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Senior Scientist, National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, UK (August 2019 - present).
Secondment- Research Scientist (part-time, 50%), University of Liverpool, UK (May 2020 - present).
Post-doctoral Research Associate in Ocean Sciences, Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK (Sept. 2016 - August 2019).
PhD in Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (2010-2016). Thesis: Non-linear coupling of scales of ocean variability and implications for downscaling
MSc in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (2008-2010). Thesis: Sea Ice Data Assimilation for the Canadian East Coast
Ptychio (BSc Hons) in Physics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece (2003-2008). Thesis: Simulating and forecasting erythemal radiation time series using artificial neural networks
Co-Steering the endorsed UN Ocean Decade Action “Future Coastal Ocean Climates” (FLAME) hosted by CoastPredict
Research grants
- 2025-2028 Co-I and NOC-PI, Horizon 2020 (EU funds) grant SEAClim: European SEAs CLIMate impact prediction through regional models.
- 2023-2026 Co-I, NERC CCROC grant Role of the Overturning Circulation in Carbon Accumulation (ROCCA).
- 2023-2024 NOC-PI, NERC standard grant AsymO-HC - funding transfer through a Collaboration Agreement.
- 2020-2023 Named Researcher Co-I, NERC standard grant Asymmetries in ocean heat and carbon uptake, and effects on marine hazards (AsymO-HC) .
Published in the leading Ocean and Climate Sciences journals: Nature Geoscience, Journal of Climate, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, Biogeosciences, Ocean Modelling, Environmental Research Letters, PNAS.
6 of my papers are used and referenced in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, AR6: Papers 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 in my list of publications.
Presentations to major national and international conferences (selected)
- April/May 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2014: European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU)
- February 2024, 2022, 2020, 2018: Ocean Sciences meeting, AGU
- September 2018, 2024: Challenger Society Conference
- June 2014, 2012, 2010: Canadian Meteorological/Oceanographic Society Congress
Invited visits and talks (selected)
- April 2024, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, CMCC, Italy.
- November 2022 University of Cambridge, UK.
- March 2022, Princeton University, USA (virtual seminar).
- January 2019, The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.
- August 2018, The University of Bern.
Diverse proven expertise in (demonstrated by my publications): ocean and climate sciences, shelf seas dynamics, numerical modelling for ocean/climate, downscaling methods for regional models, statistical methods for analysis and reconstruction of Earth system observations.