Dr Alex Rap

Profile

I am an Associate Professor in Atmospheric Science and Climate Modelling in the School of Earth and Environment and a member of the Physical Climate Change and the Biosphere Proceses and Climate research groups within the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science.

I have a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania and a PhD in Environmental Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Leeds with a thesis on Inverse contaminant fluid flow problems using boundary element methods.

Responsibilities

• Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research Studies

Research interests

My research focuses on better understanding how natural and anthropogenic climate forcers affect the Earth System via radiation changes. Main topics include: 

• Modelling aviation impacts on climate
• Contrail parameterisations for climate models
• Radiative forcing of aerosol particles and greenhouse gases
• Impact of diffuse radiation on vegetation
• Land surface modelling

• TOZCA – Towards Zero Carbon Aviation

Qualifications

• PhD, Environmental Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds
• BSc, Mathematics, University of Cluj-Napoca
• Teaching Module Qualification, University of Cluj-Napoca

Professional memberships

• European Geosciences Union
• American Geophysical Union

Student education

I teach on the Environmental Science, Geophysics, and Geography with Environmental Mathematics BSc programmes.

I am also supervising MRes, and BSc dissertations and act as personal tutor for BSc Environmental Science students.

Research groups and institutes

• Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science
• Climate Science and Impacts
• Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols

Current postgraduate researchers

• Weiyu Zhang
• Sarah McClory
• Kexin Qiu