Louise Sime

Louise Sime is a climate scientist and earth system modeller affiliated with the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. She leads a 40-person interdisciplinary team focused on Ice Dynamics and Paleoclimate, contributing to projects like EU-P2F, EU-TiPES, EU-ANTSIE, EU-DEEPICE, and SWAIS2C. Her work integrates ice core measurements with numerical methods to enhance climate models, particularly the UKESM, and investigate dynamics during past and current warm climates.

Research interests include:

• Developing UKESM to incorporate ice core data for improved climate simulations
• Analyzing abrupt sea ice loss through the CMIP7 FastTrack protocol
• Studying West Antarctic Ice Sheet stability in warm climate scenarios
• Interglacial climate dynamics and land-atmosphere interactions

She coordinates projects like SURFEIT (Antarctic surface fluxes) and fosters international collaborations. Her team provides structured PhD student and postdoctoral researcher support via bi-weekly meetings.