Greg Cooke
- Email: pygjc@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: 3D simulations of rocky exoplanets and their atmospheres
- Supervisors: Professor Dan Marsh, Dr Catherine Walsh
Profile
I am a PhD Student in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds investigating exoplanet and planetary atmospheres through ‘high-top’ 3D chemistry-climate simulations (fully coupled). I recieved my MPhys in Physics from the University of Manchester in 2019.
See my personal website at www.gregcooke.co.uk.
Publications:
- ‘A revised lower estimate of ozone columns during Earth’s oxygenated history’ (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211165)
- ‘Variability due to climate and chemistry in observations of oxygenated Earth-analogue exoplanets’ (https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2604)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-0979
I was a member of the 2020-2022 Priestley Climate Scholars cohort (https://climate.leeds.ac.uk/opportunities/climate-scholars/).
Code developments: https://github.com/G-J-Cooke
Research interests
- Terrestrial planet habitability
- Proterozoic and Phanerozoic Earth
- Biosignatures and their detectability
- Chemical detectability through atmospheric observations (transmission/emission spectra)
- Chemistry and photochemstry and their coupling to climate
- Terrestrial planetary evolution and terrestrial atmospheric evolution
- Terrestrial exoplanet dynamics
Qualifications
- MPhys Physics, University of Manchester, UK