Ted Shepherd
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Ted Shepherd | |
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.jpg) Shepherd in 2016 | |
| Born | 6 August 1958[1] |
| Awards | Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| Thesis | Rossby waves and two-dimensional turbulence in the presence of a large-scale zonal jet (1984) |
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| Other academic advisors | Michael E. McIntyre[4] |
| Website | met |
Theodore Gordon Shepherd FRS[5] (born 6 August 1958)[1] is the Grantham Professor of Climate Science at the University of Reading.[1][6][2][7][8]
Shepherd was educated at the University of Toronto where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1979.[1] He completed his postgraduate education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he was awarded a PhD in 1982[9] for research supervised by Jule Gregory Charney and Peter B. Rhines on turbulence in Rossby waves.[3][10]
Following his PhD, Shepherd was appointed a postdoctoral research fellow at St Catharine's College, Cambridge supervised by Michael E. McIntyre in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge.[1][11] After 24 years working at the University of Toronto in Canada he moved back to the United Kingdom in 2012,[12] funded by a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.[1]
