With Office chief warning Britain of ‘absolutely unprecedented’ heat wave, spent 10 years designing tank armor
- dr. Penny Endersby is a career scientist and has spent ten years designing tank armor
- Cambridge-trained Endersby took on the position of chief executive of the Met Office in 2018
- dr. Endersby said temperatures of 40C in November were ‘not far off’
- Her career has also included stints at Deloitte and British Gas for her gun role
The With Office The official who starred in the now viral video warning of the dangers of the coming heat wave has spent ten years designing tank armor.
dr. Penny Endersby, the chief executive of the Met Office, is a career scientist and has spent ten years designing armor for combat vehicles.
After studying natural sciences at Cambridge and a short stint with British Gas, Dr. Endersby joined the Ministry of Defense and worked for the Defence, Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL).
At the DSTL, Dr. Endersby is an armor scientist and responsible for designing light, fast and strong armor for tanks and humans – including by conducting explosives and firing tests.
At the DSTL, Dr Endersby was an armor scientist responsible for designing light, fast and strong armor for tanks and humans
She told Grow Media that she “enjoyed being a cool scientist and not thinking about management or operational aspects of the organization.”
dr. Endersby grimly told The Telegraph last November that the 40C temperatures forecast for this week will come in the near future.
Her Met Office said it is considering naming heat waves, in the same way serious storms are called, to raise public awareness.
dr. Endersby told The Sunday Telegraph that the public is now increasingly aware of storms since the weather service started mentioning them.
Now, the same tactics that could be used for heatwaves as concerns are growing over more extremely hot summers in the future.
Last year set a new record for heat-related deaths in the UK according to Public Health England, with summer heatwaves leading to 2,556 deaths – a sharp increase from less than 1,000 in previous years.
dr. Endersby’s inspiration when she entered the sciences as a young woman was that a scientific theory was named after her.
She said her ambition as the daughter of an engineer and classicist in 1970s London was to have an ‘Endersby theory’ taught in universities.
After leaving MOD at the age of 30, Dr. Endersby in management at Deloitte before joining the Met Office in 2018.
Her role as chief executive has become increasingly prominent as extreme weather events become more frequent.
Her most public appearance to date was the bleak that the Met Office released a dramatic video this week warning that Britons are ‘not adapted to what’s to come’ regarding the coming heat wave.
The prolific professor is also a fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a visiting professor of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
Her most public appearance to date was the bleak that the Met Office released a dramatic video this week warning that Britons are “not adapted to what is to come” while warning of “absolutely unprecedented” circumstances for the UK.
Health officials told Brits to “take care of others, especially older people, young children and babies and those with underlying health conditions” – and warned transport bosses of major rail disruptions. Operators advised passengers to avoid non-essential journeys next Monday and Tuesday, with likely speed limits