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Professor Juliet Biggs awarded a ten-year Faraday Discovery Fellowship

COMET Co-Director Professor Juliet Biggs (University of Bristol) was recently awarded a ten-year Faraday Discovery Fellowship from the Royal Society. The Royal Society states that the fellowship awards exceptional mid-career academics “using cutting-edge techniques to explore questions at the frontiers of human knowledge”, and recognise the achievements of the country’s leading researchers.

Juliet’s work is titled “MAGMA 4D – Improved resilience to volcanic hazards through satellite-based monitoring and forecasting”, and will focus on building a global satellite volcano observatory by combining next-generation satellite data, artificial intelligence, and physics-based models to improve the way volcanoes are monitored and forecast. With a greater understanding of how the volcanoes work, the research hopes to deliver earlier warnings and provide better projection for the communities at most risk.

Such long-term funding is rare and hugely important to be able to focus on these complicated real-world scenarios, create new and important global networks, and generate huge impact in the field.

We at COMET are thrilled with this success and look forward to seeing the amazing work and opportunities that will come with the project!