Professor James Haywood

Jim obtained his PhD from the Meteorology Department (supervisor Keith Shine, FRS) in 1995. Subsequently he worked as a Princeton University post-doctoral researcher at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, USA before joining the Met Office in 1998. He joined the University of Exeter in 2010 at 20%FTE, but has since moved to 100%FTE at the University of Exeter. 

Jim has won research grants in excess of £9m in the field of atmospheric science where his research focusses in particular on the role of atmospheric aerosols in climate and on the cooling impacts of aerosol to combat the impacts of climate change. 

Current GRAs/PDRAs and PhD students:

Dr Matthew Henry

Dr Ananth Ranjithkumar

Dr Meghna Soni

Mr Alex Mason

Dr Ellie Duncan

Dr Dan Williams

Dr Monisha Natchiar

Dr Jamie Knight

Mr Josh Smith

Dr Brittany Dygert

Former GRAs/PDRAs and PhD students include:

2019-2024: Alice Wells: now Post-doctoral researcher at Colorado State University, USA.

2024-2025: Lizzy Quaye: now PhD student at Imperial College, London.

2019-2023: Ju Liang: now Assistant Professor at China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.

2022-2023: Amy Peace: now senior scientist at Met Office Hadley Centre.

2020-2022: Ying Chen: now Assistant Professor at University of Birmingham.

2018-2022: Martin Osborne: now Senior Scientist at Met Office.

2015-2020: Fanny Peers: continued to scientist at LOA/Universite de Lille, France.

2016-2020: Michael Cotterell: now Associate Professor at University of Oxford.

2016-2019: Anthony Jones: now Research Manager at Met Office.

2011-2019: Florent Malavelle: now Senior Scientist at Met Office.

2015-2018: Matt Hawcroft: now Daphne Jackson Research Fellow and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford.

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Find out about my research in Aerosols, Clouds and Climate on our dedicated research webpage.