Rate My Professor Hayley Fowler

Her research centres on advancing physical understanding of precipitation extremes, particularly intense rainfall changes, and their implications for hydrological systems, flooding, and water resources under climate change. Fowler has pioneered probabilistic downscaling methods and contributed to tools like the UKCP09 Weather Generator. She leads a research group with six postdocs and ten PhD students and has authored over 160 peer-reviewed publications. Notable works include "Towards new design rainfall profiles for the United Kingdom" (Journal of Flood Risk Management, 2024), "The creation and climatology of a large independent rainfall event database for Great Britain" (International Journal of Climatology, 2023), and "Large-scale dynamics moderate impact-relevant changes to organised convective storms" (Communications Earth & Environment, 2023). Her accolades include the Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship (2025), American Geophysical Union Fellowship (2018), Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2014-2019), European Academy of Sciences Fellowship (2021), Philip Leverhulme Prize (2011), and NERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006-2010). Fowler is an Associate Editor for Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica, has guest-edited special issues for leading journals, and delivered the British Science Association Joseph Lister Award Lecture (2012-2013).