The Team

Jennifer joined CEDA in 2019 and works as a project manager across a number of different projects. Prior to this she was a Technology Consultant at Accenture for over 5 years working with numerous clients across different industries. Jennifer holds a PhD in Physical Chemistry and an MSci (Hons) in Chemistry, both from the University of Bristol. Her PhD research involved use of both the Diamond Synchrotron, Harwell and ESRF in Grenoble, France.

Katie joined CEDA in March 2022 as a Project Manager. She previously worked at RAL Space as a Project Support Officer. At CEDA, Katie is working on the Net Zero Digital Research Infrastructure Scoping Project and various Horizon Projects. 

Steve joined the NEODC in 2003 after completing his PhD at the Open University using remote sensing and field methods to study active Volcanism.  Before this Steve had completed a degree in Earth Science and an MSc in Earth Observation Science at Leicester University.  Steve used his experience in the NEODC looking after such diverse datasets as the ARSF and ATSR and AATSR multimission datasets. As part of CEDA, Steve now looks after the retrieval of Sentinel data and various services associated with this.  Steve continues to look after other EO datasets such as ATSR, and is also a member of the CEDA metadata system team. 

Wendy ensures that CEDA meets its targets to provide data management support for NERC funded projects in the atmospheric and earth observation fields.  She has particular interest in ground-based and airborne observations and is responsible for all of CEDAs aircraft datasets including the FAAM aircraft, NERC-ARF and the European Facility for Airborne Research. She joined CEDA in 2003 following a postdoctoral fellowship studying urban air quality and has a PhD in Atmospheric Physics from Aberystwyth which used sonde and aircraft observations to study tropospheric ozone.

Hayley joined CEDA in 2015 as a helpdesk operator making her the first point of contact between CEDA and the global research community. In addition to this, Hayley also has responsibility for data science tasks such as updating and editing the CEDA data catalogue and cataloguing data about solar plates for the UKSSDC.

Hayley is currently studying towards a BSc(Hons) in Earth Science with Astronomy and Planetary Science at the Open University and holds a Distinction in Meteorology level 3 certificate.

Andrew joined CEDA in 1998 and has been involved in the IT infrastructure that supports CEDA’s work ever since. He currently looks after the various software services that CEDA run and occasionally gets to write a bit of code as well.

Adrian joined CEDA in 2022 in the role of Director of JASMIN, with responsibility for oversight of the storage, compute and cloud services provided by JASMIN to the environmental science community.

Prior to taking on this role, Adrian spent over twenty years working with weather and climate models at the Met Office. During this period, he initially worked on ocean forecast systems, building on his PhD in ocean modelling, before moving on to work on coupled models for climate and for weather forecasting applications. Adrian then spent six years leading the Met Office Applied Science team, gaining experience of the challenges of deriving useful and actionable information from model data. Adrian subsequently took on leadership of the Met Office Climate Science IT team, moving into the underpinning technical aspects of the science work. The included oversight of work to develop technical infrastructure for modelling and tools for data processing, analysis and delivery.

Matt joined CEDA in 2018 after completing a PhD investigating Big Data analysis in Atmospheric Science. He is responsible for supporting and developing applications for JASMIN, as well as operational support for JASMIN, focussing on cloud and storage.

Philip leads the Centre of Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA), a division of data scientists and software developers providing data and information services for the environmental sciences community on behalf of NERC.

Prior to taking on the role of head, he was Technical Manager for CEDA with responsibility for the development of software and computing services, providing the technical vision, leadership and oversight of development work. He has led the development of cloud computing services for the JASMIN computing facility.

He chairs the UKRI Working Group on cloud computing and is co-chair of the Executive Committee for Earth System Grid Federation, a globally distributed software infrastructure for sharing Earth sciences data. Prior to joining CEDA in 2003, he worked on the development of software applications for a variety of space science and Earth observation applications with RAL Space and working in industry. His graduate degree was in Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Salford.

Jack joined CEDA as a software developer in 2021 after completing a PhD in Plasma Physics at the University of Liverpool. At CEDA, Jack is working on overhauling the joint-storage migration application (JDMA) to make using tape- and object-storage a more seamless process for JASMIN users.

Neil joined CEDA in 2016 after working on the climateprediction.net and weather@home projects at the University of Oxford for 12 years, during which he gained a DPhil. in Atmospheric Physics.

At CEDA, Neil is using his experience of large datasets to develop solutions to storing and accessing the very large volume of data held on JASMIN at CEDA, both in user's group workspaces and in the archive. These solutions involve using new storage technology, such as object stores and scale-out filesystems, and novel methods to exploit existing technology such as tape and parallel file systems.

Alison joined CEDA in 2003, having previously worked for 14 years at the Met Office.

Alison has experience of working with a wide range of data types, from high-resolution near real time radar data, to satellite remote sensing data and climate model output. She has also worked on climate model development. Her current role at CEDA is to support scientists throughout the international atmospheric and climate science communities in using data standards to facilitate data exchange and interoperability. Alison participates in a number of training activities such as the CEDA webinar series and the NCAS Introduction to Scientific Computing Course.

Charlotte has extensive experience of the development and application of data models for climate science. Her work has supported model documentation for both the CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate model intercomparison projects.   She is an associate member of the IPCC-Data Task Group and works on the IPCC Data Distribution Centre where the focus of her work is making climate data available to the wider climate science community.

Graham has responsibility for observational data (e.g radar, lidar, surface met) from our atmospheric community, drawing on his skills and knowledge gained since he joined CEDA in 2007 on the back of his atmospheric physics PhD. His PhD used the UK’s MST radar near Aberystwyth to produce a climatology of strong winds in the free troposphere over the British Isles with a focus on Sting Jets - a subject that still captures his interest.

Sam joined the team in 1996 (then known as the British Atmospheric Data Centre) and is now the curation manager for the CEDA Archive. His principal role is to oversee all operational aspects of preserving data and making it accessible. This covers the fundamentals of just keeping the data files secure to managing the complexities of licenses. Before working for CEDA he was a postdoctoral atmospheric Science researcher at Aberystwyth university. Sam is also regularly called upon by wider groups within NERC to assist in the continued improvement of curation practices across all of NERC data centres.

Matt is responsible for the delivery of JASMIN as a service to its user community, including CEDA. He liaises with staff in STFC’s Scientific Computing Department responsible for operating JASMIN’s infrastructure components (storage, network, compute) and leads the team tasked with supporting users to gain access to, and exploit JASMIN effectively for their scientific needs.

He started at RAL in 2000, initially helping to establish the NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC), now part of the CEDA Archive.

He holds a BSc in Geophysics (Geological) from the University of Leicester and a PhD from the University of Durham, where he used global earthquake data to study the structure of the Earth’s mantle beneath Iceland.

Elle joined the CEDA software development team in 2019 through the graduate scheme after completing a BSc in Physics with study abroad at Durham University.

Ag manages a number of activities and engages with many external groups. Based in Exeter, he has a particular focus on our interactions with the Met Office. He oversees the data pipeline that delivers Petabytes of climate simulations through the Model Intercomparison Projects (such as CMIP5/6) and looks after the UK Climate Projections User Interface which is managed by CEDA and runs on the JASMIN platform. Ag has a keen interest in developing better tools for improving data curation, management and delivery. He also oversees the CEDA training programme.

Poppy’s role as Communications Manager is to promote the work of CEDA to users, partner organisations, funders and the general public. This is achieved via a range of external communications including, but not limited to; writing website content, managing social media channels, scheduling events like workshops and webinars, and supporting stakeholder or public engagement events. Poppy also manages user support via the helpdesk. 

Poppy's previous role at CEDA was as a Data Scientist, responsible for providing data management support to researchers, predominantly for projects funded by the Natural Environment Research Council.

Poppy holds a MSc in Science Communication from UWE Bristol and a BSc in Ocean Science from Plymouth University.

William joined CEDA in 2015 after completing a degree in Software Engineering at Aberystwyth University. He utilises his experience with web development and security to improve and maintain CEDA's various web services, as well as the rest of its ever-expanding software infrastructure.

Ed joined CEDA through the graduate scheme following a degree in Meteorology and Climate Science at Reading. Ed’s role within CEDA is working on the Sentinel datasets as well as other large satellite missions.