I obtained a degree in Civil Engineering and a PhD in Atmospheric Science and Modelling from the University of Nottingham, UK. The core of my research work at the University of Nottingham has been heavily geared towards understanding and developing solutions to major environmental problems related to air pollution, water quality and climate change.

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I designed Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations to investigate how trees influenced air flow and pollutant dispersal within an urban street canyon and developed a water quality model which incorporates physical, chemical and biological parameters as part of my early research work. For my doctoral work, I had the opportunity to work in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), the University of Iowa and the National University of Singapore to design numerical weather simulations to study the transport of biomass-burning haze from forest fire hotspots over the Maritime Continent as part of the Seven Southeast Asian Studies (7-SEAS) project organised by NASA.

 

As a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Waterloo, Canada, I had the opportunity to lead a panoply of projects related to projected trends of drought and winter severity and impacts of climate change, remote sensing and satellite performance and computational modelling of the atmosphere.

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I currently work as senior catastrophe management consultant at RSA Canada, where I help characterise weather and climate risks and impacts.

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