Willem Stefaan Conradie

I completed a BSc in Maths and Applied Maths at UCT, before doing my BSc (Hons) in Atmospheric Science through CSAG. My Honours dissertation was titled "Heat Waves Along South Africa's West Coast". My MSc dissertation was entitled "Conceptualising and quantifying the nonlinear, chaotic climate: Implications for climate model experimental design". It involved running a single model initial condition super-ensemble across multiple super computers to explore initial condition uncertainty in climate projections. At the beginning of 2024, I submitted my PhD thesis tilted "Spatial heterogeneity in rainfall variability over South Africa's Winter Rainfall Zone"; as of September 2024 it is under examination. I've also done work on analysing extreme fire weather in the fynbos biome, collaborating with various researchers at multiple institutions, and on identifying and characterising weather and climate extremes. I am an absolute weather and maps geek and I'm obsessed with weather observations.