When selecting her as recipient of the Early Career Scientist Medal, the Bureau of IAMAS commented that Hannah Christensen's research 'demonstrates remarkable breadth, innovation, and impact', and that she has 'made substantial contributions to the scientific community through leadership and mentorship.'
Professor Christensen leads the Model Uncertainty Model Intercomparison Project (MU-MIP) under the World Weather Research and World Climate Research Programs, facilitating international collaboration to address key challenges in uncertainty representation. This project focuses on working out how to best give uncertainty estimates for weather and climate predictions, drawing together experts from across those two communities. The team includes contributors from around the world. Three of the postdocs working on this project are funded on a Leverhulme Trust project.
Professor Christensen was nominated for the Early Career Scientist Medal by President of the International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology (ICDM), who said that she “...adopts a scientific approach which tackles the hardest problems in meteorology by applying the most fundamental underlying physics.”
Professor Christensen said:
"I am really honoured to have been selected for this award. 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."
The Medal will be awarded to Professor Christensen at the IAMAS Assembly meeting (BACO-25) in Buscan in July 2025.
Hannah Christensen, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in Physics, and winner of the IMAS Early Career Scientist Medal 2025