2021–present
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Senior Research Associate, School of Geography and the Environment
Simon Moulds
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Senior Research Associate at University of Oxford
Research Area
Hydrometeorological extremes, water resources management, environmental model development.
Positions
2019–2021
Imperial College London
London, UK
Research Assocate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2017–2019
University of Exeter
Exeter, UK
Research Fellow, Centre for Water Systems
Education
2012–2017
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Hydrology), Imperial College London
London, UK
Advised by Wouter Buytaert and Ana Mijic
Toward integrated modelling systems to assess the vulnerability of water resources under environmental change.
2010–2011
M.Sc. in Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Imperial College London
London, UK
Advised by Adrian Butler and Nick Woodman
Distinction
2007–2010
B.Eng. (Hons) in Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
First class
Notable Awards
2019
Editor's Choice Award
Water Resources Research
Annual award indicating a publication of high quality and significance, for O'Keeffe, Moulds et al. (2018).
2014
Mobility Award
Climate-KIC
Funding (£10,000) towards an extended research visit to Ecuador.
2013
Best Pitch Award
Climate-KIC
Prize awarded at the Climate-KIC business and innovation summer school.
2012
Best Poster Award
British Hydrological Society
Award for best poster at the British Hydrological Society Peter Wolf Symposium, selected by Dr Eleanor Blyth and Prof Howard Wheater.
2012–2016
PhD studentship
Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment
Competitive Ph.D studentship to study at Imperial College London.
2010–2011
Postgraduate studentship
UK Natural Environment Research Council
Competitive master's studentship to study for an M.Sc in Hydrology and Water Resources Management at Imperial College London.
2010
Engineering Undergraduate Prize
University of Birmingham
Annual prize awarded to highest overall scoring student in Civil Engineering at the University of Birmingham.
2010
Tom Essery Prize for Water Engineering
University of Birmingham
Annual prize to Civil Engineering student at the University of Birmingham taking account of academic performance and general contribution to the life of the department.
Research Funding
2020–2021
Monitoring the urban water cycle for flood resilience in sub-Saharan Africa
GCRF
Principal Investigator
2020–2021
Flood and Drought Research Infrastructure
NERC
Named postdoctoral researcher
Industry Collaboration
2019–present
Riverlabs
Developing wireless communication protocols for low-cost environmental sensors using IoT technologies.
2019
Natural Capital Research
Developing a hydrological model to quantify the potential of peatland restoration to reduce flood peaks in rural catchments in Scotland.
Publications [Interactive Version]
Submitted
S3
Phenotyping urban built and natural environments with high-resolution satellite images and unsupervised deep learning [in review]
Barbara Metzler, Ricky Nathvani, Viktoriia Sharmanska, Wenjia Bai, Emily Muller, Simon Moulds, Charles Agyei-Asabere, Dina Adjei-Boadi, Elvis Kyere-Gyeabour, Jacob Doku Tetteh, George Owusu, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Jill Baumgartner, Brian E Robinson, Raphael E Arku, Majid Ezzati.
Science of the Total Environment, 2023
S2
Soil Moisture to Runoff (SM2R): A data-driven model for runoff estimation across poorly gauged Asian water towers based on soil moisture dynamics [in review]
X. Li, D. Long, L. J. Slater, S. Moulds, M. Shahid, P. Han, F. Zhao.
Water Resources Research, 2023
S1
Hybrid forecasting: using statistics and machine learning to integrate predictions from dynamical models
L. J. Slater, L. Arnal, M.-A. Boucher, A. Y.-Y. Chang, S. Moulds, C. Murphy, G. Nearing, G. Shalev, C. Shen, L. Speight, G. Villarini, R. L. Wilby, A. Wood, M. Zappa.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 2022
Published
P17
Skillful decadal flood prediction
Simon Moulds, Louise J. Slater, Nick J. Dunstone, Doug M. Smith.
Geophysical Research Letters, 2023
Highlighted in AGU Eos
P16
Characterisation of urban environment and activity across space and time using street images and deep learning in Accra
Ricky Nathvani, Sierra Clark, Emily Muller, A. Alli, J. Bennett, J. Nimo, J. B. Moses, S. Baah, Barbara Metzler, Michael Brauer, Esra Suel, A. Hughes, T. Rashid, Emily Gemmell, Simon Moulds, Jill Baumgartner, M. Toledano, E. Agyemang, George Owusu, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Raphael E. Arku, Majid Ezzati.
Scientific Reports, 2022
P15
Localized Hydrological Drought Early Warning using In-situ Groundwater Sensors
William Veness, Adrian Butler, Boris F. Ochoa-Tocachi, Simon Moulds, Wouter Buytaert.
Water Resources Research, 2022
P14
Geographic Inequalities in Household Drinking Water Use in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana
Jacob D. Tetteh, Michael R. Templeton, George Owusu, S. M. Yidana, Simon Moulds, Alicia Cavanaugh, Honor Bixby, S. K. Annim, R. Quartey, S. Mintah, A. A. Bawah, Brian Robinson, Raphael E. Arku, Majid Ezzati, Samuel Agyei-Mensah.
Population and Environment, 2022
P13
Parameterizing the JULES land surface model for different land covers in the tropical Andes
Hsi-Kai Chou, Boris F. Ochoa-Tocachi, Simon Moulds, Wouter Buytaert.
Hydrological Sciences Journal, 2022
P12
Sachet water in Ghana: a spatiotemporal analysis of the recent upward trend in consumption and its relationship with changing household characteristics, 2010-2017
Simon Moulds, Anson C. H. Chan, Jacob D. Tetteh, Honor Bixby, George Owusu, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Majid Ezzati, Wouter Buytaert, Michael R. Templeton.
PLOS One, 2022
P11
Modeling the Impacts of Urban Flood Risk Management on Social Inequality
Simon Moulds, Wouter Buytaert, Michael R. Templeton, Ishmael Kanu.
Water Resources Research, 2021
Highlighted in Nature Climate Change and AGU Eos
P10
A methodology to downscale water demand data with application to the Andean region (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile)
Charles Zogheib, Boris F. Ochoa-Tocachi, Simon Moulds, Juan Ossa-Moreno, Marcos Villacis, Carlos Verano, Wouter Buytaert.
Hydrological Sciences Journal, 2021
P9
Isolating the impacts of anthropogenic water use within the hydrological regime of north India
Jimmy O'Keeffe, Simon Moulds, Johanna M. Scheidegger, Christopher R. Jackson, Tarun Nair, Ana Mijic.
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2020
P8
Effects of winter and summer-time irrigation over Gangetic Plain on the mean and intra-seasonal variability of Indian summer monsoon
Shubhi Agrawal, Arindam Chakraborty, Nirupam Karmakar, Simon Moulds, Ana Mijic, Wouter Buytaert.
Climate Dynamics, 2019
P7
A spatio-temporal land use and land cover reconstruction for India from 1960–2010
P6
Including Farmer Irrigation Behavior in a Sociohydrological Modeling Framework With Application in North India
Jimmy O'Keeffe, Simon Moulds, Emma Bergin, Nick Brozović, Ana Mijic, Wouter Buytaert.
Water Resources Research, 2018
Editor's Choice Award
P5
Climate change impacts on the water resources of the Ganges basin–Grantham Briefing Note 6
Simon Moulds, Jimmy O'Keeffe, Wouter Buytaert, Ana Mijic.
Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, 2017
P4
Glacial melt content of water use in the tropical Andes
Wouter Buytaert, Simon Moulds, Luis Acosta, Bert De Bièvre, Carlos Olmos, Marcos Villacis, Carolina Tovar, Koen M. J. Verbist.
Environmental Research Letters, 2017
P3
An ensemble of spatially explicit land-cover model projections: prospects and challenges to retrospectively evaluate deforestation policy
Andrew V. Bradley, Isabel M. D. Rosa, Amintas Brandão Jr., Stefano Crema, Carlos Dobler, Simon Moulds, Sadia E. Ahmed, Tiago Carneiro, Matthew J. Smith, Robert M. Ewers.
Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 2017
P2
An open and extensible framework for spatially explicit land use change modelling: the lulcc R package
P1
Historical and future landcover changes in the Upper Ganges basin of India
Gina Tsarouchi, Ana Mijic, Simon Moulds, Wouter Buytaert.
International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2014
Conference
C6
Improving decadal flood prediction in northern Europe by selecting ensemble members based on North Atlantic Oscillation skill
Simon Moulds, Louise J. Slater, Nick J. Dunstone.
EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 2022
C5
A socio-hydrological model to explore the role of social inequality on human-flood interactions
C4
Evaluating the ERA5 reanalysis dataset in the context of weather index-based insurance in sub-Saharan Africa
Simon Moulds, Charles Zogheib, Wouter Buytaert.
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2019
C3
Towards a system dynamics model of the Indo-Gangetic Plain for sustainable water resources management
Simon Moulds, Jimmy O'Keeffe, Slobodan Djordjevic, Dragan Savic.
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2018
C2
A Spatial Allocation Procedure to Downscale Regional Crop Production Estimates from an Integrated Assessment Model
Simon Moulds, Slobodan Djordjevic, Dragan Savic.
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2017
C1
Modelling land use change in the Ganga basin
Mentoring
PhD Students
2019–2022
Ishmael Kanu
Imperial College London
Master's Students
2020–2021
6 M.Eng (Civil Engineering) students
Imperial College London
2019–2021
3 M.Sc (Hydrology and Water Resources Management) students
Imperial College London
Teaching
2021
Meteorology and Climate Change (M.Sc)
Imperial College London
Teaching Assistant,
20 students
Prepared a series of Jupyter notebooks for students to learn climate data processing and visualization.
2020-2021
Water Quality Engineering and Ecohydrology (M.Sc)
Imperial College London
Course lecturer,
20 students
Prepared and taught lectures. Prepared and graded assignments. Set and marked examination.
2020-2021
Hydrological Processes (M.Sc)
Imperial College London
Teaching Assistant,
20 students
2020-2021
Hydrometry (M.Sc)
Imperial College London
Teaching Assistant,
20 students
2014-2016
Water Resource and Supply Engineering
Imperial College London
2013-2014
Computational Methods 1 (Year 1 M.Eng)
Imperial College London
Service
Reviewer for Water Resources Research, Hydrology and Earth Systems Science, Environmental Modelling & Software, Landscape Ecology, Climatic Change, Land Use Policy.