Simon Driscoll

Dr. Simon Driscoll has a background training in pure and applied mathematics, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. Initially specialising in volcanic eruptions, stratospheric dynamics and geoengineering, he was part of the UK's StratosphericParticle for Climate Engineering project. Accordingly he has extensive experience in atmospheric physics and climate modelling. His research has been covered in various newspapers and books around the world and he has featured in a documentary on geoengineering for VRT (Belgian national TV). Excited by the power and revolutionary potential of machine learning and AI techniques he refocused his research on machine learning methods as part of the Schmidt Sciences funded Scale Aware Sea Ice project. Based at the University of Cambridge he primarily focuses on building emulators of sub-grid scale parametrisations as well as conducting research into the AI weather forecasting models and other applications of ML and AI in weather and climate.