Ali Mashayek

I am an associate professor of climate dynamics in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Previously, I held positions at Imperial College London, University of Oxford, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and MIT. I received my PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics from the University of Toronto in 2013.

Openings:

There are several open potential PhD studentships in ocean/climate dynamics & biochemistry that will be supervised or co-supervised by Dr Mashayek. The deadline for applications is January 4th, 2024. Please look for projects CE518, CE519, CE520, CE538, CE523 and CE515 here: https://nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/programme/project-list

Note: only exceptionally strong students will have a realistic chance of getting one of these studentships.

 
 

Current Group Members:

 
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Dr Pauline Tedesco
Dr Pauline Tedesco

Postdoc, GFD, Ocean Turbulence

Dr Nick Reynard
Dr Nick Reynard

Postdoc, climate modeling, marine-based carbon dioxide removal

Dr Amir Atoufi
Dr Amir Atoufi

Postdoc (joint with DAMTP-John Taylor), GFD, boundary layer turbulence

Owen Allemang
Owen Allemang

PhD (primary adviser: Emma Boland @ BAS), Arctic and climate change

Lisanne Blok
Lisanne Blok

PhD, Extreme Sea Level, Arctic turbulence, machine learning

Daniel Heathcote
Daniel Heathcote

PhD, Sea level, Ocean energetics, climate extremes

Joshua Lanham
Joshua Lanham

PhD, Polar climate stability

Tianshu Liu
Tianshu Liu

PhD (co-advised by Lois Baker), Arctic and climate change

Haiming Luo
Haiming Luo

PhD (co-advising with Ramit Debnath), climate and social tipping points

Sophie Meyjes
Sophie Meyjes

PhD, Climate change and marine ecosystems

Kate Oglethorpe
Kate Oglethorpe

PhD (co-advised by Colm Caulfield), Arctic Ocean and climate change

Nicolaos Petropoulos
Nicolaos Petropoulos

PhD (primary adviser: Colm Caulfield), Ocean turbulence.

Incoming Members

 
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Dr Rafael Reiss
Dr Rafael Reiss

PDRA (from Jan 2024), Ocean circulation, Arctic and climate change

Former Members

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Dr Lois Baker
Dr Lois Baker

PhD (2019-2022), currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, https://loisbaker.github.io/

Dr Elizabeth Ellison
Dr Elizabeth Ellison

Former PhD student. Now a postdoc at Australian National University

https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/ellison-e

  • Juncheng Zhang: MSc (2022). Project: Ocean mixed layer turbulence

  • Shenghan Fu: MSc (2022). Project: Application of machine learning to ocean turbulence parameterisation

  • Tianshu Liu: MSc (2021). Project: The surface manifestation of bottom-generated oceanic lee waves

  • Germano Piccirilli: MSc (2021). Project: Role of coastal ecosystems in protection against sea-level rise

  • Fangming Zhai: MSc (2021). Project: Application of machine learning to small-scale ocean turbulence

  • Mengqi Wang: MSc (2020). Project: Nonlinear lee wave generation over rough topography

  • Alfred Hewetson: MSc (2020). Project: Wave attenuation through Mangrove forests

  • Mathew Tse: MSc (2019). Project: Sea level rise and coastal protection

  • Bowen Che: MSc (2019). Project: Topographic form stress in the Ocean