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Research interests
I am a Lecturer in Hydrology within the Hydrology Group in the School of Geographical Sciences. My research focusses on understanding and predicting hydro-climatic extremes (floods and droughts) in changing environments. My expertise centres on building, applying and evaluating hydrological models for the improved simulation of water systems from local to continental scales across large samples of catchments. I built and co-developed the hydrological model DECIPHeR which is now used for hydrological predictions across the UK and led the development of the CAMELS-GB dataset consisting of hydrometeorological timeseries and landscape attributes for 671 catchments across the UK.
My team and I work closely with communities, water companies, and regulatory bodies across the UK, and are currently involved in projects on (1) delivering a blueprint for large-scale investment in flood and drought research infrastructure in the UK and (2) the Drought and Water Scarcity Programme.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship: Projecting extreme droughts in rapidly changing human-water systems
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/01/2022 to 31/12/2025
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship: Projecting extreme droughts in rapidly changing human-water systems
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/01/2022 to 31/12/2025
Floods and Droughts Scoping Phase
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/05/2020 to 31/03/2022
D-Risk2: Multi-scale management of irrigation abstraction and drought risks in UK
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/12/2019 to 31/12/2020
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Selected publications
12/10/2020CAMELS-GB: Hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for 671 catchments in Great Britain
Earth System Science Data
DECIPHeR v1
Geoscientific Model Development
The Spatial Dynamics of Droughts and Water Scarcity in England and Wales
Water Resources Research
Recent publications
21/01/2022Impacts of observational uncertainty on analysis and modelling of hydrological processes
Hydrological Processes
Streamflow droughts aggravated by human activities despite management
Environmental Research Letters
Benchmarking data-driven rainfall-runoff models in Great Britain
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Combined Modeling of US Fluvial, Pluvial, and Coastal Flood Hazard Under Current and Future Climates
Water Resources Research
How is baseflow index (bfi) impacted by water resource management practices?
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences