May 2009 – April 2012:
UNSW Vice-Chancellor Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC), University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
2004 – 2007:
PhD at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, on “Southern Hemisphere Regional Precipitation and Climate Variability: Extremes, Trends, and Predictability”
2000 – 2003:
B.Sc. Joint Honours Oceanography / Marine Biology at the School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, United Kingdom
Selected further research experience
October – November 2010: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, USA:
project on links between Indian Ocean variability and regional rainfall and drought over the last 300 years
April – July 2010:
Visiting fellowship at the Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany:
project on changes in tropical Indian Ocean properties in high-resolution ocean models
March 2006: research cruise on “RV Tangaroa” from New Zealand to undertake hydrographic survey of the Macquarie Ridge and the Solander Trough
January – March 2004: Canadian Center for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Meteorological Service of Canada, at the University of Victoria, Canada:
project to improve treatments of heat and moisture exchange over open water (leads) in sea-ice in a single-column atmosphere-sea ice model
August – September 2003: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany:
biogeochemical analyses of sea-ice samples from the White Sea, Russia
Jan. 2010: Uwe Radok Award by the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
(for best PhD thesis awarded in 2007/2008 in Australia in ocean/atmosphere/climate science)
Oct. 2008: UNSW Goldstar Award
Aug. 2008: Eureka Prize for Water Research and Innovation by the Australian Museum
