Group

Partial group photo following the 2022 AOFD meeting in Breckenridge, CO. (left-right: Aaron Carruthers, Regan Mudhar, Will Seviour, Emily Ball).

Academic groups have become a bit amorphous in the UK as PhD students now commonly have multiple supervisors. I think this is a really good thing, but it means it’s tricky to define such thing as ‘my group’. Having said that, I am very lucky to have a lead- or co-supervisory role with the following fantastic people:

Current members

Aaron Carruthers is a PhD student at the University of Exeter, investigating the dynamics of Jupiter’s polar vortices. Aaron’s lead supervisor is Stephen Thomson.

Ross Castle is a PhD student at the University of Exeter, co-supervised with Geoff Vallis. He is interested in understanding the atmospheric general circulation response to climate change.

Stephen Hughes is a PhD student at the University of Exeter, co-supervised with Stephen Thomson and Jemma Shipton. He is working on the dynamics of the Martian polar vortices.

Chris Kent is a PhD student at the University of Exeter and Met Office, co-supervised with Adam Scaife, Nick Dunstone, and Doug Smith. He is a member of the Monthly to Decadal Variability and Prediction Group at the Met Office, and persuing a PhD project on climate forecast ensembles of extreme events.

Regan Mudhar is a PhD student at the University of Exeter, working on the impacts of Artcic amplification on the stratosphere, as part of the ArticCONNECT project. Her co-supervisors are Stephen Thomson, James Screen, Dann Mitchell, and Adam Scaife.

Charlie Turrell is a PhD student at the University of Exeter working on the impacts of Arctic amplification on midlatitudes. Charlie is co-supervised by James Screen, and his lead supervisor is Stephen Thomson.

Past members

Dr Erin Walker was a PhD student at the University of Bristol, co-supervised with Dann Mitchell and Paul Valdes. She worked on understanding the impact of the stratosphere on extratropical storm tracks. Erin now works in sustainability in the private sector and is based in Australia.

Dr Emily Ball was a PhD student at the University of Bristol (2019-2023), co-supervised with Dann Mitchell and Geoff Vallis. Her PhD work focussed on understanding polar vortex dynamics on Mars and exoplanets. She is now a Research Associate at the University of Bristol.

Dr Richard Hall was a research associate at the University of Bristol (2019-2022), co-supervised with Dann Mitchell, on a NERC-funded project led by Corwin Wright at the University of Bath. He investigated sudden stratospheric warmings and their impact on extreme weather events. Now a postdoc at Imperial College London, working with Arnaud Czaja.

I am also fortunate to be a member of the Isca team, as well as the Centre for Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics at Exeter, and to be an external member of the Bristol Climate Dynamics Group.