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Neville Nicholls

Professor emeritus, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University

Professor Neville Nicholls spent 35 years in climate research in the Bureau of Meteorology before joining Monash University in 2006 where he is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment. He has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, on the nature, causes, predictability and impacts of Australian and global climate variations and changes. Neville is a past President of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, and was an editor of the journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, and of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate. He was a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report “Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation” that was completed in 2011. Neville is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and of the American Geophysical Union.

Experience

  • 2015–present
    Professor emeritus, Monash University
  • 2006–2014
    Professor, Monash University
  • 1971–2005
    Researcher, Bureau of Meteorology

Education

  • 1985 
    RMIT, MBA
  • 1983 
    University of Melbourne, PhD/Meteorology

Research Areas

  • Atmospheric Sciences (0401)
  • Climate Change Processes (040104)
  • Climatology (Excl. Climate Change Processes) (040105)
  • Meteorology (040107)