About me
Hello! I am George Datseris (he/him), Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Exeter and lead developer for the JuliaDynamics GitHub organization.
I am a creative, self-driven independent researcher, with a unique skill set that combines the mathematics of nonlinear dynamics and the physics of complex systems with numerical modelling, spatio/temporal data analysis, and climate science.
Career summary: During my PhD I worked on classical and quantum electron transport in graphene nanodevices, but also nonlinear dynamics, nonlinear timeseries analysis, and music fluctuations and their human perception. After my PhD, I decided to fundamentally change my primary focus into climate science. To this end I joined the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology as a Postdoc. This substantial career change was challenging, but I was able to bring valuable new perspectives from nonlinear dynamics and complex systems into climate science, primarily the study of large-scale cloudiness and its interaction with the energy balance of the Earth system. At the end of my postdoc, I wanted to carry on working in clouds & climate but also connect more with my roots in nonlinear dynamics and physics. I won two fellowships to support this: the Royal Society International Newton Fellowship and the Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. They brought me to the University of Exeter, where I combined my passion for developing conceptual understanding of the physical world with understanding the interplay between clouds and climate. The majority of my research is split between nonlinear dynamics and cloud-climate interactions. On one front, I am developing a completely new perspective for understanding the response of dynamical systems to finite perturbations and to changes in their parameters. On the other front, I combine conceptual climate models, satellite and in-situ data, and large eddy simulations, with the goal of understanding how clouds respond to change or generate themselves change in the climate system. My current research focus is the treating clouds as systems capable of undergoing critical transitions, and what this means for the climate system and other so-called tipping elements.