Professor Andy Challinor
- Position: Professor
- Areas of expertise: climate impacts; climate change; food security; food production
- Email: A.J.Challinor@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 3194
- Location: 10.20 Priestley Building
- Website: Climate Impact Group | Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID | White Rose
Profile
I am a Professor of Climate Impacts at the University of Leeds. I began my research career with a PhD at the University of Leeds on boundary layer flow through forests. I then spent some years at Reading, conducting postdoctoral research on the impacts of climate variability and change on food crops. I returned to Leeds in 2007 to take up a Lectureship and initiate and lead the The Climate Impacts group.I was Lead Author on the ‘Food Production Systems and Food Security’ chapter of the Fifth Assessment report of the IPCC and Lead Author for the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 and 2022.
Responsibilities
- Professor of Climate Impacts
Research interests
My work focuses principally on using climate modelling and process studies to understand food production and food security; treatments of uncertainty and managing risk; climate-resilient pathways and adaptation; and wider food system interactions. I aim to contribute significantly to the knowledge and policy base for sustainably strengthening the food security and health, especially amongst those societies that are vulnerable to climate variability and change. I do this by working with experts in a range of disciplines, from epidemiologists and ecologists to social scientists and economists.
Crop-climate modelling is a core part of my research, from the regional-scale crop model, GLAM, developed in 2003, to more recent updates and new models that include machine learning, remote sensing and data-driven approaches.
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>Primary investigator (PI)
Co-investigator (Co-I)
- Building Systemic Resilience against Climate Variability and Extremes (ClimBeR)
- Increasing UK Dietary Fibre - The Case for the Great White British Loaf
Qualifications
- PhD, Meteorology & Forest Micro-Climate, University of Leeds
- BSc, Physics (European), University of Leeds
Research groups and institutes
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science
- Land-Atmosphere-Biosphere