Of course all this research would not be possible without a team of researchers (mostly postdocs & PhD students) to do the work. The team includes researchers that I supervise/co-supervise, often in collaboration with other faculty members of the Climate Change Research Centre, the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and elsewhere.

You can also see the thesis topics of past students.

Postdocs

	Dr Clemente Lopez Bravo Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Clemente is examing the impact of climate change on transportation systems in NSW. Email: c.lopez_bravo@unsw.edu.au
	Dr Md Imran Hosen Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Imran is researching various aspects of the way we simulate climate extremes with regional climate models, and how these extremes are projected to change in the future. Email: m.hosen@unsw.edu.au
	Dr Abhirup Dikshit Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Abhirup is investigating how the large burn scars left after major fires impacts the subsequent local climate, which in turn impacts the recovery of the vegetation post-fire. Email: a.dikshit@unsw.edu.au
	Dr Moutassem El Rafei Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Moutassem is exploring the mechanisms causing extreme wind gusts and how these depend on the large scale atmospheric environment. Email: m.el_rafei@unsw.edu.au
	Dr Anjana Devanand Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Anjana is examing the predictability of drought breaking rains and the influence of sub-surface lateral flow of water on local climate. Email: anjana.devanand@unsw.edu.au
	Dr Chris Thomas Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Chris is running regional climate models at high resolution to improve our simulation of future climate including climate extremes. Email: c.thomas@unsw.edu.au

Students

	Ying Lung Liu (Alex) Ph.D. student Alex is exploring the Indian ocean influence on Australian rainfall. Email:ying_lung.liu@unsw.edu.au
	Greeshma Surendran Ph.D. student Greeshma is investigating various aspects of extreme wind gusts including how they might change with climate change. Email:g.surendran@unsw.edu.au
	Caleb Wilson Ph.D. student Caleb is investigating the environmental conditions that cause pyrocumulonimbus events (Fire generated thunderstorms). Email:caleb.wilson@adfa.edu.au
	Xinyue Zhang Ph.D. student Xinyue is investigating the changes in dryland vegetation that are projected to happen over coming decades due to climate change. She is investigating the different impacts of climate change and land management on dryland vegetation. Email:xinyue.zhang20@unsw.edu.au
	Katie Quail Ph.D. student Katie is investigating climate change related opportunities and impacts for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Mostly looking at the potential for renewable energy deployment on indigenous lands and "right-way" or cultural burning for carbon credits. Email:k.quail@unsw.edu.au
	Aditya Deshmukh Ph.D. student Aditya is examing how climate change is impacting coastal erosion on the Australian east coast. Email:a.deshmukh@unsw.edu.au
	Alejandra Isaza Uribe Ph.D. student Alejandra is looking at climate change impacts on future solar energy production, particularly the role of changing aerosols. Email:a.isaza@unsw.edu.au
	Sandra Koenigseder Ph.D. student Sandra is examining changes in Alaskan glaciers over the last century. Email:skk446@uowmail.edu.au
	Shukla Poddar Ph.D. student Shukla is studying how climate change will impact solar energy production in Australia. She is looking at how different aspects of the climate will impact the efficiency of individual solar cells. Email:s.poddar@unsw.edu.au
	Youngil Kim Ph.D. student Youngil is working to improve methods used to correct Regional Climate Model boundary conditions before they are used to simulate the climate. Email:youngil.kim@student.unsw.edu.au
	Tony Rafter Ph.D. student Tony is examining our ability to simulate short duration (minutes to hours) rainfall and how extremes at these durations might change in the future. Email:Tony.Rafter@csiro.au

Past Postdocs

	Sanaa Hobiechi Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Sanaa is working to improve our understanding of drought and how we can predict it.
	Dr Annette Hirsch Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Annette is working on heatwaves: what causes them to intensify? What role does the land surface play? How will they change in a future warmer climate? She has worked previously worked on various land-atmosphere coupling problems.
	Dr Giovanni Di Virgilio Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Giovanni is working on regional climate modeling and the study of climate change at regional scales. He has previously worked on the pollution implication of prescribed fires among other things.
No photo available	Dr Adrian Barker Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Adrian is working on future climate change implications for city water demand.
	Dr Alejandro di Luca Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Alejandro investigates regional climate modeling and the study of climate change at regional scales. He uses regional models to investigate the development of storm systems including the influence of local topography and sea surface temperatures.
	Dr Mark Decker Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Mark's research focuses on the land surface and its interaction with the atmosphere. Specifically his interests include using land models in conjunction with in-situ and remotely sensed measurements to study the impact of land processes on weather and climate, the development of land models focusing on improving the representation of the various physical processes, and the impact on climate due to both natural and anthropogenic changes in the land surface. Currently he is identifying regions in Australia where groundwater has a significant impact on climate through the use of models and remotely sensed data.
	Dr Yi Liu Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Liu's research interest is in using satellite-based observations to investigate the hydrological cycle e.g., precipitation, evaporation, soil moisture, vegetation water content and ground�water storage, for enhanced understanding of interactions between different hydrological components.
	Dr Hoori Ajami Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Hoori's main area of expertise is in Catchment Hydrology and Spatial Analysis, with experience in the areas of groundwater recharge, surface water-groundwater interactions, riparian evapotranspiration, and GIS custom application development for hydrological models. Current research interests also include application of integrated hydrological models to characterize surface water/groundwater/atmospheric interactions, assessing climate change impacts on groundwater recharge in mountainous catchments of semi-arid basins, and application of isotope and remote sensing data in characterizing hydrologic cycle.
	Dr Roman Olson Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Roman investigated regional climate modeling and the study of climate change at regional scales. His other research interests include climate parameter estimation based on model-data fusion, Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, internal climate variability, and Gaussian Process emulators.
	Dr Daniel Argueso Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Daniel investigated regional climate modeling and the study of climate change at regional scales. He uses regional models to generate high-resolution projections of climate change and explore its implications on precipitation and temperature, particularly in terms of extreme events.
No photo available	Dr Xianghong Meng Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Xianhong's research focused on the land-surface feedback to the atmosphere during the onset and development of drought.
	Dr Claire Carouge Research Associate Claire's research focused on coupling a land surface model with a regional atmospheric circulation model to better understand actual and future Australian climate at regional scales.
	Dr James Gilmore Post-Doctoral Research Fellow James is interested in atmospheric physics--in particular, precipitation physics and how this relates to changes in climate. He uses cloud-resolving models to understand precipitation processes and extremes, with a focus on precipitation over Australia. His background is in theoretical physics, and he employs methods from this field in his research.

Past Students

	Hooman Ayat Ph.D. student Hooman is using weather radar and satellite data to quantify a variety of storm characteristics like intensity, size, shape, orientation, travel speed. He is investigating how these properties appear in different observing systems, how they have been changing in time and how they are related to temperature changes.
	Max Kulinich Ph.D. student Max is examing mathematical techniques to "optimally" combine simulations in climate model ensembles to provide the most informative projections.
	Sanaa Hobiechi Ph.D. student Sanaa developed and analyzed an optimised multi-data source surface water and energy cycle datasets.
	Arden Burrell Ph.D. student Arden used a combination of satellite and climate data to monitor dryland degradation and desertification processes.
	Xi Chen Ph.D. student Xi was comparing and combining the new satellite-based microwave obsservations with traditional optical observations, to see if it can help us better understand the dynamics of vegetation. In order to answer this question, bushfires in Australia, croplands in China and deforestation activities in tropical areas will be investigated.
	Chris Thomas Ph.D. student Chris was investigating coupled atmosphere-fire phenomena and modelling.
	Chiara Holgate Ph.D. student Chiara was investigating the strength of the land-atmosphere coupling over Australia and its role in drought.
	Wasin Chaivaranont Ph.D. student Wasin was investigating the use of passive microwave remote sensing data to inform bushfire fuel and moisture estimates..
	Acacia Pepler Ph.D. student Acacia was studying East Coast Lows, the physical mechanisms affecting their evolution, and their likely future changes due to global warming.
	Ditiro Moalafhi Ph.D. student Ditiro was creating a regional climate reanalysis for Southern Africa for use in hydrology studies.
	Eytan Rocheta Ph.D. student Eytan was investigating the benefit of bias-correcting lateral boundary conditions for regional climate simulations.
No photo available	Jingwan Li Ph.D. student Jingwan was exploring the climate change impact on Intensity-Frequency-Duration curves for design rainfall
	Dr Yi Liu Ph.D. Student Yi's thesis was titled "Using Satellite Based Microwave Observations to Characterise Land Surface Hydrology." Yi won the Malcolm Chaikin Prize for best PhD thesis in Engineering at UNSW for his thesis.
	Kat Bormann Ph.D. Student Kat's thesis was titled "Snowpack Characteristics And Modelling In The Marginal Snowfields Of Southeast Australia."
	Ali Ershadi Esmaeilabadi Ph.D. student Ali's thesis was titled "Evapotranspiration: Application, Scaling and Uncertainty."
	Hamish Clarke Ph.D. student Hamish's thesis was titled "The impact of climate change on bushfire weather conditions and fuel load."