Our People
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Richard is Professor and Director of the Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre ( www.piccc.org.au ), a joint research initiative between the University of Melbourne and Agriculture Victoria... -
Tansu Alpcan’s research involves applications of distributed decision making, game theory, communicaton and control to various security and resource allocation problems in networked and energy... -
Peter Vortisch is Professor (W3) for Transport Studies at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT), and Head of the Institute for Transport Studies. Research Interests Modelling transport,... -
Lars Coenen joined MSSI in January 2017 as the inaugural ‘City of Melbourne Chair of Resilient Cities’, an initiative between the City of Melbourne and University of Melbourne aimed at improving the... -
Teaching Introduction to hydrogeology Applied hydrogeology Regional hydrogeology Karst hydrogeology Hydrological tracing techniques Field school, field trips Research Hydrogeology of karst aquifer... -
Dr Behzad Rismanchi joined the Department of Infrastructure of the University of Melbourne in August 2015 as a Lecturer in Building Energy. Dr Rismanchi is a professional member of Engineers... -
Adam is a Senior Lecturer Faculty of Business and Economics at Melbourne University, and holds a doctorate from Oxford University in carbon finance. Adam is also CEO and Co-Founder of RedGrid; an... -
Dr Sebastian Thomas is an interdisciplinary researcher with a background in climate strategy and environmental social science. His work examines human-nature relations – the interconnected economic,... -
Professor Mark Stevenson is an epidemiologist and Professor of Urban Transport and Public Health at the University of Melbourne. His appointment is across the Melbourne Schools of Design, Engineering... -
Todd Lane is an atmospheric scientist with research interests that include atmospheric dynamics, mesoscale meteorology, thunderstorms, aircraft turbulence, cloud processes, numerical modelling and... -
Dr. Goeppert has expertise in groundwater quality, tracing techniques, solute and colloidal transport, hydrochemistry -
Dr Sangeetha Chandrashekeran is the Deputy Director of MSSI. She holds a joint position in MSSI and as a lecturer and researcher in the School of Geography, Faculty of Science at the University of... -
Dr Peter Christoff teaches and researches climate politics and policy in the Department of Resource Management and Geography. He is a member of the Victorian Ministerial Reference Council on Climate... -
Philomena Murray is Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She is the Director of the Research Unit on Regional Governance ast the EU Centre on... -
Research Interests Dye sensitised solar cells Flexible electronics Organic electronic materials Organic semi-conductors Organic solar cells Printed solar cells Solar Cell Research (renewable energy) -
Ben is a Research Fellow in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne, working with David Karoly, Murray Peel, Rory Nathan and Ailie Gallant on the Victorian Drought Risk Inference... -
Dr Guillermo Narsilio is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (and Associate Professor) in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at The University of Melbourne. He is also a member of... -
Lu Aye is a Professor in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Prof. Aye has an international collaboration in Exchange programs, Research, Technical... -
A/Prof Malte Meinshausen is Deputy Academic Convenor of the College at The University of Melbourne since 2012 and is affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany. He... -
Prof. Jan Christoph Minx, PhD, is head of the Working Group Applied Sustainability Science at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) and is Professor for Science-... -
Alexander Colsmann studied physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, where he received his diploma in 2003. He worked on his diploma thesis “Light emission and transistor effect in... -
Alan Pears AM is a Fellow at the Climate and Energy College and a Senior Industry Fellow at RMIT, where he taught for many years. He has worked in the energy field since the late 1970s, mainly on... -
Expertise: Near-surface geothermal energy Nuclear repository mass movements Heat and gas storage (CO2 storage) Divide and karst systems geomaterials -
Dr. Claudia Stephan is leading the group cloud-wave coupling. Tropical clouds play a key role in determining Earth's temperatures and circulation but climate models show a disconcerting diversity at... -
Prof Mike Sandiford is an ARC Professorial Research Fellow studying tectonic activity within the Indo-Australian tectonic plate, particularly focussing on the factors that have shaped the landscape... -
Dr Brendan Cullen is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, researching and teaching in pasture agronomy, livestock production systems and farm systems modelling. -
Marco Ghisalberti is in the Environmental Hydrology and Water Resources group in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering. His research is in the area of environmental fluid mechanics and... -
Rory Nathan has over 35 years’ experience in engineering and environmental hydrology. He has spent the majority of his career in private industry, and now focuses his time on research and teaching in... -
Ian Young is Kernot Professor of Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Prior to this appointment he held the administrative roles of Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University and... -
Dirk Notz is a Professor for sea-ice research at the University of Hamburg and Head of the Research Group "Sea ice in the Earth system" at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. His research interests... -
Professor David Karoly is an internationally recognised expert in climate change and climate variability, including greenhouse climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and interannual climate... -
Professor Chris Ryan, Director of the Victorian Eco Innovation Lab at the University of Melbourne, has worked for over 30 years across various areas of science, technology, environmental policy and... -
Jan Cermak's main research interest is the role of aerosol and clouds in the climate system, which he tries to better understand using remote-sensing approaches. At KI, he is a member of the... -
Kathryn Bowen is a social epidemiologist working at the nexus of global change, health and governance issues. Her formal qualifications are BA/Psyc (Hons) (Newcastle) and MSc (International Health) (... -
Fiona Haines is an Academic Co-Director of the College. She is also Professor of Criminology at the University of Melbourne. Her research, which encompasses work on society/industry relationships... -
Prof. Dr. Victor Brovkin is Leader of Climate-Biogeosphere Interaction group, Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany. His research interests include: Interactions between climate and... -
Robyn Eckersley was educated at the University of Western Australia, Cambridge University (UK) and the University of Tasmania, and taught political science at Monash University from 1992-2001 before... -
Dr. Grant Blashki has been a practicing GP for over 20 years and is an Associate Professor in Global Health at the Nossal Institute for Global Health at the University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of... -
Lee Godden (PhD, MA, B.Leg S, BA Hons) is the Director, Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law. She researches in environmental resources law, natural resources law, water law, and... -
Jacqueline Peel is a Professor of law and Associate Director of the Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law at the University of Melbourne Law School. She is also a co-chair of the... -
Dr Peterson has over 17 years experience in hydrological and hydrogeological research and consulting. His research focus is on detecting long-term change in catchment hydrological processes and... -
Conrad Wasko is currently a McKenzie Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Conrad has over ten years’ experience in both consulting and research. Conrad’s research has won him numerous awards... -
John Wiseman is a Professorial Fellow with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute and with the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. He is also a Research Fellow... -
A/Prof Margaret Young is an Academic Co-Director of the College. She is the Director of Studies, Environmental Law at the Melbourne Law School. She researches and teaches in the fields of public... -
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Michael Brear is the Director of the Melbourne Energy Institute at the University of Melbourne. He guides the Institute’s research on the technical, economic, environmental and social impacts of... -
Dr. James Daniell is a John Monash Scholar, Lecturer, Postdoc Researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in CEDIM (Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology) He is... -
Keirnan Fowler is a hydrologist with 11 years’ experience across industry and academia. His research has two main points of focus: (i) understanding how natural river catchments responded to past... -
Katja Frieler holds a Diploma in Mathematics of the University of Bielefeld and a Ph.D. in “Physics of the Atmosphere” of the University of Potsdam. As Ph.D. student she worked at the Alfred-Wegener-... -
A/Prof Robert Crawford has broad research expertise and interest in the built environment, sustainability, life cycle assessment and renewable energy. His research focuses on building environmental... -
Professor Beverley-Ann Biggs leads a group of clinicians and researchers with interests in infectious diseases, maternal and child health, and immigrant health. International health activities are... -
Dr Wong is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Chemistry, the University of Melbourne. He is a Chief Investigator and Research Theme leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science. Dr Wong... -
Prof. Dr. Michael Kunz is Leader of the working group Atmospheric Risks, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research - Department of Tropospheric Research (IMK-TRO) at KIT and Spokesman of the... -
Professor Andrew Western has more than twenty-five years experience in catchment and waterway research, teaching and consulting. He has worked as a researcher for the Centre for Environmental Applied... -
Dr. Louise Jeffery is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany where she leads the PRIMAP emissions module group. At PIK, Louise examines the... -
A/Prof Minnegal lectures in anthropology at the University of Melbourne, with primary teaching and supervision interests in the areas of ecological/environmental anthropology and economic... -
Luke Connal received a bachelor’s of Chemical engineering in 2002 and a PhD in polymer chemistry in 2007 both from the University of Melbourne, Australia. From 2007 to 2009 he completed a post-... -
Dr Wagner is the Head of the group “Characterization of mechanical and electrical properties” Her expertise are Perovskites, Ferroelectric materials, Mechanical properties of brittle materials,... -
Dr. Wiens is an economist and head of the Risk Management Research Group at the Institute for Industrial Operations and Industrial Production (IIP) and Research Fellow at the Pamplin College of... -
Brendan Gleeson joined Melbourne University in January 2012 as Professor of Urban Policy Studies and then took on the directorship of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute in early 2013... -
Dr Rachel Hughes is a cultural and political geographer with wide-ranging interests in the geographies of law, geopolitics, social memory and visual and material cultures. Her prior research has... -
Dr Murray Peel is a Senior Research Fellow and ARC Future Fellow in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He has a PhD (Geography) and a BSc (Hons) from the... -
Dr Andre Stephan has expertise in the built environment, sustainability, life cycle assessment, computer modelling and energy efficiency. His research focuses on life cycle environmental assessment... -
Dr. Witold-Roger Poganietz is Head of the Research Field “Energy - resources, technologies, systems”, Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology... -
Professor Jon Barnett is not available for supervision Jon is Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Geography at Melbourne University. He is a political geographer... -
Prof Ove Hoegh-Guldberg is the inaugural Director of the Global Change Institute and Professor of Marine Science at the University of Queensland. Prof Hoegh-Guldberg is deeply-motivated by a desire... -
I am a geographer whose research examines human-environment relations, both conceptual and material. That is, I want to understand how humans have physically changed earth’s systems, how we think... -
Expertise: electromobility Environmental economics, climate change and road traffic modeling Econometrics -
Janet Stanley is a Principal Research Fellow - Urban Social Resilience at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, visiting Professor at the University of Hiroshima, Japan, a Director of the... -
Dr Lisa Palmer is a human geographer who teaches and researches on human-environment relations and indigenous approaches to environmental and social governance. Her research takes a critical... -
Kevin Walsh is a professor in the School of Earth Sciences. He specialises in tropical meteorology, climate change and climate variability. -
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Dr. Möhler is the Scientific director of AIDA cloud chamber facility and deputy director IMK-AAF, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. His expertise are in atmospheric aerosol processes,... -
Jens Schippl is Senior Scientist, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Jens' research focus is around sociotechnical processes of... -
Matthias is a postdoctoral researcher at Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). He received a Phd in Climate Physics from Potsdam University and PIK. He holds a M.Sc. in Physics from... -
Dr Michael Stewardson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at The University of Melbourne. He is involved with the Departmental Research Group in Environmental... -
Patrick Baker is an ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology in the Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science, Melbourne School of Land and Environment, at the... -
Dr Andrew King is a Lecturer in Climate Science and ARC DECRA fellow in the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne. He completed his PhD in Climate Science at UNSW in 2015 and previously... -
Professor Dianne Vella-Brodrick (PhD) holds the Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology and is Deputy Director and Head of Research at the Centre for Positive Psychology at the Melbourne Graduate... -
Professor Green holds a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture and an interdisciplinary Doctorate in landscape planning/design and environmental psychology... -
Research activities Processes of ecosystem and land use system change Environmental health Urban ecology and geochemistry Aerosol mineralogy and chemistry Freshwater biogeochemistry Soil mineralogy... -
Dr Jason N E Varuhas (BA LLB (Hons) VUW, LLM UCL, PhD Cambridge) is Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, and Co-Director of Studies for the Government Law and Public and International... -
Expertise: Applied Statistics (Environmental Analysis, Bayesian Modelling) Ecological Modelling (Populations, Landscapes) Freshwater Ecology (Environmental Flows) -
Dr. Rebekka Volk is Group Leader for Project and Resource Management in the Built Environment, Institute for Industrial Production. Her research includes: Project management under uncertainty,... -
Dr Roger Dargaville is a senior lecturer at Monash University. Roger was the Deputy Director of the Melbourne Energy Institute and Research Fellow in the School of Earth Sciences, The University of... -
Dr Schofield is a lecturer for Climate System Science in the School of Earth sciences. Her recent research encompasses many areas of atmospheric chemistry, such as the Southern Hemisphere climate... -
Stephan Winter is Professor for Spatial Information Science in the Department of Infrastructure Engineeering at The University of Melbourne. Research Interests Intelligent transportation and urban... -
Daniel was previously Fellow in Global Politics in the Department of Government, London School of Economics, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sussex, and Lecturer in Security Studies in... -
Dr Meenakshi Arora is a Senior Lecturer and E Learning coordinator in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at The University of Melbourne. She teaches Water and Waste Water Management,... -
Prof. Dr. Frank Schultmann is Director of the Institute for Industrial Production (IIP) and of the French-German Institute for Environmental Research (DFIU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technoology. He is...
Web tools and Projects we developed
Open-NEM
The live tracker of the Australian electricity market.
Paris Equity Check
This website is based on a Nature Climate Change study that compares Nationally Determined Contributions with equitable national emissions trajectories in line with the five categories of equity outlined by the IPCC.
liveMAGICC Climate Model
Run one of the most popular reduced-complexity climate carbon cycle models online. Used by IPCC, UNEP GAP reports and numerous scientific publications.
NDC & INDC Factsheets
Check out our analysis of all the post-2020 targets that countries announced under the Paris Agreement.