Julia Slingo was Chief Scientist at the Met Office from 2009 until 2016.
23 Facts About Julia Slingo
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Julia Slingo is a visiting professor in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, where she held, prior to appointment to the Met Office, the positions of Director of Climate Research in the Natural Environment Research Council National Centre for Atmospheric Science and founding Director of the Walker Institute for Climate System Research.
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Julia Slingo was educated at the King's High School for Girls, an all-girls private school in Warwick.
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Julia Slingo studied physics at the University of Bristol and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1973.
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Julia Slingo's research focussed on clouds and their interactions with the rest of the atmosphere, and she pioneered new ways to represent clouds in weather forecast and climate models.
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In 1985 she left the Met Office and, after a year at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Reading, UK, Dame Julia Slingo moved in 1986 to the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the USA.
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In 1990, Julia Slingo returned to the UK, to join the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, where she founded a group researching into tropical climate.
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Julia Slingo became an established researcher in tropical climate variability and cumulus convection, its influence on the global climate, and its role in seasonal and decadal climate prediction, and led the development of a new generation of high resolution climate models.
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Julia Slingo developed a particular interest in the monsoons of India and China, working closely with scientists in both countries.
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Julia Slingo represents the Office on science and technology across government.
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In March 2012, Julia Slingo said that a reduction in Arctic sea ice caused by climate change was possibly linked to colder and drier winter weather in the UK.
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Julia Slingo's research has been funded by the Natural Environment Research Council.
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Julia Slingo was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2008 for services to environmental and climate science.
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Julia Slingo was promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to weather and climate science.
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Julia Slingo was awarded the Buchan Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society in 1998.
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Julia Slingo was awarded honorary degrees of doctor of science by the University of Bristol in 2010, and the University of Reading in 2011.
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In 2014, Julia Slingo was named one of the 100 leading UK practising scientists by the Science Council.
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Julia Slingo was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015.
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Julia Slingo was elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2016 "For contributions to modelling of the Earth's climate system and for leadership in the weather and climate community".
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Julia Slingo was the first female Professor of Meteorology in the UK.
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Julia Slingo was interviewed on The Life Scientific by Jim Al-Khalili in 2014.
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Julia Slingo was awarded the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal by the American Meteorological Society in 2020.
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Julia Slingo was an environmental scientist who died in 2008.