Meet the Team

Welcome to the CUWALID team page! Below, you’ll find the amazing people behind the CUWALID model and Down2Earth project.

Andrés Quichimbo

Andrés Quichimbo

Postdoctoral Researcher CU

Lead developer of the CUWALID system and main creator of the DRYP Model

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Manuel Rios Gaona

Manuel Rios Gaona

Postdoctoral Researcher CU

Part of the model developer team for CUWALID and main creator of the Storm Model

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Dagmawi Asfaw

Dagmawi Asfaw

Postdoctoral Researcher CU

Part of the model developer team for CUWALID and main creator of the StoPET Model

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Leo Coote

Leo Coote

Application Assistant

Joining as a summer intern in 2024 as a CS student, worked to combine the models into a unified package to release on PyPi

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Michael Singer

Michael Singer

DOWN2EARTH Principal Investigator and CU Lead

Lead Principal Investigator on DOWN2EARTH, Deputy Director of the Water Research Institute and a Professor at Cardiff University

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Mark Cuthbert

Mark Cuthbert

DOWN2EARTH Principal Investigator and CU Lead

Principal Investigator on DOWN2EARTH, and Professor at Cardiff University

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Katerina Michaelides

Katerina Michaelides

DOWN2EARTH Principal Investigator and UoB Lead

Lead Principal Investigator on DOWN2EARTH, and a Professor at University of Bristol

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David MacLeod

David MacLeod

Senior Research Associate

Senior Research Associate working on the Down2Earth Project with expertise in climate science and predictability.

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Kieren Pitts

Kieren Pitts

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Holds a PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Bristol.