Staff who's who

The following is a list of Departmental staff and their current responsibilities.

Faculty

Prof Brian Hoskins

Head of Department

Prof Alan Thorpe

finance; accommodation; security; planning of new building

Dr Anthony Illingworth

reader; supervisor of laboratories and workshops and associated technical staff

Dr Ian James

senior lecturer; admissions and course tutor for research students; planning of new building

Dr Mike Pedder

senior lecturer; deputy Head of Department; undergraduate student admissions and course tutor; supervisor of meteorological technicians

Dr Keith Shine

reader; course tutor for MSc course in "weather, climate and modelling"

Dr Paul Valdes

reader; supervisor of computing and computing staff

Dr Stephen Belcher

lecturer; supervisor of the library and librarian; library ordering

Dr George Craig

lecturer; examinations officer

Dr Debbie Fish

lecturer

Dr Giles Harrison

lecturer

Dr David Marshall

lecturer; organiser of staff-student committee

Dr Chris Thorncroft

lecturer; admissions tutor for MSc course in "weather, climate and modelling"

Other teaching staff

Prof Keith Browning

director Joint Centre for Mesoscale Meteorology

Prof Alan O'Neill

director Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling

Dr David Grimes

teaching fellow; admissions and course tutor for MSc course in "applied and agricultural meteorology"

Dr Jason Lander

computer programmer (research)

Mr Ross Reynolds

teaching fellow; timetable and room bookings

Dr Ray Saktreger

Departmental computer programmer

Office staff

Mrs Christine MacFarlane

part-time secretary

Mrs Rosemarie Jahans

Departmental secretary

Mrs Denise Larkin

secretary to Head of Department; supervisor of Departmental office

Mrs Joan Twyford

part-time secretary; research contract accounts

Technical staff

Mr Malcolm Cantwell

chief technician; safety officer

Ms Teresa Cole

part-time meteorological technician; computer and video loans; PC disks

Mr Roger Knight

electronics technician

Mr Andrew Lomas

technician; Departmental ordering and inventory

Ms Jane Marsden

part-time librarian

Mr Stuart May

junior technician

Mr Ken Spiers

meteorological technician and observer; draughtsperson

Research Staff

There are many post-doctoral and post-graduate research assistants and computer staff employed on various research projects in the Department. For details of the research, see the research pages, and for a complete list of staff, see the Departmental directory.