Inna Polichtchouk - Curriculum Vitae Department of Meteorology University of Reading Reading, RG6 6BX (+44) 7722 150588 I.Polichtchouk@reading.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, UK Visiting Scientist, the Stratospheric Task Force Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK Post Doctoral Research Associate Principal Investigator: Ted Shepherd Nov 2016 Present Aug 2014 Present EDUCATION Queen Mary, University of London, UK Oct 2010 Dec 2014 PhD in astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy. Thesis: Baroclinic Jets on Other Jupiters and Earths Advisor: James Y-K Cho Queen Mary, University of London, UK Sep 2006 Jun 2010 MSci in mathematics with statistics, School of Mathematical Sciences 1 st class. Thesis: Baroclinic Instability on Hot Extrasolar Giant Planets Advisor: James Y-K Cho PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Meteorological Office, Exeter, UK Jun 2009 Aug 2009 Internship in Data Assimilation Research Team. Role: Investigated generation of global background error covariance matrices via ensemble-driven methods for implementation in four dimensional variational data assimilation. Meteorological Office, Exeter, UK Jun 2008 Aug 2008 Internship in Health Team. Role: Analyzed the impact of Finnish weather on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients using statistical methods. 1
TEACHING AND SUPERVISION University of Reading, UK Oct 2017 Jan 2018 Joint principal investigator of Dr Nick Byrne, who works on the stratosphere-troposphere coupling in the IFS. Queen Mary, University of London, UK Oct 2010 Jun 2014 Guest lecturer for the Extrasolar Planets and Astrophysical Disks module. Teaching assistant for the following modules: Complex Variables, Calculus I & II, Introduction to Mathematical Computing, Differential Equations, Our Universe and Mathematical Techniques III. AWARDS AND GRANTS 1. Royal Astronomical Society Grant to attend wave-mean flow interaction programme at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, USA, May, 2014. 2. UK Space Agency/STFC studentship to attend the European Planetary Science Congress, London, UK, October, 2013. 3. CR Barber Trust Fund to attend AGU Chapman Conference, Annapolis, USA, June, 2013. 4. Royal Meteorological Society Legacies Fund to attend AGU Chapman Conference, Annapolis, USA, June, 2013. 5. Queen Mary, University of London Postgraduate Research Fund bursary to attend Fluid Dynamics of Sustainability and the Environment Summer School, Cambridge, UK, September, 2012. 6. University of Cambridge Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics bursary to attend Fluid Dynamics of Sustainability and the Environment Summer School, Cambridge, UK, September, 2012. 7. Institute of Physics travel bursary to attend the European Planetary Science Congress, Nantes, France, October, 2011. 8. The Emil Aaltonen Foundation Young Researcher Grant to fund PhD, awarded for 2010-2013 but declined to take up STFC funded PhD studentship. 9. Westfield Trust Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Mathematics awarded for three consecutive years, 2008, 2009 & 2010. INVITED TALKS DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany Jan 2018 Sensitivity of the Brewer-Dobson circulation and polar vortex variability to parametrized nonorographic gravity-wave drag in a high-resolution atmospheric model Institute of Atmospheric Physics Seminar. 2
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland Dec 2017 Sensitivity of the Brewer-Dobson circulation and polar vortex variability to parametrized nonorographic gravity-wave drag in a high-resolution atmospheric model Climate Dynamics Seminar. MPI for Physics and Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany Jul 2017 Jets and their response to forcings in the hierarchy of global atmospheric models Climate Fluctuations and Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. University of Reading, Reading, UK Nov 2016 Sensitivity of zonal-mean circulation to air-sea roughness What a drag: the effect of surface processes on atmospheric circulation RMetS meeting. ECMWF, Reading, UK Sep 2016 Sensitivity of zonal-mean circulation to air-sea roughness Drag processes and their links to large-scale circulation. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Nov 2014 Geophysical and Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics seminar. University of Exeter, Exeter, UK Mar 2014 Simulations of Exoplanet Atmospheres Astrophysics seminar. City University, London, UK Mar 2013 Mathematics seminar. OTHER TALKS ECMWF, Reading, UK Jan 2017 How good (or bad) is the circulation of the stratosphere and mesosphere in the IFS? Informal Seminar. Helsinki, Finland Jun 2016 Can the Held-Suarez framework be used to understand the zonal mean atmospheric circulation response to external perturbations? SPARC DynVar Workshop. Prague, the Czech Republic Jun 2015 IUGG. Eynsham Hall, UK Apr 2015 Sensitivity of tropical and extratropical circulation to air-sea roughness in aquaplanet simulations Momentum Budget and its Role in Weather and Climate Workshop. 3
Vienna, Austria Apr 2015 European Geosciences Union General Assembly. University of Reading, Reading, UK Feb 2015 Challenges in Simulating Atmospheres of Other Jupiters and Earths Department of Meteorology Lunchtime Seminar UCL, London, UK Jan 2015 The Dynamics of Rotating Fluids Meeting. UCL, London, UK Oct 2013 Simulations of Extrasolar Planet Atmospheres under Large-Scale Forcing European Planetary Science Congress. GFDL, Princeton, USA Jun 2013 Hot Jupiter and Terrestrial Atmospheric Jets Atmospheric and Oceanic Dynamics seminar. Natural History Museum, London, UK Jan 2013 10th Early Career Planetary Scientists Meeting. UCL, London, UK Jan 2013 The Dynamics of Rotating Fluids Meeting (talk). Nantes, France Oct 2011 Baroclinic Instability on Hot Extrasolar Planets European Planetary Science Congress/ Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting. PUBLICATIONS I. Polichtchouk, T. G. Shepherd, R. J. Hogan & P. Bechtold, 2018 Sensitivity of the Brewer-Dobson circulation and polar vortex variability to parametrized nonorographic gravity-wave drag in a high-resolution atmospheric model, JAS, in press I. Polichtchouk & T. G. Shepherd, 2016 Zonal-mean circulation response to reduced air-sea momentum roughness, QJRMS, 142, 2611 2622 I. Polichtchouk & J. Y-K. Cho, 2016 Superrotation in Held & Suarez-like flows with weak surface temperature gradient, QJRMS, 142, 1528 1540 J. Y-K. Cho & I. Polichtchouk, 2015, Sensitivity and Variability Redux in Hot-Jupiter Flow Simulations, MNRAS, 454, 3423-3431 I. Polichtchouk, J. Y-K. Cho, C. Watkins, H. Th. Thrastarson, O. M. Umurhan & M. de la Torre Juarez, 2014,, Icarus, 229, 355 377 I. Polichtchouk & J. Y-K. Cho, 2012, Baroclinic Instability on Hot Extrasolar Planets, MNRAS, 424, 1307 1326 4
J.-P. Beaulieu, G. Tinetti, D. M. Kipping, I. Ribas, R. J. Barber, J. Y-K. Cho, I. Polichtchouk, J. Tennyson, S. N. Yurchenko, C. A. Griffith, V. Batista, I. Waldman, S. Miller, S. Carey, O. Mousis, S. J. Fossey & A. Aylward, 2011, Methane in the Atmosphere of the Transiting Hot Neptune GJ436b?, ApJ, 731, 16 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS Reviewer for Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Climate Dynamics, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Astrophysical Journal, and Planetary and Space Science Organizer of the Momentum Budget and its Role in Weather Apr 2015 and Climate Workshop, Eynsham Hall and the University of Reading, UK Affiliate member at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics May 2014 programme Wave-Flow Interaction in Geophysics, Climate, Astrophysics, and Plasmas, Santa Barbara, USA Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society 2012 Present Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society 2011 2015 Member of the Institute of Physics 2011 2014 Leader and organizer of Planetary Atmospheres and Dynamics 2010 2013 weekly discussion group, University of London Representative of Project JUNO 2011 2014 (the Institute of Physics scheme aimed at increasing participation of women in physics) Organizer and student mentor for Peer Assisted Study 2007 2010 Support for School of Mathematical Sciences COMPUTER SKILLS Programming languages and software: CDO, Fortran, NCAR Command Language, IDL, MATLAB, Mathematica, Maple, shell scripting, L A TEX, openmpi and MPI. Operating systems: Linux/Unix, Macintosh, Windows. LANGUAGE SKILLS Finnish (native speaker), Russian (native speaker), fluent English, basic Swedish. 5