Meet the Team

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

E. Andrés Quichimbo M.

Postdoctoral Researcher Cardiff University and University of California, Santa Barbara

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

ORCID GitHub Scholar

Manuel Rios Gaona

Postdoctoral Researcher CU

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

ORCID GitHub Scholar

Dagmawi Asfaw

Postdoctoral Researcher CU

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

ORCID Scholar

Kieren Pitts

WujihaCast development team

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

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

GitHub Website

Michael Singer

DOWN2EARTH Lead Principal Investigator

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

ORCID GitHub Scholar Website

Mark Cuthbert

DOWN2EARTH Principal Investigator

Principal Investigator on DOWN2EARTH, and Professor at Cardiff University

ORCID Scholar Website

Katerina Michaelides

DOWN2EARTH Principal Investigator and UoB Lead

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

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David MacLeod

Senior Research Associate

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

ORCID Scholar

George Blake

PhD Student

PhD student working on the Down2Earth Project with expertise in hydrology and water resources.

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