Victoria SINCLAIR
Curriculum vitae1. Full name and date Surname: SINCLAIR Given Names: Victoria Anne
Gender: female
Date of writing: 8 September 2014
2. Date and place of birth, nationality, current residence Date of birth: 10.10.1983
Place of birth: Perth, Scotland, UK Citizenship: British
Current Residence: Helsinki, Finland
Address: Oikokatu 6-8 B7, Helsinki, Finland 00170 Phone number: +358 417219512
email address: Victoria.Sinclair@helsinki.fi 3. Education and degrees awarded
Ph.D. 03.07.2009, University of Reading, UK. (http://www.reading.ac.uk/) (Meteorology) thesis title: Boundary-Layer Ventilation by Baroclinic Life Cycles
B.Sc. 08.07.2005, University of Reading, UK
(Meteorology) Degree name: Meteorology with a Year in Oklahoma (1st Hons) Grade point average (GPA) from Oklahoma: 4.0
4. Other education and training, qualifications and skills
Summer schools and workshops attended
October 2012: Bridging the Gap workshop, Wageningen University, The Netherlands October 2011: NCAR-NCAS WRF Users Tutorial, Edinburgh, Scotland
June 2008: Boundary layer summer school, Les Houches, France September 2006: NERC Environment Young Entrepreneur Scheme (YES)
5. Linguistic skills
English: Mother tongue
Finnish: Common European Framework (CEF) skill level A2/ B1
University of Helsinki, Language Centre, Finnish level 3 certificate. French: Common European Framework (CEF) skill level A2/ B1
6. Current position
01.2013 – present University Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland.
My current position involves conducting my own independent research, supervising students, teach-ing undergraduate courses, writteach-ing proposals and managteach-ing the day-to-day runnteach-ing of our research group, of which I am leader. Currently I am at stage 3 (established or independent researcher) of the career phase.
7. Previous work experience
04.2009 – 12.2012 Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland. 07.2004 – 03.2007 Assistant forecaster (part time), RaceMet Radar Systems
07.2003 – 10.2003 Assistant research scientist, Satellite Applications, UK Met Office 8. Research funding, leadership, and supervision
Research Funding
To date, I have not received any major funding for my research career. However, in April 2014 I played a major role in coordinating and writing a Marie Sklodowska-Curie âĂŞ Innovative Training Network proposal (coordinated by Prof. Heikki JÃďrvinen). If funded, this proposal will fund 12 PhD students. The proposal involves 4 universities, 5 private companies, and two weather services spread across five European Countries. Minor awards which I have received are listed below:
2012 European Meteorological Society Young Scientist Travel Award (e300 + registration)
2011 University of Helsinki Chancellor’s Travel Grant 2011 (e1000) 2008 Adrian Gill Travel Award to attend EGU (e400 + registration) 2001 - 2004 UK Met Office Undergraduate Scholarship (£4500)
Academic Leadership
2014 - present Group Leader of Dynamical Meteorology Research Group, Division of Atmospheric Sciences. University of Helsinki.
Responsible for organising group meetings, ensuring efficient communica-tion between group members and a coherent research agenda.
2013 - present Member of the OpenIFS workshops organising committee 2012 - present Member of the AMS Boundary Layer and turbulence conference
organising committee
Student supervision
Oleg Stepanyuk PhD student, 2014 – 2016. (jointly supervised with Jouni Räisänen) Dynamics of Atmospheric Vertical Motion and precipitation in a changing climate
Meri Virman Summer student 2014 (jointly supervised with Marja Bister) Deep convection and the MJO
Minttu Tuononen Masters student, 2013 - 2014 (main supervisor)
A Climatology of low level jets in the northern hemisphere polar regions Nina Karusto Bachelors student 2014 (main supervisor)
Narrow cold fronts in Finland
Minttu Tuononen Summer student 2013 (main supervisor) Jet streams in reanalysis datasets
Sebastain Käki Summer student 2013 (jointly supervised with Jouni Räisänen). Solving the general form of the omega equation
Katja Nevalainen Masters student 2010 – 2012 (main supervisor).
(M.Sc) A case study of a snowstorm with multiple snowbands in southern Finland on 23rd November 2008
Mirja L. Kemppi Masters student 2009 – 2010 (main supervisor)
(M.Sc.) A mesoscale analysis of three warm front passages over southern Finland based on the Helsinki Testbed observations
9. Merits in teaching and pedagogical competence
Pedagogical Competence - courses taken
Spring 2014 Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (UP1) University of Helsinki, Grade 5
been solely responsibly for designing and delivering two complete lectures courses.
2014 Guest lecturer, Introduction to Modern Atmospheric Sciences, University of Helsinki
2013, 2014: Lecturer, Synoptic Meteorology 1 and 2, University of Helsinki
2012: Assistant lecturer, Atmospheric Thermodynamics, University of Helsinki 2011: Assistant lecturer, Dynamics IV, University of Helsinki
2009: Assistant lecturer, Boundary layer dynamics II, University of Helsinki 2006, 2007, 2008: Demonstrator for multiple courses, University of Reading
2006, 2007 Teaching Assistant on the joint NCAS / University of Leeds / University of Reading Atmospheric Measurement field course, Isle of Arran, Scotland
Supervision of theses
I have supervised 3 masters theses and 1 bachelors thesis to completion. 10. Awards, prizes and honours
2011 Student award for best presentation at the AMS 18th Symposium on boundary layers and turbulence, Stockholm 11. Other academic merits
Membership of scholarly societies
2014 - 2019 Finnish Centre of Excellence in Atmospheric Science — From Molecular and Biological Processes to the Global Climate (ATM)
2005 – present Associate fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society 2007 – present Member of the American Meteorological Society
Editorial and peer review service
2009 – 2011 Associate Editor for Monthly Weather Review
2006 – 2008 Member, and then chair, of the Royal Meteorology Society student confer-ence organizing committee.
Ongoing Reviewer of manuscripts for Monthly Weather Review, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geo-physical Research Letters and Atmospheric Science Letters. In total I have reviewed ∼ 25 manuscripts.
Other responsibilities
International invited talks
May 2014 Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK September 2011 July 2011 Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of
Al-bany, New York, USA
June 2010 Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK
June 2010 Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Manchester, UK November 2009 School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Monash, Australia
March 2008 Scottish Centre of Royal Meteorological Society, Edinburgh, UK 12. Scientific and societal impact of research
Total number of publications: 10
Total number of first author publications: 6 H-index: 4
