Professor Gregor Leckebusch studied Meteorology at the University of Cologne (Germany), where he completed his PhD on meteorological diagnostics of polar ice cores by means of paleoclimate model simulations. He subsequently worked as a Postdoc to regional extreme event modelling and impact assessment. He was Associate Professor from 2004 to 2010 (Habilitation 2009) at Freie University of Berlin (Institute for Meteorology) and Acting Chair of Dynamical Meteorology at the University of Leipzig (2010/2011) before he joined the University of Birmingham in 2011. He was Director of the NERC DTP CENTA (2019-2022). Since 2019, he is Professor of Meteorology and Climatology and was appointed UK Met Office Joint Chair at the University of Birmingham in October 2022.

Professor Gregor C. Leckebusch’s research focusses on increased understanding of physical processes in weather and climate systems, including their variability on different time and spatial scales. Especially for extreme weather and climate events, his research aims to understand underlying conditions for their genesis and intensification, under natural and potentially anthropogenic changed conditions. His work also investigates questions how to provide targeted estimations of related uncertainties and to derive a sophisticated impact understanding.

Prof. Leckebusch has been Principal Investigator/Co-Investigator/ substantial contributor to >45 national and international research and training grants from public and private sources with a total awarded funding volume of about £21m. He has published over 75 publications in international peer-reviewed journals being cited over 8,000 times (Google Scholar) with an h-index of 41. He is convener at international conferences as AGU, AOGS and EGU, leading e.g., the session "Mid-latitude Cyclones and Storms: Diagnostics of Observed and Future Trends, and related Impacts" since 2009. Prof. Leckebusch has well established contacts to Weather & Climate Services worldwide, and sustained industry collaborations with world-leading re-insurance, brokers, and CAT modelling companies, which funded several of his projects (e.g., GallagherRe, SwissRe).

Prof. Leckebusch was awarded the UK Met Office Joint Chair at the University of Birmingham in 2022. He was Director of the NERC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) CENTA from 2019-2022. He is executive editor of the interdisciplinary journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS), and editor of Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (QJRMetSoc). He is member of the steering committee of the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action (BISCA), member of the board of the University of Birmingham China Institute; member of UoB Research Computing Management Committee.  Prof. Leckebusch is lead author (jointly with Mark McCarthy (MO)) of the State of Climate section of the Fourth Climate Change Risk Independent ​Assessment Technical Report (CCRA4-IA-TR)​  for the UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC).