Lokesh Jain
I’m Lokesh, a third-year PhD student at The University of Edinburgh. I use numerical models to simulate how icebergs melt around Greenland in order to narrow the uncertainty in future sea level rise projections. I am part of the E4 Doctoral Training Programme which is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council.
I am also an award-winning science communicator and I strongly believe in the importance of communicating scientific research to the general public.
Biography
I studied Physics and Philosophy at Brasenose College, The University of Oxford from 2017-2021. In my final year, I specialised in Astrophysics and Atmospheric & Oceanic Physics. In my Master’s thesis, entitled Dissipation of tides in the convective envelope of stars, I looked at how binary star systems (systems in which two stars orbit each other) lose energy over millions of years and used a stellar evolution code to compare different theories of how tidal flow and convective flow interact in the interior of stars.
From 2021-2022, I was a trainee patent attorney at the intellectual property firm D Young & Co. In my role as Technical Assistant, I worked with a wide range of technologies, including microprocessor design, artificial intelligence, digital electronics and medical devices. I wrote responses to patent examiners across the globe to get patents granted internationally.
However, ultimately the pull of research was too strong, and in September 2022 I joined The University of Edinburgh as a PhD student. Working under Dr Donald Slater and Prof Pete Nienow, I use numerical models to simulate the melting of ice mélange, a collection of icebergs and sea ice which floats in front of Greenland’s largest glaciers. By providing a buttressing force against a glacier, ice mélange impacts ice sheet dynamics, and thus ice sheet stability, by controlling how much ice is lost from the ice sheet to the oceans. As a result, a better understanding of ice mélange will contribute to narrowing the uncertainty in future sea level rise projections. To learn more about my current research, please look at my Research page.
