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May 2024: Edinburgh Climate, Energy and Finance workshop
Invited talk on Climate Resilient Energy Systems.
Apr 2024: ILS Insurance Insider Annual Meeting
Invited talk on the impacts of climate change on the insurance sector.
Apr 2024: European Geophysical Union
Invited talk on climate resilient energy systems and talk on weather patterns that drive renewable energy droughts over India.
Mar 2024: DAFNI Energy Sandpit Project Funding
BRINES: Building risk-informed redundancy in energy systems transitioning to net-zero
Mar 2024: Risk Day: Newcastle
Co-organised at Newcastle University. Chaired session on 'Wild Weather'.
Jan 2024: Royal Meteorological Society Meeting: Insurance Special Interest Group
Navigating Climate Challenges in Insurance: Emerging, Mulit-hazard and Compound events group leader.
Jan 2024: Royal Meteorological Society Meeting: Edinburgh
Presentations on How can we move towards climate resilient power systems?
Jan 2024: Climate Change Committee consultancy
Developing weather-dependent stress tests for the UK energy sector.
Nov 2023: Next-level energy-climate research to support the transition to climate-proof net zero energy systems
Workshop organsied in Zif institute in Germany.
Oct 2023: Newcastle University Podcast
Early Career Researcher Stories
Oct 2023: Seminar at Loughborough University
Presentations on Compound wind and flood risks: impacts and meteorological drivers.
Sep 2023: National Climate Impacts and Risks Meeting and Trip to UK Met Office
Presentations on how can we move towards climate resilient power systems?
August 2023: National Grid Network Innovation Allowance funding
In collaboration with TNEI and Strathclyde Univeristy to develop long-term decarbonisation scenarios for the UK Gas sector..
July 2023: Workshop on highly renewable energy systems
Keynote talk and workshop organiser as part of the project 'The future of UK Offshore wind power' at University of Bristol.
June 2023: Started Academic Track fellowship at Newcastle University
Topic: How can we get to climate resilient net-zero energy systems in the UK and developing regions?
June 2023: "HYDRA" NERC grant commenced
A project in collaboration with Loughborough, Newcastle and Birmingham Universities as well as National Rail, to look at compound hazards for the rail sector.
May 2023: SPATUS conference on climate, weather and carbon risk in energy and finance
Invited talk on Using multi-decadal meteorological datasets to understand extreme events in present and future energy systems
Apr 2023: RMetSoc event for Insurance Sector
Organised with the RMetSoc Insurance Special Interest Grand Challenges Event
Mar 2023: Bristol 24/7 Podcast
Is Bristol taking the lead on wind energy?
Mar 2023: WMO Report Published Integrated Weather and Climate Services in Support of Net Zero Energy Transition (WMO-No. 1312)
Mar 2023: SUPERGEN Risk Day, City of London University
Presented work on: How can compound wind-flood risks impact UK infrastructure?
Feb 2023: Meeting Report RMetS Climate Change Forum 2022
a vision for 2050 and implications for action
Feb 2023: RMetSoc event for Insurance Sector
Organised the RMetSoc Insurance Special Interest Group 2022 Journal Paper Showcase
Jan 2023: Paper Accepted on Compound wind-flood events
Work in Collaboration with colleagues from the Centre for Greening Finance and Investment on co-occuring extreme flooding and wind" across Europe.
Jan 2023: Compound events Conference in Glasgow
Attended stakeholder events workshop as part of the DAMOCLES COST action.
Jan 2023: Paper Accepted on Compound cold-still events
Work in Collaboration with Paulina Tedesco at the University of Oslo to investigate compound cold-and-low-wind events across Europe
Dec 2022: Attended AGU
Presented my work on international energy-met datasets and compound wind-flood risk.
Nov 2022: "HYDRA" NERC grant funded
A project in collaboration with Loughborough, Newcastle and Birmingham Universities as well as National Rail, to look at compound hazards for the rail sector.
Nov 2022: Paper Accepted on Renewable Energy Droughts
Work in Collaboration with Noelia Otero at the University of Bern to investigate compound high demand and renewable energy droughts events across Europe.
Oct 2022: Paper accepted on African Energy-met
Investigating the potenital for wind and solar power over Kenya and Senegal with Dr Caroline Wainwright
Sep 2022: NextGen Conference
Organised education session and co-ran extreme events session at the Next Generation Challenges in Energy and Climate modelling conference.
July 2022: Offshore wind energy project funded
Project on The Future Of UK Offshore Wind Power to continue MSc work by Josh Giddings
Jun 2022: Paper accepted on future of energy-climate modelling
Working collaboratively as part of the href = "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2542435122002379" > Next Generation Challenges in Energy and Climate Modelling group.