The National Capability for Global Challenges Visiting Scientist Scheme enables UKCEH staff working with international connections that are of strategic importance to our Net Zero Plus work to host international and UK-based visitors at UKCEH for a minimum of four weeks.

Meet some of our visiting scientists

Rashmi Kulranjan with her host Helen Baron

Rashmi Kulranjan

Home institute: Water Environment Land and Livelihoods labs, India
Dates of visit: 23 March - 27 April 2025
Host: Helen Baron
Project: Implementation of a regional hydrological model into the GWAVA model

Jemimah Gacheru stands in front of the UKCEH sign wearing a grey coat and woolly hat

Jemimah Gacheru

Home institute: Kenya Meteorological Department
Dates of visit: 3 February - 14 March 2025
Host: Guillaume Chagnaud
Project: How to better understand and characterise heat stress in Kenya

Yi Wen Mok showing their poster to a group of scientists

Yi Wen Mok

Home institute: Universiti Putra Malaysia
Dates of visit: 22 September - 18 October 2024
Host: Rameshwaran Ponnambalam 
Project: Hydrological modelling for watershed management

Joseph Ovwemuvwose

Joseph Ovwemuvwose

Home institute: Imperial College London 
Dates of visit: 09 September - 18 October 2024
Host: Eleanor Blyth
Project: Development of a JULES training programme for African academics

Joseph Ibrahim stands in a grassy area wearing jeans, a black vest, a beige hat and a rucksack

Joseph Ibrahim

Home institute: University of Jos Biological Conservatory, Nigeria and University of Glasgow, Scotland
Dates of visit: 13 August - 20 September 2024
Host: David Roy
Project: Butterfly monitoring protocols in different bio-geographic regions

Read Joseph's reflections on his visit