Ellie Highwood farfesa ce a fannin ilimin kimiyyar yanayi a jami’ar karatu kuma ta kasance shugaban wannan sashen daga shekara ta 2012 har zuwa shekara ta 2015. Ta kasance memba a cikin RMetS Council da Kwamitin Ilimi. A ranar 1 ga watan Oktoban shekara ta 2016 ta zama 81st shugaban kasar na Royal meteorological Society (RMetS). Highwood ta karanci kimiyyar lissafi a jami’ar Manchester sannan ya yi karatun digiri na uku a jami’ar karatu . Binciken nata ya maida hankali ne kan abubuwan da suka shafi yanayi a cikin yanayi, musamman tasirin aerosol kan canjin yanayi da kwaikwayon yanayin yanayi. A shekara ta 2015 kuma ta dauki matsayin Dean na Banbanci da Hadawa a Jami'ar Karatu, wanda rabo ne tare da Farfesa Simon Chandler-Wilde. An tattauna aikin nata a cikin fitattun littattafai, kamar su Independent da BBC . Ta ya bayar da hujjar cewa sanyaya duniya artificially ta "alura kankanin na nuna barbashi cikin yanayi" (kamar yadda samarwa da Paul Crutzen, misali) zai iya haddasa "(fari) da sauyin yanayi hargitsi" a matalauta kasashen, albeit tare da faɗi cewa zai zama "hankali ne don bincika wasu hanyoyin da za su iya taimaka mana a cikin shekarun da suka gabata".