Dr Edward Steele

IT Fellow for Data Science, MET Office

Edward is the Met Office IT Fellow for Data Science, championing the development and delivery of the organisation's artificial intelligence and machine learning capability. Consistent with his expertise in environmental intelligence, and many years of leading high-impact applied scientific contributions across academia, industry and government, is his enjoyment of working with both internal and external partners to enable them to see around corners and ensure they capitalize on new and emerging technological improvements; unlocking new opportunities for radically enhanced weather and climate related decision-making.

Career background

Edward joined the Met Office in December 2015 as a scientist in the Post-Processing Applications team. From July 2019, while still continuing to lead the scientific application of forecasts within the commercial marine sector, he managed a team within the Aviation area on an interim basis for nine months, prior to founding (and growing) the Marine Applications team; with his personal impact credited with helping substantially de-risk multi-million-pound operations, ensuring the safety of life at sea, and evolving sector-wide standards (and aspirations) for the use of these data.

His background includes a PhD in Marine Physics and a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Physical Oceanography, both at the University of Plymouth, as well as significant contributions to the wider field of operational oceanography spanning multiple international learned society, journal editorial, joint industry project and cross-government Agency advisory roles.

Dr Marcus Juniper

MET Office

Marcus joined the Met Office’s Marine Applications team in March 2024. Prior to joining Marcus obtained a DPhil in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford, focusing on the aero/hydro-dynamics of wind/tidal turbine arrays. During his DPhil he held a data science role at a climate-tech start-up developing machine learning tools to aid in the analysis of nature-based solutions. Before starting his DPhil Marcus attained a MMath in Mathematics from the University of Exeter in which his final year research project explored resonance in stratified ocean layers.

Madeleine Waller

PhD researcher, King's College London

Madeleine Waller is a PhD researcher at King's College London in the UKRI Safe and Trusted AI Centre for Doctoral Training. She is also currently and Enrichment Student at The Alan Turing Institute. Her research focuses on the fairness of automated decision-making systems. Before her PhD studies, Madeleine received a First Class (Honours) Computer Science BSc at King's College London. Madeleine's main interest is in AI policy, specifically around preventing the use of discriminatory AI systems.

Niall Robinson

Earth 2, NVIDIA

Niall works on NVIDIA Earth 2. This programme creates open tools which help developers leverage NVIDIA’s accelerated compute to create weather and climate applications. Before working at NVIDIA Niall spent over a decade at the UK Met Office where he was Head of Innovation, and researched informatics. He is a climate modeller by trade.