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Victoria Barlow

AMMA 2050

Role: Project Manager

Victoria is an experienced Project Manager, working in PR & Marketing & Education before her current post at UKCEH. She manages several large UK based and International projects, multi-sectoral & disciplinary, co-ordinating numerous and diverse stakeholders. Victoria’s role includes project planning, co-ordination and disseminating project outputs to the wider public, including private sector, academia and policy makers.

Camilla Audia

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Camilla is a postdoctoral researcher with a passion for investigating wicked problems and my work focuses on natural resources and especially land management, climate change resilience, indigenous knowledge systems and disaster risk reduction/management in Sub Saharan Africa. Camilla is interested in interdisciplinary research, interactive teaching techniques and active learning for different disciplines. She is always looking for new academic adventures, consultancy opportunities and publications. Camilla is currently based at King’s College London, with teaching responsibilities at University of Northampton and research collaborations with University of Sussex.

Tanya Warnaars

AMMA 2050

Role: Project Manager

Tanya is an experienced project manager with a background in eco-hydrology. She manages several large multi-sectoral international projects, coordinating numerous and diverse project partners (Europe, Latin America, Africa). Her role includes disseminating project outputs to the wider public, including private sector and policy makers. Previously she held a Knowledge Exchange fellowship with NERC on climate change and water scarcity. Tanya holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and an Msc, in Esturarine and Coastal Science Management from the University of Hull.

Christopher Taylor

AMMA 2050, IMPALA

Role: Principal Investigator

The principal lead of AMMA-2050, Chris is interested in how the properties of the land surface: soil moisture and vegetation cover, influence weather and climate. His work has been motivated by the need to understand the climate of semi-arid regions in West Africa. For IMPALA, Chris aims to deliver an Afro-centric development of aspects of the Met Office Unified Model and improve aspects of the land surface model JULES in its simulation of surface energy and water fluxes over typical African landscapes.

David Adukpo

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

David is a researcher with the Department of Physics, within the School of Physical Sciences, College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana

François Affholder

AMMA 2050

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Francois is an agronomist and an Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD) researcher. He holds a Ph.D. in Agronomy and Crop Science from Agro Paris Tech, Paris, France. His personal interests include rock climbing and skiing.

Rondrotiana Barimalala

AMMA 2050, UMFULA

Role: Early Career Researcher

A post-doc researcher at UCT, Rondro was previously at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Her research interest spans climate and ocean dynamics, variability and modelling. Within UMFULA, she will investigate the role of the tropical Indian Ocean on Central and Southern Africa climate variability.

Maimouna Bologo-Traore

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Lecturer and Researcher in Water management and sanitation in rural and urban areas.

Adama Bamba

AMMA 2050

Role: Early Career Researcher

Adama did his Ph.D. in meteorology and climate science at the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) in Nigeria. Since January 2016 he has been recruited as an assistant lecturer and researcher at the laboratory of atmospheric physics and fluid mechanics of physic department of University Felix Houphouet Boigny (UFHB), Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. Adama is working as a researcher on the AMMA-2050 project on behalf of UFHB and research board member of African Excellence Center on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture. He also does some consultancy in the climate change domain.

Victoria Bell

AMMA 2050

Role: Co- Principal Investigator

Victoria leads the Hydrological Modelling and Risk (HMR) Group at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in Wallingford. Her current research interests include the development of a grid-based, integrated model to estimate large scale pools and fluxes of nutrients across the UK, national-scale drought modelling, development of hydrological methodology and models for national scale (Great Britain), analysis of flood risk to infrastructure systems and a UK-wide seasonal hydrological forecast system.

Adeline Barnaud

AMMA 2050

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

The main focus of Adeline’s research is to understand how biodiversity of tropical plants is shaped through evolutionary forces resulting from human and environmental impacts. The main activity of her research group at the Research Institute for Development (IRD) focuses on population genetics but also integrates a multidisciplinary approach including ecology, botany, molecular phylogenetics and anthropology working in Senegal, Cameroon, Niger, and Peru.

Ben Booth

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Ben is a climate scientist at the UK’s Met Office. A big part of his work involves trying to quantify the plausible spread of future changes that are consistent with the current knowledge of climate processes.

Andrew Challinor

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Andy is Professor of Climate Impacts at the University of Leeds. He began his career with a Ph.D. at the University of Leeds on boundary layer flow through forests, moving to postdoctoral research on the impacts of climate variability and change on food crops at Reading. Andy led the NERC consortium End-to-end quantification of uncertainty for impacts prediction (EQUIP) and leads work on Climate Smart Agriculture for Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). He was Lead Author on the ‘Food Production Systems and Food Security’ chapter of the Fifth Assessment report of the IPCC.

Moussa Diakhate

AMMA 2050

Role: Early Career Researcher

Moussa is a postdoctoral researcher at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal. Moussa’s research interests are Local air-sea interaction, Ocean impacts with continental climate & Climate models bias. Moussa holds a Ph.D. in the Earth and Environmental Sciences from the Pierre and Marie Curie University, as well as a Masters degree in Meteorology, Oceanography and Arid Environments from the Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique of Dakar in Senegal.

Arona Diedhiou

AMMA 2050

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Arona is a research director at the Institute of Research for Development (IRD), University of Grenoble, France. Arona is currently working on hydroclimatic variability and on the environmental factors associated with extreme events over Africa (floods, drought, wet and dry spells, heat waves). His academic background is in atmospheric physics, climatology, and mathematics. He has a PhD in Meteorology from University of Paris XII, France

Aida Diongue-Niang

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Adia is currently the Director of Meteorology at the National Agency of Civil Aviation and Meteorology in Dakar, Senegal

Gino Fox

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Gino is a research fellow in Geography at Susssex University. Gino has over 25 years experience in social and economic development. Over the past 12 years he has worked as a management consultant within the public sector and housing associations specialising in social value, employment, partnership building and community engagement and governance. Gino holds a BA Honours in Environmental Studies from Sheffield Hallam University.

Rory Fitzpatrick

AMMA 2050

Role: Early Career Researcher

Rory is a postgraduate student at the University of Leeds. His research interest is focused on predicting the West African Monsoon. Rory holds an Msc in Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics from the University of Leeds and his field of expertise is in climatology, climate variability, climate dynamics, climate modelling and meteorology.

Francoise Guichard

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Francoise is with the Mesoscale, Meteorologie Group at the National Centre for Meteorological Research.

Amadou Gaye

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Prof. Amadou Gaye is a scientist and Director of the Physics Laboratory of the Atmosphere and the Ocean at UCAD and is specialised in rainfall variability related to the African monsoon. He is very much active on analysis of climate simulations for climate change and variability issues. He is involved in the coordination of African scientists working on Climate. He has been Project Investigator for several research projects.

Helen Andrea Houghton-Carr

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Helen leads research in water resource assessment and management within CEH, with a strong background in African research. She leads team at CEH working on developing, testing and applying the GWAVA water resource model. Her interests lie in building research capacity, and in building technical capacity in national hydrological agencies to manage water resources effectively and sustainably.

Andy Hartley

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Andy analyses the risks of climate change, in order to help people, businesses, governments, and NGOs adapt to climate change. Andy’s work aims to develop tools and methodologies for the assessment of the risks of climate change, with a focus on the multi-disciplinary nature of risk analysis. He has used his analytical skills in a variety of projects such as the risks of climate change on key species and ecosystems and the visualisation of global sea-level rise hazards.

Serge Janicot

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Serge is currently the research director at the Institut de Recherche Pour La Developpement (IRD). He holds a Ph.D. degree and his thesis focused on Climate Variability in Africa from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI). His research interests are in climatology, meteorology, atmospheric sciences, atmospheric physics, hydrometeorology, climate change and African climate.

Ndjido Kane

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Dr Ndjido Kane is a geneticist and plant molecular biologist with strong expertise in crop evolution, adaptation and mitigations to environmental stress. He is working to preserve and exploit the genetic diversity of cereals in previsions of a climate change and for growing population’s needs. Ndjido holds a Phd in Biology from the University of Quebec as well as Post-doctorate degree from the Center for Research and Technology.

Harouna Karambiri

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Harrouna is a Lecturer in Hydrology and Hydraulics Applied at the International Engineering Institute of Water and Environment (2iE). He holds a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Geostatistics, and Water geochemistry from the National School of Mines in Paris (France) and a PhD in Geosciences and Natural Resources from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France.

Cornelia Klein

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Cornelia has a background in atmospheric modelling with the Weather Research & Forecasting model (WRF). Currently she is focused on remote sensing data to analyse characteristics of high impact weather in West Africa. Cornelia is interested in how and at which scales surface characteristics may impact the West African monsoon system and the occurrence or maintenance of convective systems. Cornelia holds a Diploma degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in Environmental Engineering from TU Berlin, Germany and a Phd from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Kouadio Kouakou

AMMA 2050

Role: Early Career Researcher

Kouadio completed his Ph.D. in Meteorology and Climate Science from the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), Nigeria. He is currently at Formation Doctorale Climat, Ressources Naturelles et Innovations (FD CRNI) and the supercomputer centre, from the Université Félix Houphouët Boigny in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He is a research board member of African Excellence Center on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture (CEA-CCBAD). Furthermore, he is involved in the AMMA-2050 project on behalf of UFHB through work package 2.

Nana Klutse

AMMA 2050

Role: Early Career Researcher

Dr. Nana Ama Browne Klutse is a Senior Research Scientist at the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute and Manager of the Remote Sensing and Climate Centre at the Institute. She has a Physics background and holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her area of specialization is climatology and her present research focuses on topics in earth observations, climate modelling and climate impact assessments on society. She has worked on both national and international projects and consultancies including the Climate and Health project in Ghana.

Dominic Kniveton

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Dominic is Professor of Climate Change and Society at the University of Sussex. His research concerns both the impact of climate change on society and how to improve the use of climate information. In particular his recent research has explored the nexus of environmental change and migration and the development of methodologies including combining agent based modelling with Q methodology to explore the intersection of the natural and social sciences.

James Miller

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

James previous area of work involved applied hydrology in the consultancy sector, utilizing hydrological and hydraulic models to determine the impacts of developments on flood risk and assessing water supply scenarios. He has also been a volunteer working in Indonesia on a community flood management project, developing the knowledge and commitment of local residents in managing their local environment and building rainfall harvesting systems.

Siny Ndoye

AMMA 2050

Role: Early Career Researcher

Dr. Siny Ndoye holds a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar and University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris. His Ph.D. research interests are the investigation of the dynamical functioning of the Senegal upwelling using satellite images, in situ data and state-of-the-art 3D numerical simulations. In Postdoctorate, he works on the project: the SCUC-2050 : Exploring the future of the Southern Canary Upwelling System funded by FCFA: Innovation Fund. His research interests include regional ocean modelling and hydrology and circulation of the southern Canary system.

Francis Nkrumah

AMMA 2050

Role: Early Career Researcher

Francis is a Ph.D. student with the Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics section at the Department of Physics, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He is now working on the Evolution of Extreme Rainfall Events and its Dynamics over the Southern West Africa. He holds a BSc. and MSc. in Physics (Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics option) from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. His research interests are primarily in regional climate change, climate modelling, climate extremes, West African monsoon and its dynamics, time series analysis and methodologies in investigating atmospheric processes.

Kathryn Nicklin

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Kathryn is a research fellow in the Climate Impacts Group, which is part of the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science at Leeds University. Her work focuses on the use of seasonal and decadal forecasts in the prediction of crop yields. Kathryn holds an MSc. degree in Physics from Oxford University as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Leeds where her thesis focused on seasonal crop yield forecasting in semi-arid West Africa.

Ousmane Ndiaye

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Ousmane heads the research and application groups at the National Civil Aviation and Meteorology Service (ANACIM) in Senegal. Ousmane studied meteorology engineering and physics, and then went on to get a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Ousmane is an expert on seasonal and monsoon forecasting and aims to foster dialogue between climate and weather experts with the hopes of enabling and encouraging farmers, herders and health workers, among others, to use climate information and related farming tips in their decision making.

Douglas Parker

AMMA 2050, IMPALA

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Doug is a lecturer in the School of Earth and Environment at Leeds University where he leads a strong research group studying climate dynamics of Africa, with a track record of collaborative work in the region. His research focuses on the physics and dynamics of weather systems, and their interaction with regional climate systems. Douglas holds an M.A. degree in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Reading.

Geremy Panthou

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Geremy is a research scientist at Grenoble Institute of Technology. He has a BSc. degree from Avignon University, and an MSc. and Ph.D. from Grenoble University. His thesis was on Extreme Rainfall Analysis and Evolution in the West African region. His research interests focus on climatology, hydro-meteorology, hydrology, West African monsoon (especially rainfall and hydrological regimes), water cycle intensification, time-series analysis (detection/attribution), and extreme rainfall analyses (characterization, evolution, scale issues).

Ponnambalam Rameshwaran

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Rameshwarah’s research interests are within river hydraulics, hydraulic and hydrological modelling, flood conveyance, turbulence measurements and modelling, flood and drought impact, fluvial ecosystems and physical habitat modelling, agro-hydrological modelling, irrigation water use efficiency, brackish water irrigation and yield response. Rameshwarah has a BSc. Honours in Civil and Structural Engineering from the University of Bradford, an MPhil from the University of Wales and a Ph.d. from the University of Aberdeen.

Philippe Roudier

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Philippe works with LOCEAN. His research interests are climate change impacts on agriculture in West Africa, crop modelling, seasonal forecasting, and hydrology.

Dave Rowell

AMMA 2050, HyCRISTAL

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Dave’s main areas of expertise are African climate variability and change, and the mechanisms and uncertainty of future regional climate change, using both General Circulation Model (GCM) and observational data. Other research interests have included European climate change, atmospheric decadal variability, and global seasonal predictability. Dave graduated from the University of York, then completed a Ph.D. at the University of Reading in short-range rainfall forecasting over the Sahel.

Benjamin Sultan

AMMA 2050

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Benjamin Sultan is a senior researcher specialised in Climate variability; predicting Societal impacts of climate variability and crop modelling. He leads research in climate change and its impacts on agriculture in West Africa.

Youssouph Sane

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Youssouph is a researcher with the National Agency of Civil Aviation and Meteorology (ANACIM). His research interest is in the evolution of the monsoon in West Africa. He analyses extreme weather events and their impact on the different hydrological cycles in West Africa.

Fowe Tazen

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Fowe is a researcher in hydrology and water resources. Fowe’s specific interest lies in the impact of global change on water resources in the Sahel and West African regions.

Laure Tall Diouf

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Laure is a researcher with the Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA). Laure’s research interests are in soil fertility, nutrient cycling in soils, legume-based systems and intercropping and greenhouse gas (CH4 and N2O) emissions in agricultural systems. Laure holds a BSc. in Biology, and an Msc. and Ph.D. in Environmental Biology from the University of Montreal.

Yves Vigouroux

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Yves’ research focuses on studying how evolutionary processes shaped population and genome diversity. His research group at the Research Institute for Development (IRD) focuses primarily on cultivated crops and their wild relatives. With cultivated crops, they also seek to understand how human activities and historical events shaped their diversity. Yves holds a Master in Ecology and Evolution from University Montpellier II, France and a Ph.D. from the University of Burgundy.

Theo Vischel

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Theo is a lecturer in Hydrology at the University of Grenoble. Theo’s research interests centre around the long-term evolution of the hydro-climatic systems to better address drought and flood hazards. He has further skills and expertise in climatology, hydrometeorological hazards, statistical hydrology, stochastic simulations and hydrological modelling. Theo holds an MSc. degree in Mechanics, Geophysics and Environment from Joseph Fourier University and a Ph.d. in Ocean, Atmosphere and Hydrology from Grenoble Institute of Technology.

Emma Visman

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Emma is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London in the Geography Department. She has worked with humanitarian and development operational and policy research organisations for over twenty years. She was awarded a Knowledge Exchange Fellowship with NERC to support strengthened dialogue between the providers and users of science for strengthening resilience amongst at risk groups. Emma has a BA. in Swahili and African Art and Archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies and an MA. in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex.

Catherine Wilcox

AMMA 2050

Role: Researcher

Catherine is a graduate environmental and civil engineer (hydrology) and has most recently consulted for UNESCO. She gained invaluable practical engineering skills whilst being involved in multiple internships and training programs. Catherine is skilled in technical writing, fieldwork, lab work, and research techniques. Motivated by work that has a positive impact on society and the environment. Catherine is currently a Ph.D. student at Grenoble University and holds an MSc. in Water and Environmental Engineering from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology.