Appointments
LEAD-AI Postdoctoral FellowUniversity of Bergen2024 — PresentNorwayExplainable machine learning for extreme rainfall dynamics.
Remote ResearcherKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology2025Saudi ArabiaUnderstanding upwelling dynamics in the Red Sea.
Visiting ResearcherImperial College London2024UKCollaborations on SST pattern effect and ENSO.
Postdoctoral ResearcherLEGOS, CNRS, Université de Toulouse2024FranceEarth energy balance and the SST pattern effect.
Research InternScottish Association for Marine Science2019Oban, ScotlandPolar oceanography.
Education
- PhD in Climate PhysicsLEGOS, Université de Toulouse2020 — 2023Climate PhysicsFrance
- Thesis: Influence of Regional Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies on the Planetary Energy Budget.
- Advisors: Benoît Meyssignac and Rémy Roca
MSc by Research in Physical OceanographyBangor University2019 — 2020Physical OceanographyWales, UK- Thesis: El Niño-Induced Upwelling Variability in the Central Tropical Pacific Ocean.
- Advisors: Profs. J. A. Mattias Green and Gareth J. Williams
MSc – Diploma of École polytechniqueÉcole polytechnique2015 — 2019Physical Sciences for the EnvironmentPalaiseau, France
Grants, Fellowships & Awards
- BCCR Training Programme in Machine LearningBjerknes Center for Climate Research2026Norway
450k NOK – Funding to develop a training programme for researchers.
- LEAD-AI Postdoctoral Fellowship – MSCA COFUNDUniversity of Bergen2024Norway
Three year postdoctoral fellowship.
- AMX PhD FellowshipÉcole polytechnique2020France
Three year PhD fellowship.
Service
- Manuscript reviewerJournal of Climate, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research, Weather and Climate Dynamics
- OrganizerBjerknes Centre for Climate Research weekly seminars
Publications
- 2026(submitted)Joshua Oldham-Dorrington, Camille Li, Stefan P. Sobolowski and Robin Guillaume-Castel . "Understanding biases and changes in European heavy precipitation using dynamical flow precursors." (submitted).
- 2025Journal of ClimateRobin Guillaume-Castel, Benoit Meyssignac, "Quantifying the influence of the sea surface temperature pattern effect on transient global warming." Journal of Climate, 2025.
- Geophysical Research LettersRobin Guillaume-Castel, Paulo Ceppi, Joshua Dorrington, Benoit Meyssignac, "ENSO diversity explains interannual variability of the pattern effect." Geophysical Research Letters, 2025.
- 2025Limnology and OceanographyDanielle Spring, Michael Fox, JA Mattias Green, Robin Guillaume-Castel, Zoe Jacobs, Ronan Roche, John Turner, Gareth Williams, "Climate change impacts to upwelling and shallow reef nutrient sources across an oceanic archipelago." Limnology and Oceanography, 2025.
- PhD Thesis - Université de Toulouse III - Paul SabatierRobin Guillaume-Castel, "Influence of the sea surface temperature pattern effect on the global top of the atmosphere energy budget and on global warming." PhD Thesis, 2023.
- Communications Earth & EnvironmentBenoit Meyssignac, Jonathan Chenal, Norman Loeb, Robin Guillaume-Castel, Aurélien Ribes, "Time-variations of the climate feedback parameter λ are associated with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation." Communications Earth & Environment, 2023.
- Journal of ClimateBenoit Meyssignac, Robin Guillaume-Castel, Rémy Roca, "Revisiting the global energy budget dynamics with a multivariate Earth energy balance model to account for the warming pattern effect." Journal of Climate, 2023.
- Science AdvancesMichael Fox, Robin Guillaume-Castel, Clinton Edwards, Jess Glanz, Jamison Gove, JA Green, Ellis Juhlin, Jennifer Smith, Gareth Williams, "Ocean currents magnify upwelling and deliver nutritional subsidies to reef-building corals during El Ni~no heatwaves." Science Advances, 2023.
- Journal of ClimateJonathan Chenal, Benoit Meyssignac, Aurélien Ribes, Robin Guillaume-Castel, "Observational constraint on the climate sensitivity to atmospheric CO 2 concentrations changes derived from the 1971–2017 global energy budget." Journal of Climate, 2022.
- La MétéorologieBenoît Meyssignac, Jonathan Chenal, Robin Guillaume-Castel, Alejandro Blazquez, Sébastien Fourest, "Mesurer le déséquilibre énergétique de la planète pour évaluer la sensibilité du climat aux émissions de gaz à effet de serre; La Météorologie, 2021.
- Limnology and Oceanography: MethodsRobin Guillaume-Castel, Gareth Williams, Justin Rogers, Jamison Gove, JA Mattias Green, "Quantifying upwelling in tropical shallow waters: A novel method using a temperature stratification index." Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 2021.
- MSc ThesisRobin Guillaume-Castel, "El Niño-Induced Upwelling Variability in the Central Tropical Pacific Ocean." MScRes Thesis, 2020.
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society ASian Henley, Marie Porter, Laura Hobbs, Judith Braun, Robin Guillaume-Castel, Emily Venables, Estelle Dumont, Finlo Cottier, "Nitrate supply and uptake in the Atlantic Arctic sea ice zone: seasonal cycle, mechanisms and drivers." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2020.
Talks
- Poster at LEAD-AI Annual MeetingBergen, Norway
- Poster at CFMIPExeter, UK
- Poster at Stormtracks WorkshopRosendal, Norway
- Poster at CFMIPBoston, MA, USA
- Poster at EGU General AssemblyVienna, Austria
- Talk at Université de Toulouse III - Paul SabatierToulouse, France
- Talk at CFMIP–GASS MeetingParis, France
- Poster at ENS Lyon CS WorkshopLyon, France
- 2022Poster at Pattern Effect WorkshopBoulder, CO, USA
- Poster at Pattern Effect WorkshopBoulder, CO, USA
- Talk at International Radiation SymposiumInternational Radiation Symposium
- Talk at EGU General AssemblyVienna, Austria
- Poster at Pattern Effect WorkshopBoulder, CO, USA
- Poster at AGU Fall MeetingAGU Fall Meeting
Teaching
- Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Norway
- Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Norway
- 2025Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Norway
- LEGOS, CNRS, France
- Université Toulouse III, France
- Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS, France
- Bac Ninh High School, Vietnam