Rate My Professor Amanda Maycock

Professor Amanda Maycock is Professor in Climate Dynamics and Joint Chair of the Met Office Academic Partnership in the School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability at the University of Leeds. She completed her MPhys in Physics with Astrophysics at the University of Manchester in 2006, followed by an MSc in Atmosphere, Oceans and Climate in 2008 and a PhD in the same field in 2012, both from the University of Reading. After her PhD, she held an AXA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and a Junior Research Fellowship at St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge from 2013 to 2015. She also received a CIRES Senior Scientist Visiting Fellowship at NOAA in Boulder in 2016. Upon joining the University of Leeds in 2015 as University Academic Fellow and NERC Independent Research Fellow until 2020, she advanced to her current professorial positions. From 2020 to 2024, she directed the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science.

Maycock's research centers on large-scale climate dynamics and processes influencing climate variability and change, including climate modelling, midlatitude dynamics, tropical widening, stratosphere-troposphere interactions, chemistry-climate interactions, the ozone layer, radiative transfer, atmospheric circulation, and climate projections. She served as Lead Author for Working Group I of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Lead Author for the WMO/UNEP 2018 and 2026 Ozone Assessment Reports, and Review Editor for the 2022 edition. Additional contributions include authoring the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 4 and serving on the Advisory Board for the UNEP 2026 Temperature Overshoot Report. She has held leadership roles such as Co-Chair of the WCRP/SPARC Activity on Atmospheric Temperature Change and their Drivers from 2017 to 2022, Chair of the Royal Meteorological Society Meetings and Events Committee from 2017 to 2021, and Member of the CLIVAR Climate Dynamics Panel from 2024 to 2025. Currently, she is Joint Chair of the WCRP APARC core project until 2025 and will join the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme from 2026. Maycock is Co-Editor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics since 2016 and Editor of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B since 2023. Her accolades include the 2018 Philip Leverhulme Prize from the Leverhulme Trust, the 2019 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists from the European Geosciences Union, the 2022 STAC Outstanding Early Career Award from the American Meteorological Society, and the 2023 water@leeds Water Woman Award for Research Excellence.