Amina connects physical climate evidence across instruments, models, and observation records. She is most useful when a result looks simple but its assumptions, scale, or uncertainty need careful explanation.
As science director, Amina sets standards for claims rather than chasing a single headline result. She asks whether an observation represents a place, a season, or a wider system, and whether a model comparison uses the same baseline. Her brief is to make technical review rigorous without turning uncertainty into an excuse for inaction.
Education
She completed a DPhil in atmospheric physics at the University of Oxford after an MSc in atmospheric and climate science at ETH Zurich. Her training joined radiative processes, fluid dynamics, statistical inference, and instrument design, giving her a practical view of how measurements and models constrain one another.
Experience
Amina previously built attribution models and rugged field instruments. That work taught her to examine the full chain from sensor placement and calibration through quality control, model assumptions, and public interpretation. She values replication, readable code, and field notes that record inconvenient conditions instead of smoothing them away after the fact.
Current focus
Her current focus is evidence that remains understandable when it moves between disciplines. She works on review practices for compound events, comparable baselines, and uncertainty language. She also supports teams in separating what a dataset directly shows from the mechanism a model suggests and the decision a reader may choose to make.
Beyond work
Every notebook Amina owns contains cloud sketches beside equations and meeting notes. She bakes cardamom buns slowly, preferring a reliable fermentation to a shortcut. Colleagues know that a hand-drawn cloud in the margin usually means she has found a question worth returning to.