Senior Scientist, Met Office

Biography

Paula Gonzalez is a Senior Scientist at the Met Office, where she joined the Industry Consultancy team in June 2022. Prior to this Paula spent 5 years as a Research Scientist at the University of Reading. Most of this time she spent as a member of the Energy Meteorology group, doing research on the use of climate model output, subseasonal to seasonal predictions, and future projections for energy sector applications. Before joining the University of Reading, Paula spent over 6 years at Columbia University, USA. She joined the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) first as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist and then as an Associate Research Scientist, to work on subseasonal to decadal prediction, and climate variability and climate change for sectors such as agriculture, water, and finance. Paula obtained MSc and PhD degrees in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.