Professor Lee Chapman PhD FRMetS FHEA

Professor Lee Chapman

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor of Climate Resilience & Met Office Joint Chair
Deputy Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer (College of Life and Environmental Sciences)

Contact details

Telephone
0121 414 7435
Fax
+44 (0)121 414 5528
Email
l.chapman@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Professor Lee Chapman’s research interests are at the interface of climatology and engineering investigating the impact of weather and climate on the built environment; an important research area given the ever-increasing concentration (and vulnerability) of the population and critical infrastructure in urban areas. This covers a range of topics and sub-disciplines including infrastructure meteorology, urban climatology and climate change adaptation.  Knowledge transfer, impact and business engagement are at the heart of this research agenda and underpins much of his work.

Qualifications

  • BSc Geography (University of Sheffield, 1998)
  • PhD Geography (黑料吃瓜网, 2002)
  • PG Cert in Learning & Teaching (黑料吃瓜网, 2009)

Biography

Professor Lee Chapman聽completed his PhD聽entitled "A Blueprint for 21st Century Road Ice Prediction"聽here in Birmingham. The aim of the project was to assimilate the then emerging聽GIS and GPS聽technologies to develop the next generation of road weather prediction models (Route Based Forecasting). The main application was to accurately forecast road surface temperatures enabling optimal salt usage by local councils.聽 A university spin-out company called Entice Technology Ltd was set up commercialise the work. The business was sold in 2006 to Weather Services International Ltd.聽

Professor Chapman is still actively involved in research and business engagement with respect to winter road maintenance.聽He is past President (now secretary)聽of the Standing International Road Weather Commission (SIRWEC) and CEO of Altasense, a University Operating Division selling Internet of Things weather monitoring solutions to highway and railway engineers.聽 The flagship product 'wintersense' was licensed to Campbell Scientific Ltd in 2019 and is now marketed across the world.聽

He was awarded the 2013 RGS Cuthbert Peek award for advancing knowledge of urban climatology through GIS and remote sensing, the 2014聽RMetS聽Innovation Award for 鈥榤aking meteorological measurements that matter鈥櫬燼nd the 2017 Harry Otten Prize for Innovation in Meteorology.聽 聽He聽became Professor of Climate Resilience in 2016 and has co-authored all three of the UK Climate Change Risk Assessments.

Teaching

Professor Lee Chapman is a Fellow of the and has a significant teaching profile which spans several programmes of study.

His teaching methods and assessment strategies were informed by studying for a PGCert in Learning and Teaching which Professor Chapman completed in 2009. He was nominated for a prize in Level 1 of the course and won a prize for Level 2 where he had his teaching project published:

Chapman, L. (2010) Dealing with maths anxiety: How do you teach mathematics in a geography department? Journal of Geography in Higher Education 34:205-213.

Postgraduate supervision

Postgraduate supervision

Professor Chapman has supervised 19 students to completion and currently supervises postgraduate students:

Yongjian Li:聽Extending the utility of connected vehicles for winter road maintenance (Chinese Scholarship Council / Li Siguang)
Chenguang Xiao:聽Federated learning for internet of things networks (School Studentship)
Yanzhi Lu:聽The role of trees in reducing the impact of environmental stressors聽(Self-Funded)
Nicole Cowell:聽Distributed measurements of particulate matter (Self-Funded)
Nigar Parvin:聽Using green infrastructure to improve human health (Funded by Prime Minister Bangladesh Fellowship)

Potential students should contact Professor Chapman directly.

Research

Professor Lee Chapman鈥檚聽research interests are at the interface of climatology and engineering investigating聽the impact of weather and climate on the built environment; an important research area given the ever-increasing concentration (and vulnerability) of the population and critical infrastructure in urban areas. This covers a range of topics and sub-disciplines including infrastructure meteorology, urban climatology and climate change adaptation. 聽Knowledge transfer, impact and business engagement are at the heart of this research agenda and underpins much of his work.

Other activities

  • Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute
  • Member of the NERC Advisory Network
  • Member of the EPSRC ICT Strategic Advisory Team
  • Member of the NERC Peer Review College and EPSRC Peer Review College
  • Secretary of the Standing International Road Weather Commission
  • Associate editor of Transport Behaviour and Society

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Cowell, N, Baldo, C, Chapman, L, Bloss, W & Zhong, J 2024, '', Meteorological Applications, vol. 31, no. 4, e2220.

Chapman, L, Bell, S & Randall, S 2023, '', Urban Climate, vol. 49, 101542.

Rogers, CDF, Grayson, N, Sadler, JP, Chapman, L, Bouch, CJ, Cavada, M & Leach, JM 2023, '', Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, vol. 5, 1171996.

Budnitz, H, Tranos, E & Chapman, L 2023, '', GeoJournal, vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 613-638.

Hodgson, JR, Chapman, L & Pope, FD 2022, '', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 842, 156825.

Cowell, N, Chapman, L, Bloss, W & Pope, F 2022, '', Frontiers in Environmental Science, vol. 9, 798485.

Cowell, N, Chapman, L, Bloss, W, Srivastava, D, Bartington, S & Singh, A 2022, '', Environmental Science: Atmospheres.

Feng, J, Cai, X & Chapman, L 2021, '', International Journal of Climatology, vol. 41, no. S1, pp. E445-E462.

Hodgson, JR, Chapman, L & Pope, FD 2021, '', International Journal of Biometeorology, vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 1427-1442.

Comment/debate

Ukkusari, S, Park, SU, Mittal, S, Chapman, L, Manoli, G, Santos, A, Jones, N, Avnar, P & Romero, N 2024, '', Nature, vol. 632, pp. 253-256.

Commissioned report

Acton, J, Anderson, P, Andres, L, Angus, M, Amor, P, Arrowsmith, J (ed.), Asmelash, H, Bartington, S (ed.), Bengtsson, F, Bhullar, L, Bloss, W, Bonet, B, B枚rner, S, O Bonsu, N, Bryson, JR, Burns, V, Burrows, A, Calvert, C, Cassidy, N, Cavoski, A, Chadyiwa, M, Chapman, H, Chapman, L, Cockram, M, Degendardt, L, Dickinson, D, Ding, Y, Dobrzynski, D, Dolo, M, Dora, J, Ercolani, M, Ersoy, A, Farag, H, Ferranti, E, Fisher, R, Freer, M, Goldmann, N, Goode, CE, Greenham, S, Gulati, S, Hadfield-Hill, S, Harper, G, Hegerl, G, Hillmansen, S, Holmes, J, Huang, JJ, Huser, C, Jackson, R, Jaroszweski, D, Jefferson, I, Johnson, J, Kaewunruen, S, Kelly-Akinnuoye, F, Kettles, G, Kraftl, P, Krause, S, Leckebusch, GC, Lee, R, Lockwood, B (ed.), Lohse, J, Luna Diez, E, Lynch, I (ed.), MacKenzie, R, Maddison, D, Makepeace, J, Mann, V, Marino, R, Mavronicola, N, McDonald, M, McGowan, K (ed.), Metje, N, Ng, K, Nicol, J, O'Sullivan, C, Phalkey, N, Prestwood, E, Pyatt, N, Quinn, A, Radcliffe, J (ed.), Ravi, M, Reardon, L, Reeder, T, O鈥橰egan, P, Remedios, L, Roberts, J, Rogers, C, Rungskunroch, P, van Schaik, W, Swan, J (ed.), Thomson, I, Toft, H (ed.), Tong, J, Botello Villagrana, F, Walton, A, Wason, C (ed.), Weir, C, Wood, R & Zhong, J 2021, . 黑料吃瓜网.

Other report

Cowell, N, Chapman, L, Bloss, W & Dewar, S 2023, . WM-Air, 黑料吃瓜网.

Ferranti, E, Futcher, J, Salter, K, Hodgkinson, S & Chapman, L 2021, . Trees and Design Action Group Trust.

Review article

Cowell, N, Chapman, L, Topping, D, James, P, Bell, D, Bannan, T, Murabito, E, Evans, J & Birkin, M 2025, '', Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, vol. 6, 1500516.

Lu, Y, Ferranti, E, Chapman, L & Pfrang, C 2023, '', Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, vol. 83, 127917.