Victoria Sinclair

Victoria Sinclair is has been a member of the Committee on Meetings since 2020.
On Saturday 30 May she died in a terrible accident during a hiking tour in the Pyrenees at the age of only 42, in the prime of her life and career.

She was a  University lecturer and docent in at the University of Helsinki in the research group on Dynamical Meteorology. Her research primarily focused on the dynamics of extra-tropical cyclones and how these weather systems will change in the future. Other topics of interest included heat waves, low-level jets, poleward moisture transport and transport of pollution and aerosol particles. In her research she used numerical weather prediction models – OpenIFS and WRF – as well as reanalysis data sets and FLEXPART, a Lagrangian Dispersion model.

Over 15 years Victoria has been a frequent participant of the EMS Annual Meetings, since she first received a Young Scientist Travel Award for attending the EMS2011 in Berlin. She was convener of the UP1.3 session on atmospheric hazards and severe weather for many years and member of the support selection committee for the Annual Meetings. Victoria was also a member (fellow, FRMetS) of the Royal Meteorological Society.

We remember her as a brilliant scientist, great colleague with passion for science and committed member of the European meteorological community.