Dr. Julian Brimelow
Acting Section Manager at Environment and Climate Change Canada
Dr. Julian Brimelow is an adjunct professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Executive Director of the NHP at Western, and is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of Manitoba. He graduated from the University of Pretoria (South Africa) with a BSc in meteorology in 1993, completed his MSc at the University of Alberta in 1999, and earned his PhD at the University of Manitoba in 2011.
Dr. Brimelow has more than 20 years of experience working as an expert in severe convective storms, most recently with Environment Canada. He has participated in multiple research programs and has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature. He draws on specialized observational datasets and numerical modeling to advance our understanding of severe and extreme weather, with a focus on hailstorms and hail.