About

🖱 A photo of me standing on Snowdon. I’m a climate scientist working at the University of Exeter. My research is principally concerned with tipping points in the climate system; I am interested both in the processes that lead to them and also how we can get early warning signals for tipping points in a system agnostic way.

My research grapples with the fundamentally non-autonomous nature of tipping in rapidly forced systems like the climate. This leads to interesting phenomena like rate dependence and overshoot behaviour.

I have a particular interest in tipping within the terrestrial carbon cycle, which is probably related to the fact that my PhD was supervised by Peter Cox.

More broadly I am interested in how approaches from statistical physics (the theory that describes the macroscopic behaviour emerging from systems comprised of many degrees of freedom) can be useful in climate science (the theory the describes the macroscopic behaviour emerging from the components of the Earth System).