Rate My Professor Amanda Maycock

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.