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I am a Senior Lecturer in Hydrology and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow based 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.
I am an elected ordinary committee member for the British Hydrological Society.
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 £38M large-scale investment in flood and drought research infrastructure in the UK and (2) informing the development of new water infrastructure as part of the Ofwat-funded RAPID programme.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Resubmission of Smart water data to reveal and manage water pollution risks across scales in real-time
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design EngineeringDates
01/11/2023 to 31/10/2028
Uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis for infrastructure systems modelling
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/10/2023 to 31/03/2025
Uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis for resilient infrastructure systems
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Computational modelling provides a vital tool to support infrastructure decisions, allowing to evaluate risks and benefits of different infrastructure options on a virtual system (or digital twin) before committing to…Managing organisational unit
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design EngineeringDates
01/10/2023 to 31/03/2025
Flood and Drought Research Infrastructure - Planning Phase
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/07/2022 to 31/03/2024
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
Thesis supervisions
Addressing the challenges of catchment characterisation, model selection and evaluation in large-sample hydrology
Supervisors
Quantifying the efficacy of Natural Flood Management in agricultural headwater catchments
Supervisors
National-scale hydrological modelling of high flows across Great Britain
Supervisors
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
15/05/2023Developing an operational model to support groundwater management decision-making in the UK
A Framework for Estimating the Probability Distribution of Event Runoff Coefficient in Ungauged Catchments
Water Resources Research
An enhanced version of the D-Risk decision support webtool for multi-scale management of water abstraction and drought risks in irrigated agriculture
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
A priori selection of hydrological model structures in modular modelling frameworks
Hydrological Sciences Journal
A snow and glacier hydrological model for large catchments
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences