; subsequently a post-doctoral fellow with P. van Velthoven at KNMI, Holland; now a Research Scientist at the Deutscher Wetterdienst
   

1. •Sorin Codoban (PhD), 2000-2007: “Available energy of symmetric circulations, with applications to the middle atmosphere”; now a financial analyst with Scotiabank
   

1. •James Anstey (MSc and PhD), 2000-2009: “Influence of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation on interannual variability in the Northern Hemisphere winter stratosphere”; subsequently a post-doctoral fellow with J.F. Scinocca at CCCma, Victoria; now a Research Scientist at Environment Canada
   

1. •Tiffany Shaw (MSc and PhD), 2004-2009: “Energy and momentum consistency in subgrid-scale parameterization for climate models”; subsequently a Research Associate at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York; now a Professor at the University of Chicago
   

1. •Peter Hitchcock (PhD), 2007-2012: “The Arctic Polar-Night Jet Oscillation”; subsequently a post-doctoral fellow with P.H. Haynes at Cambridge University; now an Assistant Professor at Cornell University
   

1. •Helen Burgess (PhD), 2008-2014: “The applicability of Kraichnan-Leith-Batchelor similarity theory to inverse cascades in generalized two-dimensional turbulence”; subsequently a Research Fellow at St Andrews University; now a Research Scientist at the Met Office
   

1. •Ian Chan (PhD), 2010-2014: “Balance models for equatorial planetary-scale dynamics”
   

Former PhD Students (Reading)

1. •Annelize van Niekerk, 2013-2017: “Sensitivity of atmospheric circulation to orographic drag”; now a Research Scientist at ECMWF
   

1. •Nicholas Byrne, 2013-2017: “Patterns of variability of the large-scale circulation in the Southern Hemisphere”; now a Scientific Software Engineer at EarthScan
   

1. •Lina Boljka, 2014-2018: “Baroclinic and barotropic aspects of wave-mean flow interaction”; now a Weather Associate at Citadel
   

1. •Tse Yan (Adrian) Leung, 2016-2020 (including MRes): “Weather predictability: some theoretical considerations”; now a Research Scientist at the Met Office
   

1. •Elena Saggioro, 2017-2022 (including MRes): “Causal network approaches for the study of sub-seasonal to seasonal variability and predictability”; subsequently a Research Fellow at the Walker Institute; now a Senior Analyst with the UK Climate Change Committee
   

1. •Swinda Falkena, 2018-2022 (including MRes): “Identifying signals of atmospheric circulation regime variability”; subsequently a post-doctoral fellow at Utrecht University
   

1. •Wilson Chan, 2019-2023: “A new approach to navigate uncertainty in climate-related hydrological drought risk”; subsequently a hydroclimatologist at UKCEH
   

1. •Linda van Garderen, 2018-2022: “Climate change attribution of extreme weather events using spectrally nudged event storylines” (University of Hamburg; primary supervisor: Frauke Feser); subsequently a post-doctoral fellow at Utrecht University
   

1. •Philipp Breul, 2019-2022: “Investigating the relationship between mean state and forced response of the Southern Hemispheric eddy-driven jet stream” (Imperial College London; primary supervisor: Paulo Ceppi); subsequently a post-doctoral fellow at Imperial College London
   

1. •Julia Mindlin, 2019-2024: “Storyline approach to atmospheric circulation variability in the Southern Hemisphere” (University of Buenos Aires: primary supervisor: Carolina Vera); subsequently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Leipzig
   

Former Post-doctoral Fellows and Research Associates (Toronto)

1. •Hiro Sakuma, 1989-1991; now a Research Scientist with the Institute for Global Change Research (Frontier Systems), Tokyo
   

1. •John Bowman, 1991-1993; now a Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Alberta
   

1. •Hubert Shen, 1993-1994; now in the private sector (financial mathematics)
   

1. •Xiaoqing Li, 1993-1996; now in the private sector (computer systems)
   

1. •John Koshyk, 1994-2001 (Research Associate, Canadian MAM Project); subsequently a financial analyst with TD Bank
   

1. •Jacques Vanneste, 1995-1997; now a Professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
   

1. •Shuzhan Ren, 1995-1998 and 2001-2011 (Senior Research Associate); now a Research Scientist with Environment Canada
   

1. •Serguei Medvedev, 1997-1998; now a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Computational Technologies, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
   

1. •David Sankey, 1998-2006 (Research Associate, GCC Project); now in the private sector (software engineering)
   

1. •Lucy Campbell, 2000-2003; now an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University
   

1. •Charles McLandress, 2000-2014 (Senior Research Associate); now a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Physics, University of Toronto
   

1. •Yan Yang, 2002-2004; now a Research Associate with Environment Canada
   

1. •Yoshihiro Tomikawa, 2003-2004; now a Research Scientist at the National Institute for Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan
   

1. •Matt Reszka, 2003-2005; now a Research Associate with Environment Canada
   

1. •Thomas Birner, 2004-2008: now a Professor at the Meteorological Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
   

1. •Yulia Nezlin, 2005-2010 (Research Associate, C-SPARC Project)
   

1. •Michaela Hegglin, 2005-2008; now a Professor at the University of Reading and Director of the Institute of Climate and Energy Systems, Forschungszentrum Jülich
   

1. •Jahanshah Davoudi, 2006-2009 (Research Associate); now a financial analyst with the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan
   

1. •Susann Tegtmeier, 2006-2009; now an Associate Professor at the University of Saskatchewan
   

1. •Diane Pendlebury, 2006-2014 (Senior Research Associate, SPARC Office); now a Research Associate at Environment Canada
   

1. •Andreas Jonsson, 2007-2013
   

1. •Magdalena Lucini, 2008-2009; now an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina
   

1. •Isla Simpson, 2009-2012; now Scientist III at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado
   

Former Post-doctoral Fellows (Reading)

1. •Felix Pithan, 2015-2016; now a Group Leader at AWI Bremerhaven
   

1. •Inna Polichtchouk, 2014-2018; now a Research Scientist at ECMWF
   

1. •Paulo Ceppi, 2015-2018: now a Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London
   

1. •Mylène Haslehner, 2015-2017: now a Research Scientist at CNRS Paris
   

1. •Giuseppe Zappa, 2014-2019: now a Research Scientist at CNR Bologna
   

1. •Hannah Young, 2017-2020
   

1. •Talia Tamarin-Brodsky, 2017-2020: now an Assistant Professor at M.I.T.
   

1. •Emanuele Bevacqua, 2019-2020; now a Group Leader at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig
   

1. •Marlene Kretschmer, 2019-2022; now an Assistant Professor at the University of Leipzig
   

1. •Rohit Ghosh, 2020-2022; now a Research Scientist at AWI in Bremerhaven
   

Senior Visitors (Toronto)

1. •Prof. Tom Warn, McGill University, 1990-1991 (12 months)
   

1. •Dr. Vladimir Vladimirov, Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Branch of USSR Academy of Sciences, 1991 (6 weeks)
   

1. •Prof. Mu Mu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1992-1993 (12 months)
   

1. •Prof. Mu Mu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1995 (5 months)
   

1. •Prof. Yongming Liu, Anhui University, 1995-1996 (12 months)
   

1. •Prof. Takahiro Iwayama, Kobe University, 2000-2001 (12 months)
   

1. •Prof. Dehai Luo, Ocean University of Qingdao, 2002-2003 (12 months)
   

1. •Dr. Erich Becker, Leibniz Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Kuhlungsborn, 2004 (2 months)
   

1. •Dr. Bram Bregman, KNMI, Netherlands, 2005 (3 months)
   

1. •Dr. Erich Becker, Leibniz Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Kuhlungsborn, 2007 (2 months)
   

1. •Prof. Manuel Pulido, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina, 2008-2009 (12 months)
   

Senior Visitors (Reading)

1. •Dr. Yousuke Yamashita, NIES, Japan, 2012-2014
   

1. •Prof. Alan Plumb, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015 (5 months)