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Introduction
Amanda Maycock is a climate scientist whose research specifically focuses on climate composition interactions, stratosphere-troposphere coupling, radiative transfer, and climate modeling. Maycock is currently an Associate Professor in Climate Dynamics at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science at the University of Leeds, in Leeds, England, where she is also a NERC Independent Research Fellow.

Education
Maycock received her PhD in Atmosphere, Oceans and Climate from the University of Reading. She received her MSc in Atmosphere, Oceans and Climate, University of Reading and her MPhys in Physics with Astrophysics, from the University of Manchester.

Career & Research
Maycock is currently an NERC Independent Research Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Dynamics at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science (ICAS) at the University of Leeds. In terms of past employment, Maycock spent time working at the Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of Cambridge and the National Centre for Atmospheric Science for England. Maycock has been focusing on climate dynamics on a global scale in relation to variability and change in the stratosphere and troposphere. Her most notable research has been her original contributions to the field of climate processes in the stratosphere and their effects on tropospheric climate and seasonality. Her research has also revealed new mechanisms for the effects of stratospheric water vapor patterns on climate, helping build upon an understanding of how atmospheric temperatures and global circulation have been affected by such mechanisms. In addition, Maycock participated in the uncovering of a new climate feedback loop related to the transport of ozone, which is a result of increased stratospheric circulation under the pressure of climate change.

Publications
The following is a list of some of Maycock's top publications:


 * The temperature response to stratospheric water vapor changes, 2011, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
 * The circulation response to idealized changes in stratospheric water vapour, 2013, Journal of Climate
 * Do split and displacement sudden stratospheric warmings have different annular mode signatures?, 2015, Geophysical Research Letters
 * Stratospheric circulation in seasonal forecasting models: implications for seasonal prediction, 2011, Climate Dynamics
 * Possible impacts of a future grand solar minimum on climate: Stratospheric and global circulation changes, 2015, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Awards and Honors

 * In 2018, Maycock received the Philip Leverhulme Prize from the Leverhulme Trust.
 * In 2019, Maycock was awarded the Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Researchers from the European Geosciences Union.
 * Independent Research Fellowships:


 * CIRES Visiting Fellowship, NOAA, Boulder, 2016
 * NERC Independent Research Fellow, 2015-
 * University Academic Fellow, 2015-
 * Junior Research Fellow, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, 2013-15

Public Engagement
Maycock is the lead author of Working Group I of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. She was also the lead author of the WMO/UNEP 2018 Ozone Assessment Report. Both of these positions contribute greatly to informing politicians, on an international level, about the severity of climate change.