Dr Chris White is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering and ICT. Has a joint engineering and climate impacts background, covering both science and application. He specialises in understanding natural hazards and risk, climate change, sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasting of extreme events and surface water hydrology. He is Vice-President of ICCLAS – one of the ten commissions of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) – where he is furthering the analysis and prediction of the extreme hydrometeorological events using improved modelling approaches and techniques, ensemble hydrological forecasting and flood / drought prediction.