I always wanted to be a pilot or a physicist.After completing national service in Germany, I was told that I met all the criteria to be a pilot excepting one: persons requiring corrective lenses were not eligible for pilot training. That set me on my current trajectory. I became the first commercial meteorologist in Australia and am currently the director and chief atmospheric physicist at GWCA. To my neighbours, I am the guy who knows stuff about the weather. I am also a glider pilot.I am an expert in numerical weather prediction modelling, climate change processes—both natural and anthropogenic—and the attribution of internal and external climate forcing. As a result of my 20+ years of working with weather and climate-risk sensitive industries, I am highly proficient with regards to risk management. Most importantly, I adhere to the adage: “We are not here to worship what is known but to question it…” As such, I have been actively involved in multi-disciplinary research for more than 30 years. This has led to the development of numerical forecast systems for short and long-term predictions of weather and climate. The innovative solutions developed place GWCA in front of the competition.People sometimes ask me why I am so passionate about atmospheric physics. My response: it is super cool that we can apply the laws of atmospheric physics, to come up with abstract views of the real world in order to simulate and measure with a high degree of accuracy what is happening in the future. Meaning, we can model and predict the weather. How good is this? Specialties: • Atmospheric physics • Aviation meteorology• Weather risk management• Derivative trading• Energy demand forecasting• Environmental and pollution risk management• Emergency management• Risk policy development• Prediction of extreme weather events (temperature, snow, rain, wind, solar, sea state)• Research and development in very high resolution numerical weather prediction• Climate modelling• Radiative transfer in realistic atmospheres (clouds, AP, gases)• New energy science • Renewables• Business development• Connecting weather and energy trading strategies• Natural perils modelling• Consulting on large scale acquisition projects