We are an interdisciplinary team of physical and social scientists. We study extreme and worst-case scenario climate change and weather events, and their potential impacts on society.
Dr Tom Matthews
Physical Science
Tom is a Senior Lecturer at King’s College London and a National Geographic Explorer.
His research interests are in the societal impacts from climate change, with a focus on severe weather events. This drives him to understand the planet’s most extreme climates. From deadly tropical heat waves and cyclones to severe, cold-weather mountain windstorms, his research aims to map the limits of Earth’s climate envelope and chart its course as it is shifted by human-caused climate change. His research has taken him from the Arctic to the Amazon, and has involved developing new weather monitoring networks at extreme altitudes, reaching all the way to the summit of Mt. Everest.
tom.matthews@kcl.ac.uk
Bluesky: @climatom.bsky.social
Tom’s National Geographic profile
Tom’s KCL Profile
Tom’s publications
Dr Tom Wood
Physical Science
Tom’s research focuses on detecting and projecting ‘unseen’ climate extremes – record-breaking extreme climate events that are unprecedented in the historical record but present potentially catastrophic risks to society.
He works with an interdisciplinary team of physical climate scientists and social scientists to explore extreme and worst-case scenario climate change under deep uncertainty, exploring the boundaries of plausibility and the potential impacts of these plausible climate extremes on society.
tom.wood@kcl.ac.uk
Bluesky: @TomWood.Science
Personal Website: tomwood.science
Tom’s KCL Profile
Dr Hebe Nicholson
Social Science
Hebe’s research focuses on the societal impacts of climate extremes.
She is a qualitative interdisciplinary researcher whose previous research explored climate migration and its governance as well as the societal impacts of climate change more broadly. In this project she studies the societal impacts of current extreme heat and considers the impacts of possible future unprecedented extreme heat events.
hebe.nicholson@kcl.ac.uk
Hebe’s LinkedIn
Hebe’s KCL Profile
Jenix Justine MSc
Physical / Social Science
Jenix is a doctoral student whose research focuses on extreme heat waves, signatures of high-impact heat events, and physiological thresholds of extreme heat.
She previously worked at a climate action NGO, working on grassroots-level intervention projects focussed on changing life and livelihoods of fisherfolks in the context of changing climate and coordinating campaigns and restoration drives across Kerala, India.
jenix.justine@kcl.ac.uk
Jenix’s KCL Profile