Ali is the founding director of CREST. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) at Imperial College (2018-2022), a NERC Independent Research Fellow and a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford/St. Hugh’s College (2017-2018). Ali got his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2013 and was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT (2013-2016) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (2016-2017).

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