Janet Barlow is a professor of environmental physics in University of Reading. Her research is mostly centred around urban meteorology and is motivated by the need to understand fundamental atmospheric processes, with application to weather forecasting, urban sustainability, indoor and outdoor air quality, building ventilation, and environmental wind engineering. Janet's work is largely experimental in nature, using both wind-tunnel based physical modelling and urban observational campaigns. Another significant area is energy meteorology, which involves wind power, boundary layer flow effects around wind farms, and integration of renewable energy into the energy system. She has also worked on insect flight in the atmospheric boundary layer.