Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Rachel is a senior scientist working on convection, she is the convection scheme code owner and works on improving the convective parameterization scheme in the Unified Model. Rachel started at the Met Office in 1985, working for 5 years on ocean wave modelling, she then moved to the Met Office Hadley Centre in 1991 spending the first 2 years building the Unified Model and then focussing on Climate Model Evaluation and Development.  Rachel holds a D.Phil in theoretical nuclear physics from Oxford University.