Professor Sue Grimmond
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Sue Grimmond joined KCL in January 2006 after being Assistant, Associate and Full Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington USA. She completed her undergraduate degree (BSc Hons) at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and graduate degrees (MSc and PhD) at The University of British Columbia (under the supervision of Professor Tim Oke). Currently, she is past President of the International Association of Urban Climate (IAUC) and Lead Expert for the WMO on Urban and Building Climatology. Sue is on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. In 2006 she was elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and awarded Doctor of Science Honoris Causa, from Göteborg University, Sweden. In 2008 she was awarded the Universitatis Lodziensis Amico Medal from University of Łódź, Poland. She is the 2009 recipient of the Helmut E Landsberg Award from the American Meteorological Society 'for numerous important contributions that have greatly advanced urban meteorology and urban climate sciences, and for sustained and effective leadership that has energized the urban climate research community’.
