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Rosemary Willatt became a Lecturer in the department in 2024. Her research focuses on sea ice and polar oceans, which play key roles in Earth's climate. She conducts experiments in cold laboratories in the Arctic and Antarctic to advance the understanding of the physical properties of snow and ice, enabling monitoring of polar Essential Climate Variables through remote sensing, including the use of satellite radar altimetry data to estimate sea ice and snow thickness. She plans and conducts polar field campaigns, analyzing geophysical radar data from surface-based, airborne, and satellite instruments, and advises space agencies on Earth Observation satellite mission development. Currently, she is focusing on the development of a novel technique for estimating snow depth on sea ice, for which she was awarded the inaugural Konrad Steffen award by the European Space Agency (ESA) for her work in early stages. She is the Principal Investigator (PI) on the ESA-funded project developing the Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter (PoSARA) concept, and she champions EDI and sustainability within her field.