Biography
Ben started his PhD with the University of Melbourne in March, 2017. His project focusses on the organisation mechanisms of deep tropical convection. It will involve the analysis of observational data of tropical thunderstorms and the comparison of this data to numerical model output, in an effort to build on our current understanding of how tropical convection becomes organised, and which aspects of these processes modern weather models fail to capture.
Prior to his PhD he completed a Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts with Honours in applied mathematics at Monash. This was followed by a Graduate Diploma of Meteorology at the Bureau of Meteorology, which led to a posting as a weather forecaster in Darwin (which he still currently does part time).
