Harriet Gilmour

Harriet is a PhD student in the Maths and Statistics department. Her research focuses on convective storms and associated rainfall extremes over South America and how these may change in a warming climate. This is achieved using state-of-the-art multi-year convection-permitting model simulations recently run by the UK Met Office. Harriet is particularly interested in Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs) - very large storms of organised deep convection that often have damaging impacts.

Harriet graduated from Lancaster University in 2022 with an MSc in Natural Sciences (including a year of study at Oregon State University, USA).

She is part of the NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership, and is supervised by Prof. Robin Chadwick and Prof. Jennifer Catto at Exeter, Dr Kate Halladay at the Met Office and Dr Neil Hart at the University of Oxford.