Hannah Christensen Awarded Early Career Scientist Medal

We're excited to announce that Wadham's Hannah Christensen, David Richardson Tutorial Fellow in Physics and Associate Professor in Physical Climate within the Department of Physics, has been awarded an Early Career Scientist Medal. The medal, awarded by the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS), was presented in recognition of the breadth, innovation, and high impact of her research.

Hannah's research concerns the role of uncertain small-scale processes on weather, seasonal and climate timescales and combines this understanding with expertise in numerical modelling to develop weather and climate models. Nomination for the award came from the President of the International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology, who stated that Hannah adopts “a scientific approach which tackles the hardest problems in meteorology by applying the most fundamental underlying physics.”

"I am really honoured to have been selected for this award," said Hannah. "I'd like to recognise in turn the many inspiring people I have been fortunate enough to work with, both past and present, whose hard work is also reflected in this award."

In addition to her research contribution, the award recognises Hannah's contributions to the scientific community through leadership and mentorship. An example is her leading of the Model Uncertainty Model Intercomparison Project (MU-MIP), an international collaboration on how to best give uncertainty estimates for weather and climate predictions.

Hannah highlights this project as a particularly big team effort, and thanks the Leverhulme Trust for funding three of the post-doctoral researchers working on it.

The Early Career Scientist Medal was awarded to Hannah at the IAMAS Assembly meeting at Busan, South Korea, July 22.

Wadham congratulates Prof Christensen on the wonderful achievement!