Roman Binter has been funded by Lloyd's through the EPSRC CASE studentship scheme. With the aim of helping underwriters better understand the risks associated with climate change, Roman's PhD investigates how informative climate models are to decision making in the insurance industry.
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Daniel Hawellek has studied economics, mathematics and statistics in Hamburg, Cambridge and at the London School of Economics. His research interests are local moments, cumulants and dependency structures.
Thesis title: (Provisional) i-Shadowing in Dynamical Systems.
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Sarah Higgins is a part-time PhD student in CATS. Her thesis is on the link between weather and global cereal prices.
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Alex Jarman is a PhD research student involved in the CCCEP (Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy) research project entitled "Quantitative Applied Climate Economics", sponsored by reinsurance company, Munich Re. He graduated with a Physics degree from the University of Auckland, followed by a Masters in Applied Meteorology at the University of Reading where he was awarded a NERC studentship. His research interests include forecast evaluation and decision-making with forecast information, nonlinear time series analysis, and the physics and predictability of weather and climate. Contact details: Room Col7.02, +44 (0) 20 7955 6326, Email|
Edward Wheatcroft began his PhD in October 2010 as part of the NERC-funded RAPID-RAPIT project, acollaborative project led by the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. Edward will study the relationship between models and reality in the context of climate change. The research will work towards the design of ensemble experiments which can evaluate the spatial and temporal scales on which complex climate models can potentially provide quantitative information about the future real world climate.
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