Dr David Brayshaw is the Associate Professor in Climate Science and Energy Meteorology in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading and a Principal Investigator with the UK’s National Centre for Atmospheric Science. His research concerns large-scale atmospheric dynamics and its human and environmental impacts. He leads the University’s energy meteorology research group (https://research.reading.ac.uk/met-energy/) and is involved in wide range of academic and commercial projects on weather and climate risk in the energy sector, covering timescales from days to decades ahead.