Dr Karina Bett-Williams

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Geography Department. My work focusses on the interactions between vegetation and the atmosphere in climate models, particularly the response of plants to changing water availability, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and temperature.

I joined Exeter University in September 2019 on a 20% contract, as part of the Global Systems Institute. I also work part-time at the Met Office, currently in the Data Science R&D area, and previously in both the Earth Systems and Mitigation Science area and the Climate Impacts area. I joined the Met Office in 2011. Before that, I worked in Germany, on a three-year Helmholtz Allianz fellowship at the Theoretical Physics department of Bonn University. I received a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Durham University in 2008.