dr Clair Barnes

Clair Barnes is a statistician with a PhD in Statistical Science from University College London, where she developed methodologies for quantifying uncertainties associated with multi-model ensemble forecasts of weather and climate.

Since 2022 she has worked as a researcher with the World Weather Attribution initiative (WWA), based at Imperial College London. Much of her work there involves understanding how changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events are linked to climate change. Her research focuses on ways to improve probabilistic attribution methodologies and combine them with other approaches, to obtain more robust results and understand more about the factors driving changes in extreme weather events.