Maria Caffrey

Principal Scientist at National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

Speaker

Dr Maria Caffrey is a Principal Scientist at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL), specialising in climate science, climate risk and the application of measurement science to improve confidence in climate data and analytics.

Her work focuses on strengthening the quality, transparency and comparability of climate information used in decision-making, including climate observations, model outputs and physical risk analytics. She works across science, finance and industry to explore how robust standards, uncertainty assessment and independent validation can support more credible and actionable climate risk information.

Before joining NPL, Maria worked in the climate technology sector in the United States, including at Gro Intelligence, where she led climate science activities and contributed to the development of climate peril and risk products. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Tennessee, with a research background in climate and environmental change.