Rachel Lowe is an ICREA Research Professor and Global Health Resilience Group Leader at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She also holds a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Rachel’s research focuses on co-developing policy-relevant methodological solutions, to enhance surveillance, preparedness and response to climate-sensiti...
Associate Professor Emma Hudson-Doyle works at the interface between physical and social science with a focus on communicating the science of natural hazards, developing effective forecasts and warnings, improving the communication of model uncertainty, and developing decision-relevant hazard and risk information. She is based at the Joint Centre for Disaster Research, Massey University, and is...
Dewald van Niekerk is Professor of Geography and founder of the African Centre for Disaster Studies at North-West University. As a social scientist, he applies the application of season-to-subseasonal (S2S) forecasts to enhance anticipatory governance, disaster risk reduction, and early warning systems. His focus is on integrating S2S information into decision-making processes to improve resili...
Juan Bazo is a climate scientist with a PhD in Climate Science from the University of Vigo, Spain, and over a decade of experience working at the intersection of climate science and humanitarian action in Latin America. My professional background includes research at the National Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Peru and academic roles in climate-related disciplines. Currently, I serv...
Roger Stone is Emeritus Professor of Climate Science and Director of the Centre for Applied Climate Sciences at the University of Southern Queensland, holding a PhD in Regional Climate Systems from the University of Queensland and an Honours degree and Diploma in Applied Science from RMIT and UQ; he began his career as an aviation meteorologist before earning his doctorate and moving into clima...
Arun Kumar, now retired, served as Principal Scientist at the Climate Prediction Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). He joined NCEP in 1990 as part of the Coupled Model Project, developing a dynamical seasonal prediction system, and received his Ph.D. from Florida State University (FSU) the same year. His research encompassed sub-seasonal and seasonal climate predictio...
Dr. Yuhei Takaya is a Senior Researcher at the Meteorological Research Institute of the Japan Meteorological Agency, specializing in climate dynamics, monsoons, atmosphere–land–ocean interactions, and sub-seasonal to seasonal prediction. Over the past two decades, he has made significant contributions to both research and operational climate prediction. Dr. Takaya has been actively involved i...
Dr Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay is Scientist F at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, where he leads high-resolution general circulation and mesoscale modelling research. He obtained his PhD in Physics from Pune University in 2005, following a BSc in 1985, an MSc in 1987, and an MTech in Atmospheric Science in 1990 from the University of Calcutta. His expertise encompasses ...
Ziqiang Han is a Professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Political Science and Public Administration, Qingdao Campus, Shandong University, China. He joined Shandong University’s Qingdao campus in June 2018 and supervises both doctoral and master's candidates in administration. He earned his PhD in Disaster Science and Management from the University of Delaware in July 2014, after co...
Dr Masilin Gudoshava is a Climate Modelling Expert at the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) in Nairobi, Kenya, and a Steering Group member for the WMO World Weather Research Programme’s Sub-seasonal Applications for Agriculture and Environment (SAGE) project (2024–2028), representing Regional Association I. She has over 10 years of experience in climate modelling utilizi...